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Today, as practitioners in all areas of the human services are increasingly held accountable for monitoring and evaluating their practices in an objective and efficient manner, a sound familiarity with objective measurement is more essential than ever before. In addition, practitioners must also be concerned with satisfying a dizzying array of state, agency, health maintenance organization, and insurance company guidelines.For more than twelve years, through two highly acclaimed editions and now in an updated and expanded third edition, Kevin Corcoran and Joel Fischer's standard reference, Measures for Clinical Practice, has enabled professionals to gather this vital information easily and effectively. In Measures for Clinical Practice, Volume 1: Couples, Families, and Children, and Volume 2: Adults, Corcoran and Fischer provide an extensive collection of more than 400"rapid assessment instruments" (RAIs), including many questionnaires and scales, which assess virtually any problem commonly encountered in clinical practice. Corcoran and Fischer have revised this edition to reflect new research and contemporary clinical practices. They include new scales and materials in areas such as assessment in culturally diverse populations and measurement in managed care systems, as well as the best instruments updated from the previous editions.Brief and easy to administer, these "best practice measures" will be useful for all types of therapeutic and theoretical orientations. All instruments are actually reprinted in the book, and are carefully introduced and evaluated to aid in their selection. Corcoran and Fischer explain the principles of measurement and how to apply them in practice. They explore the range of assessment techniques available, including behavioral observations, rating scales, and client logs, as well as unobtrusive, electromechanical, and standardized measures. And after examining the advantages and disadvantages of rapid assessment instruments, they show practitioners how to effectively select and administer these measures as part of the treatment process.More comprehensive than ever, this edition of Measures for Clinical Practice is essential to every practitioner and student of social work, psychology, psychiatry, nursing, counseling, and the rehabilitative therapies.
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Measures for Clinical Practice A SOURCEBOOK Third Edition Volume 1. Couples, Families, and Children
KEVIN CORCORAN JOEL FISCHER
THE FREE PRESS New York London
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THE FREE PRESS A Division of Simon & Schuster Inc. 1230 Avenue of the Americas New York, NY 10020 Copyright C 1994, 2000 by Joel Fischer and Kevin Corcoran Copyright © 1987 by The Free Press All rights reserved, including the right of reproduction in whole or in part in any form. and colophon are trademarks of Simon & Schuster Inc. THE FREE PRESS
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Corcoran, Kevin (Kevin J.) Measures for clinical practice: a sourcebook / Kevin Corcoran, Joel Fischer.-3rd ed. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 0-684-84830-9 (v. 1)-ISBN 0-684-84831-7 (v. 2) I. Psychological tests. I. Fischer, Joel. II. Title. BF176.C66 2000 150'.28'7-dc21 00-037132 ISBN 0-684-84830-9 The instruments in this book are reprinted with the permission of the authors and publishers. In no uncertain terms, these acts of kindness do not relinquish or weaken the author's and/or publisher's copyright. Reproduction in any form without permission is restricted by law.
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