author: michel hersen

Progress in Behavior Modification

... read. In the language of the schools, they decoded well from visual stimuli to sounds, but they did not “comprehend ... following passage: “The dog chased the cat up a tree. The cat ran as fast as it could.” After reading the passage ...

Encyclopedia of Behavior Modification and Cognitive Behavior Therapy

... a form of meditation called mindfulness meditation has been gaining popularity in recent years. Mindfulness meditation teaches an individual to be fully present in each moment, to be aware of his or her thoughts, feelings, and ...

International Handbook of Behavior Modification and Therapy: Second Edition

... following behavioral treatment . Since de- pression was not measured , its ... therapy in reducing ruminations but not in ame- liorating rituals . However , no ... advantage shown by self - exposure after 7 weeks was lost at the 15 - week ...

Handbook of Behavior Therapy in the Psychiatric Setting

... Symptom Checklist - 90 ( SCL - 90 ) , an instrument designed to gauge acute symptom severity on nine clinical scales . Two additional self - report measures provide clinical information , in varying degrees , about both acute ...

Future Perspectives in Behavior Therapy

... behavior therapies of depression . Such a “ manipulations check " for a given ... following types of questions of the tape samples : Do patients improve more ... advantage of the knowledge gained about what therapists do that is or is not ...

Encyclopedia of Behavior Modification and Cognitive Behavior Therapy: Volume I: Adult Clinical Applications Volume II: Child Clinical Applications Volume III: Educational Applications

... goals and objectives. Because Angela is only 7 years old, the team does not have to address transition services in Angela's IEP ... writing. The IEP team includes a statement on Angela's IEP explaining that ... measurable IEP goals and ...

Clinician's Handbook of Child Behavioral Assessment

... assessment methods include interviews, questionnaires, and observational procedures (i.e., analogue functional analysis). Interviews Although completing an unstructured functional assessment interview is feasible and common, specific ...

Handbook of Psychological Assessment, Case Conceptualization, and Treatment: Children and adolescents

... techniques is the scheduling of reinforcement delivery . In general , the ... self - injurious behavior , failure of less restrictive treatment options ... spanking ) is generally regarded as having the most potential for harm to the ...

Handbook of Clinical Psychology, Volume 1: Adults

... test, the Rotter Incomplete Sentences Blank (RISB; Rotter, Lah, & Rafferty, 1992), include: “I dislike ..., The fondest time ..., I wonder about ..., Where I was raised ...” Subjects complete this test by filling in 40 sentence stems. The ...

Handbook of Clinical Psychology, Volume 2: Children and Adolescents

... Beck, J. S., Beck, A. T., & Jolly, J. (2001). Beck Youth Inventories of Emotional and Social Impairment manual. San ... Inventory: Is it valid and reliable for Mexican American youth? Journal of Personality Assessment, 83, 64–74. Boggs ...

Understanding Psychological Assessment

Understanding Psychological Assessment includes cognitive and personality tests for adults, children, and adolescents, as well as chapters on the theory of psychological measurement and integrated report writing.

Handbook of Adolescent Psychopathology: A Guide to Diagnosis and Treatment

... Report Inventories Self - report inventories typically involve asking adolescents to evaluate their own social behavior . The use of self - report inventories with adolescents has been restricted mainly to descriptive research relating ...

Handbook of Psychological Approaches with Violent Offenders: Contemporary Strategies and Issues

... violence risk management approaches . ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Preparation of this chapter was ... Monica , CA : Rand . Chermack , S. T. , & Taylor , S. P. ( 1995 ) Alcohol ... Martin ( Ed . ) , Alcohol and interpersonal violence : Fostering ...

Handbook of Psychological Assessment

... test. Indian Psychological Review, 22, 9–1 1. Reschly, D. J. (1984). Aptitude ... Items, 4 (2), 1–4. Reynolds, C. R., & Brown, R.T. (1984). Bias in mental ... sample as a function of the stratification variables. Journal of School Psychology ...

Introduction to Clinical Psychology

Lynda A. Heiden, Michel Hersen. MMPI - 2 AND MMPI - A . We have already ... test . Norms for the MMPI were based on a standardization sample consisting ... questions pertaining to religious beliefs , sexual orientation , and excretory ...

Handbook of Psychological Assessment, Case Conceptualization, and Treatment, Volume 1: Adults

... 10 years, because wehave had new machines thathave allowed usto look where no humans havelooked before, we have focused almost exclusively on the brain and on brain chemistry ... chapter, with some exceptions, ignore whathistorically ...

