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Essentials of Temperament Assessment

Joyce, Diana

Essentials of Psychological Assessment

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1. Edition March 2010
224 Pages, Softcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd

ISBN: 978-0-470-44447-4
John Wiley & Sons

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Quickly acquire the knowledge and skills you need to effectively
conduct a comprehensive temperament assessment

Understanding temperament has the potential to better inform
treatment and intervention choices as well as promote awareness for
qualities that are somewhat malleable. Essentials of Temperament
Assessment presents balanced coverage of those instruments that
directly measure temperament qualities in adults and children. This
guide enables mental health professionals to select the method that
best fits the situations, groups of people, and programs that are
involved.

With an overview of clinical applications of temperament
assessments, Essentials of Temperament Assessment gathers as many
resources as possible to enable professionals to make their own
judgment about the most appropriate temperament assessments,
including:

* New York Longitudinal Scales Adult Temperament Questionnaire
(ATQ)

* Carey Temperament Scales (CTS)

* Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI®)

* Student Styles Questionnaire (SSQ)

Like all the volumes in the Essentials of Psychological Assessment
series, this book is designed to help busy mental health
professionals, and those in training, quickly acquire the knowledge
and skills they need to make optimal use of major psychological
assessment instruments. 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.

Offering a myriad of ways to assess temperament, Essentials
of Temperament Assessment arms professionals with the most
appropriate technique or combination of techniques for their
particular temperament assessment purposes.

Chapter One: Overview of Temperament Theory

Chapter Two: Empirical Foundations for Temperament
Theory

Chapter Three: Validity and Reliability in Temperament
Assessment

Chapter Four: Interpreting Temperament Measures

Chapter Five: Strengths and Limitations of Temperament
Assessment

Chapter Six: Clinical Applications of Temperament
Assessment

Chapter Seven: Illustrative Case Reports

Appendix -- Definitions of Temperament Terms

References

Annotated Bibliography
Diana Joyce, PhD, is an Associate Scholar in the School Psychology Program at the University of Florida with licensure as a psychologist and school psychologist. She has taught numerous assessment courses and supervises graduate student practicum work across four county school districts and several clinic sites. Her research and publications have included studies of temperament qualities of gifted children as well as temperament characteristics of students with conduct disorders.