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How to Write and Evaluate Psychological Reports

:	Karl Westhoff, Marie-Luise Kluck
:	How to Write and Evaluate Psychological Reports
:	Pabst Science Publishers
:	9783899677737
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:	CHF 40.70
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:	Angewandte Psychologie
:	English

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How to Write and Evaluate Psychological Reports is the English translation of the 5th revised and extended edition published in German in 2008. The 1st edition was published in 1991.EssentialThis book has a unique approach to its subject. It integrates scientific theory and methodological knowledge in psychology to provide help with the complex process of writing psychological reports. Basic and AdvancedAll German-speaking countries use this book as a primary reference work in basic and graduate university courses. It is also used in advanced courses on psychological assessment and in training on how to write psychological reports. InstructiveThanks to its clarity of expression, its structure that follows the assessment process step by step, and its reader-friendly layout (e.g. colored advanced organizers for each sub-chapter), the book is easy for all students of psychology to understand and to work with.ChecklistsThe rules of decision-oriented assessment methodology are summarized in 37 checklists (Chapter 23). User feedback generally confirms these checklists as being very helpful in the assessment routine.A complete psychological report in the field of personnel psychology illustrates psychological assessment using the decision-oriented method. This example can, in a broader sense, also be read as a case study of vocational rehabilitation.Non-psychologi ts who want to or have to evaluate psychological reports (especially lawyers) frequently asked for support in understanding such reports. They will find special help in Chapter 22 and in corresponding checklists in Chapter 24.ReferencesThe current edition follows the“Guidelines for the Assessment Process” of the European Association of Psychological Assessment. The 3rd edition served as a major source for these guidelines.The German Federal Court of Justice (Bundesgerichtshof) cited the book in a very important judgment on the psychological assessment of the credibility of witnesses´ accounts.Lawyers appreciate psychological reports based on the decision-orientated method because of their structure and clarity. Many confirm the usefulness of the book’s special aids and checklists for evaluating such reports.

	Contents	7
	Chapter 1 Introduction	13
	1.1 Goals	13
	1.2 Overview	14
	1.3 Notes on using this book	16
	Chapter 2 Fundamentals of our approach	17
	2.1 Decision-oriented psychological assessment	17
	2.2 Our view of psychology	20
	2.3 Goals of decision-oriented assessment	21
	2.4 Conditions for psychological assessment	22
	2.5 General criteria for evaluating psychological reports	24
	Chapter 3 The client’s question	26
	3.1 Deciding for or against a client’s question	26
	3.2 Required assumptions	28
	3.3 Requirement profile	29
	3.4 Required knowledge for assessment work	31
	3.5 Prediction of individual behavior	32
	3.6 Citing the client’s question in the psychological report	33
	Chapter 4 Selection of variables	34
	4.1 Behavioral equation	34
	4.2 Environment variables	36
	4.3 Organism variables	37
	4.4 Cognitive variables	39
	4.5 Emotional variables	41
	4.6 Motivational variables	43
	4.7 Social variables	45
	4.8 Three classes of information for the explanation and prediction of	46
	4.9 Criteria for the selection of variables	47
	Chapter 5 Psychological Questions (= Hypotheses)	49
	5.1 The function of psychological questions	49
	5.2 Constructing psychological questions	50
	5.3 Formulating psychological questions	50
	5.4 Number of psychological questions	52
	Chapter 6 Workthrough of example clients’ questions	54
	6.1 Client‘s question	54
	6.2 Information available before the beginning of the assessment	55
	6.3 Requirement profile	56
	6.4 Psychological questions	57
	6.4.1 Grouping the psychological questions according to the behavioral equation	57
	6.4.2 Psychological questions relating to motivational conditions	58
	6.4.3 Psychological questions relating to intellectual conditions	58
	6.4.4 Psychological questions relating to the ability to withstand emotional and physical strain	58
	6.4.5 Psychological questions relating to social conditions	59
	6.4.6 Alternative ways of structuring psychological questions	60
	6.4.7 Decision-oriented construction of hypotheses for judicial questions regarding parental custody	60
	6.4.7.1 Goals of decision-oriented assessment in custody questions	60
	6.4.7.2 The requirement profile	61
	6.4.7.3 Selection of the relevant variables	63
	6.4.7.4 The formulation of psychological questions	63
	6.4.7.5 Shortened psychological questions	66
	Chapter 7 Planning the assessment	67
	7.1 Role of the assessment plan	67
	7.2 Broad plan of the assessment	68
	7.3 Detailed plan of the assessment	69
	7.4 Ratio of costs to benefits as a criterion for planning a	70
	Chapter 8 Analysis of the a-priori strategy	72
	8.1 Analysis of the a-priori strategy for single-case questions	72
	8.2 Qualitative analysis of the a-priori strategy	73
	8.3 Optimizing the assessment strategy	74
	8.4 Quantitative analysis of the a-priori strategy for institutional	75
	8.5 Analysis of the a-priori strategy for institutional questions	75
	Chapter 9 Features of assessment information sources	77
	9.1 Functions of the features of assessment information sources	77
	9.2 Nature of the observer	78
	9.3 Contents of the observation	80
	9.4 Time and duration of the observation	81
	9.5 Nature of the observation	82
	Chapter 10 Standardized assessment procedures	84
	10.1 Criteria for the selection of standardized assessment procedures	84
	10.2 A theory definition for psychological work	85
	10.3 Functions of theories for assessment procedures	86
	10.4 Objectivity of standardized procedures	87
	10.4.1 Objectivity in execution	87
	10.4.2 Measures for increasing the objectivity in execution	88
	10.4.3 Objectivity in scoring	89
	10.4.4 Objectivity of interpretation	91
	10.5 Reliability of standardized procedures	93
	10.5.1 Deciding on a type of reliability	94
	10.5.2 Evaluating the reliability	94
	10.6 Validity of standardized procedures	95
	10.7 Some comments on the size of valid