Handbook of Psychological Assessment, Case Conceptualization, and Treatment, Volume 2: Children and Adolescents

Edited by recognized experts Michel Hersen and David Reitman, Handbook of Psychological Assessment, Case Conceptualization, and Treatment, Volume 2, Children and Adolescents, is a thorough and practical reference for those working with ...

Progress in Behavior Modification

... Zelnik, M., & Kantner, J. F. First pregnancies to women aged 15–19, 1971 and 1976. Family Planning Perspectives, 1978, 10, 11–20. Zelnik, M., & Kantner, J. F. Reasons for nonuse of contraception by sexually active women aged 15–19 ...

Issues in the Psychology of Women

... PREGNANCY Pregnancy is a major life event that affects many important ... developmental transition. Are there particular milestones that most women ... tasks. The tasks of pregnancy have been described in different ways (Rubin, 1984 ...

Behavioral Assessment: A Practical Handbook

... time - series data ( Farrell , 1991 ) . A number of computerized observation ... Hamilton , & Bornstein , 1986 ) . It is particularly useful for the ... analysis of self - monitor- ing data can also be facilitated because hand - held ...

Handbook of Clinical Interviewing With Children

... functional behavioral assessment. Functional assessment is based on the premise that challenging behavior is acquired through the basic principles of learning and that the behavior is purposeful and may have a communicative function ...

Handbook of Social Development: A Lifespan Perspective

... importance of interpersonal relation- ships in reaching decisions about moral issues . Gilligan argued that abstract conceptions of justice may not ultimately reflect the highest level of reasoning about moral conflicts . She described ...

Diagnostic Interviewing

Michel Hersen, Samuel M. Turner. Procedures for Gathering Information Assessment/Diagnostic Instruments Case Examples Diagnosis of Alcohol Problems Interviewing Strategies Summary References 8 Drug Abuse Description of the Disorders ...

Advanced Abnormal Psychology

... affectance.” Novickand Novick (1996), in amajor contribution, extended these findingsto thearea ofcompetence, mastery, and selfesteem. Accordingto the Novicks, thechild's real capacity to elicit appropriate responsesfrom thecaregiver is ...

Handbook of Conceptualization and Treatment of Child Psychopathology

... enuresis revealed that it had become a significant source of distress for ... true of Annalies, whose pediatrician evaluated her and found no evidence of ... report that enuretic children are extremely deep sleepers, but evidence does ...

Handbook of Clinical Geropsychology

... III , Axis II . New York : Wiley . Millon , T. ( 1983 ) . Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory . Minneapolis , MN : Interpretive Scoring Systems . Millon , T. ( 1987 ) . Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory II ( MCMI - II ) manual ...

Handbook of Clinical Interviewing With Adults

... intake report is the outcome of that initial evaluation and serves several ... example, “The client reports that he has been drinking six beers each night ... example, a student referred to the client's full name at the beginning of a ...

Basic Interviewing: A Practical Guide for Counselors and Clinicians

... example , " The client has been depressed for the past 2 months except for ... write this section primarily as observations and real information , rather than as conclusions . This gives the reader the raw ... MENTAL STATUS EXAMINATION 127.

Handbook of Family Violence

... Paper presented at the 17th Annual Convention of the Association for the ... Violence in intimate relationships . New York : Spectrum . Dutton , D. , & Painter ... Overview : The " wife - beater's wife " reconsidered . American Journal of ...

International Handbook of Behavior Modification and Therapy

... theory was proposed in 1950 by John Dollard , a so- ciologist , and Neal E. Miller , an experimental psychologist , who attempted to provide a com- prehensive theory of behavior that united learning , psychopathology , and psychother ...

Comprehensive Handbook of Psychological Assessment: Personality assessment

Clinicians and researchers who use these instruments will find this volume invaluable, as it contains the most comprehensive and up-to-date information available on this important aspect of practice.

Diagnostic Interviewing

... self-report data should not be dismissed but rather viewed as one source of information in a multimodal assessment of PDs. 10.2.1.1 Self-Report Inventories Self-report inventories have the potential to quantify the entire landscape of ...

Adult Psychopathology and Diagnosis

... side effects of SSRI use—namely delayed orgasm in men and women. Several dozen trials examining the efficacy of ... Masturbation exercises (Masters & Johnson, 1970) are designed to teach women to focus on sexually erotic cues, not focus ...

Adult Psychopathology and Diagnosis

... masturbation before attempting it with a partner. The efficacy of the ... side effects of SSRI use, namely delayed orgasm in men and women. Several ... side of the room and subsequently masturbates while moving progressively closer and ...

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