Essentials of WAIS-IV Assessment.
Title:
Essentials of WAIS-IV Assessment.
Author:
Lichtenberger, Elizabeth O.
ISBN:
9781118419625
Personal Author:
Edition:
2nd ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (498 pages)
Series:
Essentials of Psychological Assessment Ser. ; v.96
Essentials of Psychological Assessment Ser.
Contents:
Essentials of WAIS-IV Assessment -- Contents -- Series Preface -- Preface to the Second Edition -- Acknowledgments -- One: Introduction and Overview -- INTRODUCTION -- HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT -- BINET-SIMON SCALES -- TERMAN'S STANFORD-BINET -- WORLD WAR I TESTS -- WECHSLER'S CREATIVITY -- WAIS-IV AND ITS PREDECESSORS -- WECHSLER-BELLEVUE SUBTESTS THAT SURVIVE ON THE WAIS-IV -- Similarities (Verbal Comprehension Index) -- Vocabulary (Verbal Comprehension Index) -- Information (Verbal Comprehension Index) -- Comprehension (Verbal Comprehension Index) -- Digit Span (Working Memory Index) -- Arithmetic (Working Memory Index) -- Block Design (Perceptual Reasoning Index) -- Picture Completion (Perceptual Reasoning Index) -- Coding (Processing Speed Index) -- WECHSLER'S LEGACY -- PURPOSES OF ASSESSING ADULTS AND ADOLESCENTS -- FOUNDATIONS OF THE WAIS-IV: THEORY AND RESEARCH -- Description of WAIS-IV -- Validity of the WAIS-IV Model -- WAIS-IV's Relationship with the WMS-IV -- WAIS-IV's Relationship with the WAIS-III -- The Flynn Effect and Capital Punishment -- STANDARDIZATION AND PSYCHOMETRIC PROPERTIES OF THE WAIS-IV -- Reliability -- Loadings on the General Factor -- ETHNIC DIFFERENCES IN IQ -- Differences Between Whites and African Americans -- Differences Between Whites and Hispanics -- OVERVIEW OF ETHNIC DIFFERENCES ON THE WAIS-IV -- COMPREHENSIVE REFERENCES ON TEST -- Two: How to Administer the WAIS-IV -- APPROPRIATE TESTING CONDITIONS -- Testing Environment -- Testing Materials -- RAPPORT WITH EXAMINEE -- Establishing Rapport -- Maintaining Rapport -- TESTING INDIVIDUALS WITH SPECIAL NEEDS -- ADMINISTRATION CONSIDERATIONS -- Starting and Discontinuing Subtests -- Recording Responses -- Timing -- Querying -- Repeating Items -- Teaching the Task -- SUBTEST-BY-SUBTEST RULES OF ADMINISTRATION -- Block Design -- Similarities -- Digit Span.
Matrix Reasoning -- Vocabulary -- Arithmetic -- Symbol Search -- Visual Puzzles -- Information -- Coding -- Letter-Number Sequencing -- Figure Weights -- Comprehension -- Cancellation -- Picture Completion -- Pitfalls of Subtest Administration -- Three: How to Score the WAIS-IV -- TYPES OF SCORES -- STEP-BY-STEP: HOW THE WAIS-IV IS SCORED -- Raw Scores -- Scaled Scores -- IQs and Factor Indexes -- Raw Scores of Zero May Invalidate Composite -- Prorating and Scoring Options -- Scoring Subtests Requiring Judgment -- General Scoring Criteria for Verbal Subtests -- Subtest-by-Subtest Scoring Keys -- Computer Scoring Procedures -- Four: How to Interpret the WAIS-IV: Conceptual and Clinical Foundations -- INTELLIGENT TESTING PHILOSOPHY -- TYING TOGETHER THE TENETS OF INTELLIGENT TESTING -- QUALITATIVE AND CLINICAL ANALYSES OF THE WAIS-IV -- SUBTEST-BY-SUBTEST QUALITATIVE AND CLINICAL ANALYSES -- BLOCK DESIGN: Influences Affecting Subtest Scores -- BLOCK DESIGN: Clinical Considerations -- SIMILARITIES: Influences Affecting Subtest Scores -- SIMILARITIES: Clinical Considerations -- DIGIT SPAN: Influences Affecting Subtest Scores -- DIGIT SPAN: Clinical Considerations -- MATRIX REASONING: Influences Affecting Subtest Scores -- MATRIX REASONING: Clinical Considerations -- VOCABULARY: Influences Affecting Subtest Scores -- VOCABULARY: Clinical Considerations -- ARITHMETIC: Influences Affecting Subtest Scores -- ARITHMETIC: Clinical Considerations -- SYMBOL SEARCH: Influences Affecting Subtest Scores -- SYMBOL SEARCH: Clinical Considerations -- VISUAL PUZZLES: Influences Affecting Subtest Scores -- VISUAL PUZZLES: Clinical Considerations -- INFORMATION: Influences Affecting Subtest Scores -- INFORMATION: Clinical Considerations -- CODING: Influences Affecting Subtest Scores -- CODING: Clinical Considerations.
