Scientific Foundations of Clinical Assessment

Stephen N Haynes is an Emeritus Professor of Psychology at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa in Clinical Psychology. Dr. Haynes was previously the Director of Clinical Psychology and Department Chair in psychology. He was editor of the APA journal Psychological Assessment, has served on 14 editorial boards, and has published 8 books and 130 articles and chapters on clinical assessment and psychopathology. Gregory T Smith is a Professor of Psychology and University Research Professor at the University of Kentucky. He has published over 200 research articles and book chapters, the majority of which focus on clinical psychological assessment. He served for 12 years as the director of the doctoral program in clinical psychology at the University of Kentucky and is now Chair of the Psychology Department there.John Hunsley is a Professor of Psychology and Director of the Clinical Psychology Program in the School of Psychology at the University of Ottawa. He published over 130 articles, chapters, and books related to assessment, evidence-based practice, and professional issues in psychology.

“Measurement is arguably the most foundational task in a science—and one of the most complex. These complexities are too often ignored in clinical science and practice and as a result misinformation is created and promulgated. This well written, comprehensive, and practical book is an important corrective. The authors are leading scholars in behavioral assessment and psychometrics and write in a clear and integrative manner that provides readers with thorough understanding of the complexities of measurement in clinical psychology.”William O'Donohue, Ph.D., Professor, University of Nevada, Reno“Scientific Foundations of Clinical Assessment is a tour-de-force! For many years no credible graduate program in clinical psychology would fail to include Wiggin’s seminal text, Personality and Prediction, in their clinical assessment course. The same should now be said with respect to this text by Stephen Haynes, Greg Smith, and John Hunsley. Clinical assessment is a very difficult enterprise, riddled with confusing and complex psychometric and statistical principles. This text by Haynes and colleagues is wonderfully rich and comprehensive, yet presented in a very user-friendly manner that the average clinician and student can readily follow and fully appreciate”Thomas A. Widiger, Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, Editor: Annual Review of Clinical Psychology and Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment

• PrefaceChapter 1: Introduction to the Scientific Foundations of Clinical AssessmentChapter 2: Reliability of Clinical Assessment MeasuresChapter 3: Validity of Clinical Assessment MeasuresChapter 4: Applying Psychometric Evidence to Clinical JudgmentsChapter 5: How to Evaluate Commonly Used Statistical Methods and Outcomes In Clinical Assessment ResearchChapter 6: The Contributions of Factor Analysis to Clinical AssessmentChapter 7: The Utility of Science-Based Clinical AssessmentChapter 8: The Conditional and Dynamic Nature of Psychometric EvidenceChapter 9: Using Data from Multiple Sources in Clinical AssessmentAppendix: The Importance of Content Validity in the Development of Clinical Assessment Instruments Glossary of Terms and Concepts in the Scientific Foundations of Clinical AssessmentReferencesAuthor IndexSubject Index