Measures for Clinical Practice, 2nd Ed., Vol. 1 (Measures for Clinical Practice) (Hardcover)

by Joel Fischer (Author), Kevin Corcoran (Creator) "Your client has come to you with a number of complaints..." (more)
Key Phrases: two cutting scores, scores indicating greater magnitude, second cutting score, Publishing Company, University of Wisconsin, Department of Psychology (more...)

Editorial Reviews

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Walter W. Hudson School of Social Work, Arizona State University A much needed text...that will provide direct practice workers with an array of measures for use in monitoring and evaluating client progress and the effectiveness of social work intervention. -- Review

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Bentson H. McFartland, M.D. Ph.D.

Community Mental Health Journal

Corcoran and Fischer's "must have" book on instruments you can really use in your practice is back....[P]ractitioners who wish to survive in the managed care environment need to demonstrate beneficial outcomes of their services. These volumes give you those survival tools.....Perhaps someday there will be an even bigger and better third edition. In the meantime, add these volumes to your library.

Peter Salovey

professor of psychology, Yale University, and author of The Remembered Self

This revision of Measures for Clinical Practice provides a wealth of new information. Many additional useful scales can be found in these two volumes, with very helpful descriptions of their reliability and validity. These books should be found on the shelf of every clinical researcher in addition to clinical practitioners.

Siri Jayaratne

School of Social Work, University of Michigan

A welcome addition....For many years, many of us teaching practice-research classes have compiled library lists containing a variety of instruments to be used in class and practice. This has been rather a painful endeavor. With this book, life will become