Williams / Freeman Mental Testing in Clinical Practice

The Commonwealth and International Library: Mental Health and Social Medicine Division
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-4831-8074-8
Verlag: Elsevier Science & Techn.
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 198 Seiten, Web PDF

Mental Testing in Clinical Practice focuses on the measurement of mental activities in sickness. The book first offers information on intelligence and personality. Topics include conditions and factors affecting intelligence, clinical uses of intelligence testing, measurement of intelligence, intellectual deterioration, factors determining and influencing personality, and conditions causing breakdown. The manuscript then surveys speech and language and memory and learning, including conditions and factors influencing speech, measurement of language, nature of memory, disorders of speech, measurement of memory in clinical practice, and tests for the measurement of memory. The publication takes a look at perception and orientation and the future of clinical psychology. Discussions focus on factors affecting perception and orientation and assessment of orientation. The book is a reliable source of data for readers interested in the process of mental testing in clinical practice.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Williams, Moyra

Freeman, Hugh L.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Front Cover;1
2;Mental Testing in Clinical Practice;4
3;Copyright Page;5
4;Table of Contents;6
5;FOREWORD;10
6;INTRODUCTION;12
6.1;HISTORICAL BACKGROUND;12
6.2;THE NATURE OF MENTAL TESTS;14
6.3;THE AIM OF MENTAL TESTING;14
6.4;STANDARDISATION OF MENTAL TESTS;15
7;CHAPTER 1. INTELLIGENCE;22
7.1;DEFINITIONS;22
7.2;CONDITIONS AND FACTORS AFFECTING INTELLIGENCE;24
7.3;CLINICAL USES OF INTELLIGENCE TESTING;30
7.4;THE MEASUREMENT OF INTELLIGENCE;33
7.5;TESTS FOR THE MEASUREMENT OF INTELLIGENCE;35
7.6;INTELLECTUAL DETERIORATION;48
8;CHAPTER 2. PERSONALITY;58
8.1;SOME DEFINITIONS;58
8.2;FACTORS DETERMINING AND INFLUENCING PERSONALITY;59
8.3;MECHANISMS IN THE FORMATION OF THE PERSONALITY;67
8.4;CONDITIONS CAUSING BREAKDOWN OF THE PERSONALITY;68
8.5;ASPECTS OF THE PERSONALITY WHICH CAN BE MEASURED;70
8.6;METHODS OF PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT;75
9;CHAPTER 3. SPEECH AND LANGUAGE;96
9.1;WHAT IS SPEECH?;96
9.2;CONDITIONS AND FACTORS INFLUENCING SPEECH;98
9.3;DISORDERS OF SPEECH;108
9.4;THE MEASUREMENT OF LANGUAGE;115
10;CHAPTER 4. MEMORY AND LEARNING;123
10.1;THE NATURE OF MEMORY;123
10.2;THE MEASUREMENT OF MEMORY IN CLINICAL PRACTICE;132
10.3;TESTS FOR THE MEASUREMENT OF MEMORY;134
11;CHAPTER 5. PERCEPTION AND ORIENTATION;160
11.1;FACTORS AFFECTING PERCEPTION AND ORIENTATION;161
11.2;THE ASSESSMENT OF ORIENTATION;171
12;CHAPTER 6. THE FUTURE OF CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY;174
13;BIBLIOGRAPHY;178
14;INDEX;192