Principles and Practice of Behavioral Assessment
Behavioral assessment is a psychological assessment paradigm that emphasizes empirically supported, multimethod and multi-informant assessment of specific, observable behaviors and contemporaneous causal variables in the natural environment. The behaviora
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Principles and Practice of Behavioral Assessment Stephen N. Haynes University of Hawaii at Manoa Honolulu, Hawaii
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William Hayes O'Brien Bowling Green State University Bowling Green, Ohio
Kluwer Academic I Plenum Publishers
New York, Boston, Dordrecht, London, Moscow
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Haynes, Stephen N. Principles and practice of behavioral assessment I Stephen N. Haynes, William Hayes O'Brien. p. cm. -- (Applied clinical psychology) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-1-4757-0971-1 ISBN 978-0-306-47469-9 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-0-306-47469-9 I. Behavioral assessment. I. O'Brien, William Hayes. II. Title. III. Series. BF176.5 .H39 1999 I 50'.287--dc2 I 99-046705
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Preface
Introduction and Goals of Book This book presents the concepts and strategies of the behavioral assessment paradigm. Psychological assessment paradigms affect the methods of ass