LETTER-NUMBER SEQUENCING: Influences Affecting Subtest Scores -- LETTER-NUMBER SEQUENCING: Clinical Considerations -- FIGURE WEIGHTS: Influences Affecting Subtest Scores -- FIGURE WEIGHTS: Clinical Considerations -- COMPREHENSION: Influences Affecting Subtest Scores -- COMPREHENSION: Clinical Considerations -- CANCELLATION: Influences Affecting Subtest Scores -- CANCELLATION: Clinical Considerations -- PICTURE COMPLETION: Influences Affecting Subtest Scores -- PICTURE COMPLETION: Clinical Considerations -- Five: How to Interpret the WAIS-IV: Step-by-Step -- INTRODUCTION TO INTERPRETATION -- Administration Tips for Using the Step-by-Step Interpretive System -- STEPS 1-3: ANALYZE THE FSIQ AND THE INDEX PROFILE -- Step 1: Report the Person's WAIS-IV Standard Scores (FSIQ and Indexes) and Subtest Scaled Scores -- Step 2: Determine the Best Way to Summarize Overall Intellectual Ability -- Step 3: Determine Whether the Difference Between the Person's GAI and Cognitive Proficiency Index Is Unusually Large -- INTRODUCTION TO STEPS 4-10: TWO PATHS OF INTERPRETATION -- Step 4: Selecting the Wechsler Four-Index Model, the Keith Five-Factor Model, or the Core Five-Factor Model -- Step 5: Determine Whether Each of the Four Wechsler Indexes Is Unitary and, Thus, Interpretable -- Step 6: Determine Whether Each of the Five Keith Factors Is Unitary and, Thus, Interpretable (Ages 16-69 Only) -- Step 7: Determine Whether Each of the Five Core Factors Is Unitary and, Thus, Interpretable -- Step 8: Determine Normative Strengths and Normative Weaknesses in the Index (or Factor) Profile -- Step 9: Determine Personal Strengths and Personal Weaknesses in the Index (or Factor) Profile -- Step 10: Interpret Fluctuations in the Person's Index or Factor Profile -- INTRODUCTION TO STEPS 11-12: ANALYZING PLANNED CLINICAL COMPARISONS -- Choosing Step 11 or Step 12.
Step 11: Conduct Clinical Comparisons (Ages 16-69 Only) -- Step 12: Conduct Clinical Comparisons (Ages 16-90) -- Six: Clinical Applications I: A Neuropsychological Approach to Interpretation of the WAIS-IV and the Use of the WAIS-IV in Learning Disability Assessments -- INTRODUCTION -- LEVELS OF INTERPRETATION -- Global Composite Level of Interpretation -- Specific Composite (Index) Level of Interpretation -- Subtest Level of Interpretation -- Item Level of Interpretation -- Task-Specific Cognitive Constructs Level of Interpretation -- NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL INTERPRETATION OF WAIS-IV PERFORMANCE -- WHAT DO THE VERBAL COMPREHENSION SUBTESTS MEASURE? -- WHAT DO THE PERCEPTUAL REASONING SUBTESTS MEASURE? -- WHAT DO THE WORKING MEMORY SUBTESTS MEASURE? -- WHAT DO THE PROCESSING SPEED SUBTESTS MEASURE? -- LEARNING DISABILITY ASSESSMENT AND THE WAIS-IV -- CONSTRAINTS ON LEARNING AND PRODUCTION -- CONCEPTIONS OF LEARNING DISABILITY -- Ability-Achievement Discrepancy Conception of Learning Disability -- ABILITY AND ACHIEVEMENT DEFICIT MODEL OF LEARNING DISABILITY -- REPORTING WAIS-IV RESULTS IN AN INTEGRATED REPORT FORMAT -- Seven: Clinical Applications II: Age and Intelligence Across the Adult Life Span -- DO COGNITIVE ABILITIES DECLINE WITH ADVANCING AGE? A CROSS-SECTIONAL APPROACH -- Cross-Sectional Investigations of Wechsler's Adult Scales -- WAIS Studies -- WAIS-R Studies -- WAIS-III Studies -- WAIS-IV Studies -- Cautions Associated With Cross-Sectional Investigations -- DOES IQ DECLINE WITH ADVANCING AGE? A LONGITUDINAL APPROACH -- Problems in Investigating Aging Longitudinally -- Practice Effects and Progressive Error on Wechsler's Performance Scale -- Selective Attrition WAIS Full Scale Score -- TWO GROUNDBREAKING LONGITUDINAL INVESTIGATIONS OF IQ AND AGING -- Iowa State Army Alpha Study -- Schaie's 21-Year Seattle Cohort-Sequential Study.
