Research and Markets: Essentials of WAIS-IV Assessment

DUBLIN-(Business Wire)-September 24, 2009 - Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/1a3f80/essentials_of_wais) has announced the addition of John Wiley and Sons Ltd's new report "Essentials of WAIS-IV Assessment" to their offering.

Essentials of WAIS-IV Assessment:

Complete coverage of administration, scoring,interpretation, and reporting
Expert advice on avoiding common pitfalls
Conveniently formatted for rapid reference

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

Coauthored by Alan Kaufman, who was mentored by David Wechsler, the creator of the Wechsler scales, Essentials of WAIS-IV Assessment provides beginning and seasoned clinicians with comprehensive step-by-step guidelines to administering, scoring, and interpreting this latest revision of the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale.

Like all the volumes in the Essentials of Psychological Assessment series, this book is designed to help busy mental health practitioners 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.

Offering a clinically rich and innovative theory-based interpretive system, as well as a neuro-psychologically based interpretive approach articulated in detail by Dr. George McCloskey in an invited chapter, this book offers state-of-the-art interpretation of the most popular intelligence test for adults. In addition, the book is packaged with an accompanying 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 the best and most authoritative resource of information on this test.

Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.

Key Topics Covered:

Preface: Dr. Wechsler Remembered
Acknowledgments
One Introduction and Overview
Two How to Administer the WAIS-IV
Three How to Score the WAIS-IV
Four How to Interpret the WAIS-IV: Conceptual and Clinical Foundations
Five How to Interpret the WAIS-IV: Step-by-Step
Six Clinical Applications I: A Neuropsychological Approach to Interpretation of the WAIS-IV and the Use of the WAIS-IV in Learning Disability Assessments
Seven Clinical Applications II: Age and Intelligence across the Adult Life Span
Eight Clinical Applications III: WAIS-IV Use with Special Groups and Practice Effects in Normal Samples
Nine Strengths and Weaknesses of the WAIS-IV
Ten Illustrative Case Reports
References
Annotated Bibliography
About the Authors
Index
About the CD-ROM