Name: Essentials of WAIS-IV Assessment 2. Edition
Author: Elizabeth O. Lichtenberger (Author), Alan S. Kaufman (Author)
ISBN: 9781118271889

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Essentials of WAIS-IV Assessment 2. Edition

Author(s): Elizabeth O. Lichtenberger (Author), Alan S. Kaufman (Author)

Publisher: Wiley
Publication Date: 14 Nov. 2012
Edition: 2.
Language: English
Print length: 512 pages
ISBN-10: 1118271882
ISBN-13: 9781118271889

Book Description

Quickly acquire the knowledge and skills you need to confidently administer, score, and interpret the WAIS-IV.

Providing a clinically rich and innovative theory-based interpretive system, this book offers state-of-the-art interpretation of the most popular intelligence test for adults. In addition, the book is packaged with a CD-ROM containing scoring tables, case report material, worksheets, and a user-friendly software program that fully automates the interpretive system, making Essentials of WAIS-IV Assessment, Second Edition, the best and most authoritative resource of information on this test.

Updated with all of the new research, reviews, and interpretive guidelines:
* Incorporates new research findings on the psychometric quality and clinical utility of the WAIS-IV
* The interpretive system is greatly enhanced by offering the new five-factor CHC approach for ages 16-90 years
* Includes important new insights about administering and scoring subtests
* Includes new chapter on the latest WAIS-IV innovation--Q-interactive(TM)--that allows clinicians to administer WAIS-IV digitally
* Includes information about interpretation across different cultural and linguistic groups
* Provides important new coverage of the Flynn Effect

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The updated CD-ROM contains scoring tables, case report material, worksheets, and a user-friendly software program that fully automates the interpretive system.

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Quickly acquire the knowledge and skills you need to confidently administer, score, and interpret the WAIS^®-IV

Coauthored by Alan S. Kaufman, who was mentored by David Wechsler—the creator of the Wechsler scales—Essentials of WAIS^®-IV Assessment, Second Edition is thoroughly revised and updated to provide beginning and seasoned clinicians with comprehensive step-by-step guidelines for effective use of the WAIS^®-IV. This invaluable guide provides clinicians with a brand new interpretive process, overhauling its system of profile interpretation to be equally powerful across the entire WAIS^®-IV age range.

Like all the volumes in the Essentials of Psychological Assessment series, this book is designed to help busy mental health professionals quickly acquire the basic knowledge and skills they need to make optimal use of a major psychological assessment instrument. Each concise chapter features numerous callout boxes highlighting key concepts, bulleted points, and extensive illustrative material, as well as test questions that help you gauge and reinforce your grasp of the information covered.

The new edition explores timely topics including gender and ethnic differences, as well as the role of the Flynn Effect in capital punishment court cases. Along with an accompanying Website containing scoring tables and case report material, the Second Edition includes information and advice on how to administer Q-interactive^™—the new digital version of the test—for administration of the WAIS^®-IV via iPad^® Essentials of Assessment Report Writing
Essentials of WISC^®-IV Assessment, Second Edition
Essentials of WMS^®-IV Assessment
Essentials of Cross-Battery Assessment, Third Edition
Essentials of WJ III^™ Tests of Achievement Assessment
Essentials of WJ III^™ Cognitive Abilities Assessment, Second Edition
Essentials of Neuropsychological Assessment, Second Edition
Visit us on the Web at: wiley.com/psychology

From the Back Cover

Quickly acquire the knowledge and skills you need to confidently administer, score, and interpret the WAIS^®-IV

Coauthored by Alan S. Kaufman, who was mentored by David Wechsler―the creator of the Wechsler scales―Essentials of WAIS^®-IV Assessment, Second Edition is thoroughly revised and updated to provide beginning and seasoned clinicians with comprehensive step-by-step guidelines for effective use of the WAIS^®-IV. This invaluable guide provides clinicians with a brand new interpretive process, overhauling its system of profile interpretation to be equally powerful across the entire WAIS^®-IV age range.

The new edition explores timely topics including gender and ethnic differences, as well as the role of the Flynn Effect in capital punishment court cases. Along with an accompanying Website containing scoring tables and case report material, the Second Edition includes information and advice on how to administer Q-interactive^™―the new digital version of the test―for administration of the WAIS^®-IV via iPad^® Essentials of Assessment Report Writing
Essentials of WISC^®-IV Assessment, Second Edition
Essentials of WMS^®-IV Assessment
Essentials of Cross-Battery Assessment, Third Edition
Essentials of WJ III^™ Tests of Achievement Assessment
Essentials of WJ III^™ Cognitive Abilities Assessment, Second Edition
Essentials of Neuropsychological Assessment, Second Edition
Visit us on the Web at: wiley.com/psychology

About the Author

ELIZABETH O. LICHTENBERGER, PHD, is a licensed clinical psychologist residing in Carlsbad, California. She has coauthored several Essentials books, including Essentials of Assessment Report Writing (with Nancy Mather, Nadeen Kaufman, and Alan Kaufman). She and Alan Kaufman are coauthors of Assessing Adolescent and Adult Intelligence, now in its third edition.

ALAN S. KAUFMAN, PHD, a leading expert on intelligence testing, is Clinical Professor of Psychology at the Child Study Center at the Yale University School of Medicine. His books, tests, and intelligent testing approach have had worldwide impact on clinical assessment. Dr. Kaufman’s approach to test interpretation and his tests―such as KABC-II and KTEA-II, which he co-created with Nadeen Kaufman―reflect an integration of psychometric, theoretical, and clinical perspectives. Alan and Nadeen are the Series Editors of Wiley’s Essentials of Psychological Assessment series.

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