LONGITUDINAL INVESTIGATIONS OF WECHSLER'S SCALES USING INDEPENDENT SAMPLES -- Longitudinal Studies of WAIS, WAIS-R, and WAIS-III Verbal and Performance IQs -- LONGITUDINAL STUDY OF WAIS-III AND WAIS-IV FACTOR INDEXES -- OVERVIEW OF THE WECHSLER LONGITUDINAL INVESTIGATIONS WITH INDEPENDENT SAMPLES -- INTERPRETATION OF COGNITIVE DECLINE: SPEED OR PROBLEM SOLVING -- CAN COGNITIVE DECLINE BE SLOWED OR PREDICTED IN ADVANCE? -- Engagement in Cognitive Activities and Maintenance of Intelligence -- Prediction of Declining Cognitive Ability -- Eight: Clinical Applications III: WAIS-IV Use With Special Groups, Practice Effects, and Gender Differences -- INDIVIDUALS WITH AUTISTIC DISORDER AND ASPERGER'S DISORDER -- INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE INTELLECTUALLY GIFTED -- INDIVIDUALS WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY OR BORDERLINE INTELLECTUAL FUNCTIONING -- INDIVIDUALS WITH ATTENTION-DEFICIT/ HYPERACTIVITY DISORDER -- INDIVIDUALS WITH LEARNING DISABILITIES IN READING OR MATHEMATICS -- INDIVIDUALS WITH TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY -- INDIVIDUALS WITH MAJOR DEPRESSION -- INDIVIDUALS WITH PROBABLE ALZHEIMER'S-TYPE DEMENTIA AND MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT -- COMPARISON OF THE VERBAL COMPREHENSION INDEX AND THE PERCEPTUAL REASONING INDEX FOR THE CLINICAL SAMPLES -- COMPARISONS INVOLVING THE FSIQ, GAI, AND CPI FOR THE CLINICAL SAMPLES -- COMPARISON OF THE WORKING MEMORY INDEX AND THE PROCESSING SPEED INDEX FOR THE CLINICAL SAMPLES -- CLINICAL SAMPLES WITH RELATIVELY LOW SCORES ON THE PROCESSING SPEED INDEX -- UTILITY OF THE PROCESS APPROACH -- CLINICAL SAMPLES WITH NOTABLE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN SCALED SCORES ON DIGITS FORWARD AND DIGITS BACKWARD -- INTERPRETATION OF GAIN SCORES FOR NORMAL SAMPLES -- INTERPRETATION OF GENDER DIFFERENCES FOR NORMAL SAMPLES -- WAIS-IV Indexes -- WAIS-III Indexes -- GENDER DIFFERENCES ON PROCESSING SPEED -- GENDER DIFFERENCES IN SPATIAL VISUALIZATION.
CLINICAL IMPLICATIONS OF GENDER DIFFERENCES ON MENTAL TASKS.
Abstract:
Quickly acquire the knowledge and skills you need to confidently administer, score, and interpret the WAIS®-IV Coauthored by Alan S. Kaufman, who was mentored by David Wechsler-the creator of the Wechsler scales-Essentials of WAIS®-IV Assessment, Second Edition is thoroughly revised and updated to provide beginning and seasoned clinicians with comprehensive step-by-step guidelines for effective use of the WAIS®-IV. This invaluable guide provides clinicians with a brand new interpretive process, overhauling its system of profile interpretation to be equally powerful across the entire WAIS®-IV age range. Like all the volumes in the Essentials of Psychological Assessment series, this book is designed to help busy mental health professionals quickly acquire the basic knowledge and skills they need to make optimal use of a major psychological assessment instrument. Each concise chapter features numerous callout boxes highlighting key concepts, bulleted points, and extensive illustrative material, as well as test questions that help you gauge and reinforce your grasp of the information covered. The new edition explores timely topics including gender and ethnic differences, as well as the role of the Flynn Effect in capital punishment court cases. Along with an accompanying CD-ROM containing scoring tables and case report material, the Second Edition includes information and advice on how to administer Q-interactive-the new digital version of the test-for administration of the WAIS®-IV via iPad®. Other titles in the Essentials of Psychological Assessment series: Essentials of Assessment Report Writing Essentials of WISC®-IV Assessment, Second Edition Essentials of WMS®-IV Assessment Essentials of Cross-Battery Assessment, Third Edition Essentials of WJ III Tests of Achievement Assessment Essentials of WJ III Cognitive Abilities Assessment, Second
Edition Essentials of Neuropsychological Assessment, Second Edition.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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