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Mental health professionals often make explicit or implicit
predictions involving crucial matters—Is a client at risk for
self-harm or harming others? What treatment approach is most likely
to be successful? Has a child been subjected to sexual or physical
abuse? Decision research has particularly strong applied use for
improving the accuracy of such determinations; unfortunately this
work has not been broadly disseminated in the mental health field.
Applying Decision Research to Improve Clinical Outcomes,
Psychological Assessment, and Clinical Prediction introduces
graduate students and practitioners in the mental health field to
research, knowledge, and practical strategies that can enhance
diagnostic and predictive accuracy and thereby improve client care.
Major chapters of the book address well-established, but often
under-recognized, principles and procedures for improving the
integration of clinical data and interpretive accuracy; the
differentiation between seemingly accurate but illusory, as opposed
to genuine, associations between signs, symptoms, and outcomes; and
the minimization of impediments to accurate decision making. The
authors merge applied clinical tasks in the mental health field
with decision research and cognitive psychology to suggest ways in
which prediction, diagnosis, and assessment can be accomplished
with greater efficacy and precision.
Researchers in a growing number of fields--public policy, law, business, medicine, psychology, engineering, and others--are working to understand and improve human judgment and decision making. This book, which presupposes no formal training, brings together a selection of key articles in the area, with careful organization, introduction and commentaries. Issues involving medical diagnosis, weather forecasting, labor negotiations, risk, public policy, business strategy, eyewitnesses, and jury decisions are treated in this largely expanded volume. This is a revision of Arkes and Hammond's 1986 collection on judgment and decision making. Updated and extended, the focus of this volume is interdisciplinary and applied.
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