Essentials of WAIS-IV Assessment (Essentials of Psychological Assessment) [Paperback]
Author: Alan S. Kaufman | Language: English | ISBN: 1118271882 | Format: PDF, EPUB
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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 toprovide 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 CD-ROM 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®.
Other titles in the Essentials of Psychological Assessment series:
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
- Series: Essentials of Psychological Assessment (Book 96)
- Paperback: 478 pages
- Publisher: Wiley; 2 edition (December 4, 2012)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1118271882
- ISBN-13: 978-1118271889
- Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.5 x 1.4 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
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Preface to the Second Edition xiii
Acknowledgments xvii
One Introduction and Overview 1
Two How to Administer the WAIS-IV 53
Three How to Score the WAIS-IV 98
Four How to Interpret the WAIS-IV: Conceptual and Clinical Foundations 119
Five How to Interpret the WAIS-IV: Step-by-Step 150
Six Clinical Applications I: A Neuropsychological Approach to Interpretation of the WAIS-IV and the Use of the WAIS-IV in Learning Disability Assessments 216
George McCloskey, Emily S. Hartz, and Katherine Scipioni
Seven Clinical Applications II: Age and Intelligence Across the Adult Life Span 254
Eight Clinical Applications III: WAIS-IV Use With Special Groups, Practice Effects, and Gender Differences 299
Nine Strengths and Weaknesses of the WAIS-IV 332
Ron Dumont and John O. Willis
Ten Illustrative Case Reports 353
Eleven The Initial Digital Adaptation of the WAIS-IV 389
Tommie G. Cayton, Dustin Wahlstrom, and Mark H. Daniel
References 427
Annotated Bibliography 445
About the Authors 448
Author Index 449
Subject Index 455
About the CD-ROM 472
The Essentials series continues, this time for WAIS-IV. Comprehensive, thoughtful, and based on good theory and research, the authors cover every aspect of WAIS-IV construction, administration, and interpretation. PLUS... there is a bonus this time.... a CD with software to do all the STEPS calculations for you! Wish we could get this for WISC-IV. Highly recommended for clinicians using the WAIS-IV.By Robert L. Spray Jr.
I ordered this book hoping to get assistance in making sense of the large amount of data generated by administering and scoring the test, following my first administration. One attraction of the book was that it comes with a CD program that interprets the data, once you have calculated and entered the standard scores. I wrongly assumed that the program would do automatically what the test manual prescribes for hand-scoring. (The publisher's available scoring program is rather expensive for the number of tests I administer.)By Sherry
I had some difficulty opening the program, getting error messages. I contacted Wiley IT support and they were helpful in solving the problem.
I had started writing my report before I received the book. When I ran the test scores through the program, for comparison, I soon realized that some of the interpretation methodology differed from that described in the WAIS-IV manual. For example, the criteria for determining if there are significant differences between subtests within an index, (which according to the book renders an index "not interpretable") are different. The method in the book has a higher numeric level required for significant differences.
That led to some confusion on my part on how to and whether to combine the two approaches or stick with one, which I finally resolved by determining which was more helpful for making recommendations for the client.
If you are comfortable with the various statistical underpinnings of test interpretation and want to do in-depth interpretation, you will probably like this book. It offers an alternative, 5-index approach called the Keith method, in addition to the WAIS 4-index approach. It also offers additional clinical clusters based on various theoretical models of intelligence.
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