TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ferreira,Ronel
TI  - Psychological assessment: thinking innovatively in contexts of diversity 
SN  - 9780702189791
AV  - BF176 .P775 2016
U1  - 153.93 23
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - Cape Town, South Africa
PB  - Juta and Company
KW  - Psychological tests
KW  - Textbooks
KW  - Behavioral assessment
KW  - Psychometrics
KW  - Analyse comportementale
KW  - fast
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Part 1; Situating psychometric testing within the context of South Africa --; Contextualising psychological service provision in South Africa --; Understanding the role of indigenous knowledge in psychological assessment and intervention in a multicultural South African context --; Non-Western (African) views of psychological constructs : current context of psychological assessment in South Africa --; How psychological tests work : understanding standardisation --; Methodological standards and fit for purpose : criteria to evaluate psychological tests and assessments --; Developing psychometric instruments for a specific context : the South African Personality Inventory --; Part 2; Alternative approaches to implementing and interpreting psychometric tests --; Assessing mental abilities : a critical view on historical and modern intelligence measures used in South Africa --; Dynamic assessment as an alternative avenue when intervening with children --; Addressing diversity in assessment : the value of an integrated qualitative+quantitative approach to career counselling --; Using genograms for the psychological assessment and support of vulnerable clients --; Family assessment in contexts of diversity --; Part 3; 'Thinking out of the box' when rendering psychological services --; Flowing between assessment and therapy through creative expressive arts --; Sandwork as a psychological assessment technique --; Using body mapping to step into your future : life design in a context of high risk and high diversity --; Ea gala model equine-assisted psychotherapy and learning as an innovative psychological assessment technique --; Using the Mmogo-method® to identify quality of life contributors and inhibitors in the lives of older people in residential care facilities in South Africa --; Providing psychological services in a context of diversity : lessons learnt from private practice --; Integrating traditional ethical guidelines with challenges posed by a digital world
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