Course Adoption Books on Assessment and Testing

  • A Beginner's Guide to the MCMI-III

    APA guide book for the Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory-III.

  • A Beginner's Guide to the MMPI-2, Second Edition

    This updated book is aimed toward the nonpsychologist professional who needs a quick overview of the test as well as for the student of clinical and personality assessment who seeks a reliable introductory text.

  • Assessing Individuals With Disabilities in Educational, Employment, and Counseling Settings

    This APA book is an indispensable reference for testing professionals as they face the challenge of how best to assess and test people with disabilities.

  • Assessment of Family Violence

    This book provides a handy reference to assessing family violence for practitioners, researchers and program evalutors.

  • The Causes of Rape

    This book examines why some men seem prone to rape, offers probable causes for this inclination, and provides a comprehensive review of scientific studies of coercive sex.

  • Cognitive Methods and Their Application to Clinical Research

    This book discusses the popularly used cognitive tasks in applied research, including the Stroop, Selective Attention, Implicit Memory, Directed Forgetting, and Autobiographical Memory tasks.

  • Criminal Profiling

    This book aims to transform criminal profiling into a credible science and practice that will reliably aid law enforcement investigation.

  • The Dependent Patient

    This book presents an integrated, empirically based framework for diagnosis, assessment, and treatment of dependent psychotherapy patients.

  • Evaluating Outcomes

    APA book offering practicing psychologists real-world methods to measure and prove therapeutic effectiveness and to evaluate outcomes in practice.

  • Evocative Images

    This APA book retraces the roots of the Thematic Apperception Test, along with the circumstances that shaped, and continue to shape, its use.

  • Handbook of Multimethod Measurement in Psychology

    This APA book is the first integrative guide to theoretical, methodological, and applied aspects of multimethod measurement in psychological research.

  • Interpretive Guide to the Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory, Third Edition

    This revised edition helps mental health graduate students and professionals understand and interpret the MCMI-III.

  • Making Decisions Under Stress

    This APA book focuses on how to train decision making at the individual and team levels -- especially in complex team environments.

  • Making Diagnosis Meaningful

    This book explores criticisms of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders and proposes new ways of looking at the diagnostic and treatment activities of therapists.

  • Measuring Patient Changes in Mood, Anxiety, and Personality Disorders

    This APA book brings together top experts in psychotherapy and leading figures in clinical research who explore what might appear in a core battery to assess therapeutic efficacy.

  • MMPI–2

    This book is a compendium of original contributions that focus on new developments and applications for the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI–2), the most widely researched and broadly used personality assessment instrument.

  • Models of Intelligence

    This book explores how intelligence relates to other constructs such as emotion and temperament.

  • New Methods for the Analysis of Change

    APA book offering methodological and statistical strategies for the analysis of change including measurement methods for estimating and evaluating models of growth and change.

  • Optimal Data Analysis

    This guidebook is a powerful new tool for examining information and making predictions.

  • Protecting Human Subjects

    The case studies and practical lessons offered by this APA book will be an important new resource for researchers and university administrators interested in the welfare of human subjects.

  • Reading and Understanding MORE Multivariate Statistics

    This APA book provides easy-to-understand explanations of more multivariate statistics not covered in Reading and Understanding Multivariate Statistics.

  • Rethinking the DSM

    This APA book reflects the dissatisfaction of mental health professionals with the DSM. It presents thought-provoking essays on alternative systems within different theoretical orientations.

  • Strengthening Research Methodology

    This book both explores and demonstrates how measurement, methodology, and evaluation in psychology have been influenced by preeminent scholar Lee Sechrest.

  • Test Interpretation and Diversity

    This APA book examines key psychometric ideas and judgment processes and offers guidance about the effects of language, acculturation, poverty, disability, and other factors on test scores.

  • Violent Offenders

    In this new edition, the authors update their review, focusing on the actuarial instruments they developed and described earlier and on the measures they have continued to develop.