Future investigations should move beyond an examination of test scales to focus more on the role of psychologists who use tests as helpful tools to furnish patients and referral sources with professional consultation.doi:10.1037/0003-066X.56.2.128Meyer, Gregory J...
Psychological tests are only one element of a psychological assessment. They should never be used as the sole basis for a diagnosis. A detailed clinical interview, including a complete history of the test subject and a review of psychological, medical, educational, and other relevant records is r...
4. Treatment Monitoring and Evaluation: Examination ofhow well prevention or intervention is working Common AssesSMent Strategies -Self-ReportQuestionnaires -Interviews -ObservationalMethods(lab, clinic; school, home, etc.) -Performance-BasedTests(commonly timely tests) Fundamental Questions • Are assesSM...
Repeated measures of ANCOVA and paired t-tests in all assessment points were used to compare the MSC and the TAU groups in outcomes. Results In the MSC group, hopelessness, anger-hostility, anxiety, interpersonal sensitivity difficulties, and depression were significantly reduced compared with the ...
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assessments per year, and they are typically undertaken in a single country at a time. These limitations make it difficult to study events that presumably have their most direct psychological effects right when they happen and that affect individuals across nations (e.g., the outbreak of a war...
standardstestingpsychologicaleducationalcamaratests TestStandards1 StandardsforEducationalandPsychologicalTesting: InfluenceinAssessmentDevelopmentandUse WayneJ.Camara TheCollegeBoard UnpublishedPaper November8,2007 Theappropriatedevelopmentanduseofassessmentsareessentialrequirementsfor responsibleprofessionalpracticeineducationaltes...
Kattenstroth and colleagues [51] reported that older adults, with a history of participating in regular recreational dance, performed better on two different cognitive tests compared with the control group of non-dancers or participants in sporting activities. Similarly, older adults with metabolic ...
conversational agents, the main objective of our present study was to use the Alexa vocal assistant, specifically an Amazon Echo device, as a real psychologist’s assistant able to administer psychometric tests to a sample of subjects, while assessing the efficiency and validity of this measurement...
The number of participants aged 20–24 years in the 2019 CSLC was 4595, and 4481 participants responded to questions about psychological distress [20]. We estimated the prevalence of psychological distress before the COVID-19 pandemic using their data. 2.3. Assessments 2.3.1. Sociodemographic Data...