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One of the key challenges of all types of practice and research is
finding a way to measure a given problem. The seminal Measures for
Clinical Practice and Research two-volume set contains hundreds of
the most useful measurement tools-alongside the authors' guidance
on how to select and score them-for use in clinical practice and in
research. Focusing on measures for use with couples, families, and
children, this first volume includes an introduction to the basic
priniciples of measurement, an overview of different types of
measures, and an overview of Rapid Assessment Instruments. The text
also contains descriptions and reviews of each instrument and
information on how they were selected. This book is designed to
serve as the definitive reference volume on assessment measures for
both practice and research in clinical mental health, and Volume 1
is updated with a new preface, new instruments for measuring
children's clinical conditions, several new measures for couples
and families, and six new chapters. These classic Measures for
Clinical Practice and Research compendiums are powerful tools that
clinicians and researchers alike will find to be an invaluable
addition to-or update of-their libraries.
One of the key challenges of all types of practice and research is
finding a way to measure a given problem. The seminal Measures for
Clinical Practice and Research two-volume set contains hundreds of
the most useful measurement tools-alongside the authors' guidance
on how to select and score them-for use in clinical practice and in
research. Focusing on measures for use with adults whose conditions
of concerns are not focused on family relationships or couple
relationships, this second volume includes an introduction to the
basic priniciples of measurement, an overview of different types of
measures, and an overview of Rapid Assessment Instruments. The text
also contains descriptions and reviews of each instrument and
information on how they were selected. This book is designed to
serve as the definitive reference volume on assessment measures for
both practice and research in clinical mental health, and Volume 2
is updated with a new preface and target searches for instruments
in health care conditions, personality disorders, and addictions.
These classic Measures for Clinical Practice and Research
compendiums are powerful tools that clinicians and researchers
alike will find to be an invaluable addition to-or update of-their
libraries.
America's incarceration rate was roughly constant from 1925 to
1973, with an average of 110 people behind bars for every 100,000
residents. By 2013, however, the rate of incarceration in state and
federal prisons had increased sevenfold to 716. Compared with 102
for Canada, 132 for England and Wales, 85 for France, and a paltry
48 in Japan, the United States is the worlds' most aggressive
jailer. When one factors in those on parole or probation, the
American correctional system is in control of more than 7.3 million
Americans, or one in every 31 U.S. adults. This means that 6.7
million adult men and women - about 3.1 percent of the total U.S.
adult population - are now very non-voluntary members of America's
"correctional community." Some key questions that need to be
addressed are: "What are we doing with those 7.3 million Americans?
How are they being treated while they are incarcerated? How can we
best prepare them to return to their communities?" More than
650,000 offenders are released back into our communities every
year; however, 70% are rearrested within three years of their
release. Serving the Stigmatized is the first book of its kind that
explores best practices when dealing with a specific prison
population while under some form of institutional control. If the
established goal of a correctional facility is to "rehabilitate,"
then it is imperative that the rehabilitation is effective and does
not simply serve as a political buzz word. The timing of releasing
this book coincides with a real movement in the United States,
supported by both conservative and liberal advocates and
foundations, to decrease the size of the prison population by
returning more offenders to their communities. The text examines 14
specific populations and how to effectively treat them in order to
better serve them and our communities.
Despite increases in their application and improvements in their
structure, there is a paucity of reliable and valid scales compared
to the complex range of problems that social workers and other
health professionals confront daily. They need to be able to design
rapid assessment instruments (RAIs) to fit their specific
situations, and with this step-by-step guide by RAI experts, that
prospect will be much less intimidating. For each stage of RAI
development, from conceptualization through design, data
collection, and analysis, the authors identify critical concerns,
ground them in the growing conceptual and empirical psychometric
literature, and offer practical advice. A presentation of the
basics of construct conceptualization and the search for evidence
of validity is complemented by introductions to concept mapping and
cross-cultural translation, as well as an in-depth discussion of
cutting-edge topics like bias and invariance in item responses. In
addition, they critique and illustrate factor analysis in
exploratory and confirmatory strategies, offering guidance for
anticipating elements of a complete data collection instrument,
determining sampling frame and size, and interpreting resulting
coefficients.
This pocket guide provides a comprehensive start-to-finish overview
of the basics of scale development, giving practical guidance that
practitioners at all levels will be able to put to use.
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