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Free Download Jack Naglieri Sam Goldstein, Jack A. Naglieri, "Assessing Impairment: From Theory to Practice"
English | 2009 | pages: 173 | ISBN: 0387875417 | PDF | 2,6 mb
Impairment and disability are widely used terms, yet considerable disagreement exists as to their relationship especially when impairment means different things to different professionals in the fields of mental health, medicine, and education. Although diagnostic criteria for various disorders are clearly detailed in the DSM-IV and elsewhere, criteria for impairment remain elusive. And patients with severe limitations but minimal symptoms, or the reverse, further complicate the discussion.The first in-depth treatment of the theory, definition, and evaluation of this core concept, Assessing From Theory to Practice cuts through the confusion and cross-talk. Leading scholars and clinicians offer a robust evidence base for a much-needed reconceptualization of impairment within the context of diagnosis and disability, arguing for a wide-ranging quality-of-life perspective. This contextual approach to assessment goes beyond mere symptom counting, resulting in more accurate diagnosis, targeted interventions, and improved patient functioning.Within this concise but comprehensive volume, coverage focuses on key areasCurrent conceptualizations from the DSM-IV and other medical models.Methodologies for measuring symptom severity and impairment.Social/behavioral issues, such as resilience, adaptive behaviors, and family environment.Developmental issues across the life span.Legal and ethical questions and civil rights issues.Impairment and disability as they relate to trauma.The interdisciplinary model proposed in Assessing Impairment gives clinicians vital tools for working with the unique limitations and strengths of every patient. Child, school, and educational psychologists will find it particularly useful, given the critical importance of early detection and the complexity of young people s lives."

Free Download Terri L. Shelton, "Assessing Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder"
English | 2002 | pages: 354 | ISBN: 1475786794, 0306463881 | PDF | 12,2 mb
Over the past two decades, the assessment of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (AD/HD) has evolved into a sophisticated balance of science and clinical judgement essential for arriving at reliable and valid diagnostic de- sions. Because of the precarious mix of clinical and empirical skill needed to evaluate children with this disorder, diagnostic practice in this area has been found wanting by many critics. In fact, a 1998 National Institutes of Health consensus panel concluded that "existing diagnostic treatment practices … point to the need for improved awareness by the health service sector conce- ing an appropriate assessment, treatment, and follow-up. A more consistent set of diagnostic procedures and practice guidelines is of utmost importance" (p. 21). Drs. Arthur D. Anastopoulos and Terri L. Shelton have designed a book that addresses this need. A number of themes are highlighted throughout the text. Perhaps the most important is that the assessment guidelines set forth in this book represent a balance between science and practice. The authors account for the realities of clinical practice in an age of managed care while challenging clinicians to heed the lessons of empirical research. Although the use of empirically based asse- ment procedures may at times fly in the face of cost constraints (e. g. , systematic evaluation of medication effects), the authors present a strong argument for them. Further, they call upon their vast clinical experience to provide concrete suggestions for translating research findings into effective evaluations.

Free Download Assessing Innovation: Metrics, Rubrics, and Standards
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1032517026 | 229 Pages | PDF (True) | 19 MB
Assessing Innovation: Metrics, Rubrics, and Standards provides a new view for the embracing of innovation and establishing a quantitative basis for determining innovation levels. It bridges innovation with practice and presents a systems view as it incorporates the human element and discusses the different roles carried out. This book offers standards that will guide readers as they tackle sustaining innovation and leverages Badiru’s Umbrella Model in the process.

Free Download Suzette Boon, "Assessing Trauma-Related Dissociation: With the Trauma and Dissociation Symptoms Interview "
English | ISBN: 1324052570 | 2023 | 480 pages | EPUB | 14 MB
Presentation of a major new diagnostic interview to assess chronic trauma-related disorders, in particular dissociative disorders.

Free Download Jennifer Ditchburn, Graham Fox, "The Harper Factor: Assessing a Prime Minister’s Policy Legacy"
English | 2016 | ISBN: 077354870X | EPUB | pages: 320 | 3.9 mb
Political legacy is a concept that is often tossed around casually, hastily defined by commentators long before a prime minister leaves office. In the case of the polarizing Stephen Harper, clear-eyed analysis of his tenure is hard to come by. The Harper Factor offers a refreshingly balanced look at the Conservative decade under his leadership. What impact did Harper have on the nation’s finances, on law and order, and on immigration? Did he accomplish what he promised to do in areas such as energy and intergovernmental affairs? How did he change the conduct of politics, the workings of the media, and Parliament? A diverse group of contributors, including veteran economists David Dodge and Richard Dion, immigration advocate Senator Ratna Omidvar, Stephen Harper’s former policy director Paul Wilson, award-winning journalists such as Susan Delacourt, and vice-provost of Aboriginal Initiatives at Lakehead University Cynthia Wesley-Esquimaux, make reasoned cases for how Harper succeeded and how he fell short in different policy domains between 2006 and 2015. Stephen Harper’s record is decidedly more nuanced than both his admirers and detractors will concede. The Harper Factor provides an authoritative reference for Canadians on the twenty-second prime minister’s imprint on public policy while in office, and his political legacy for generations to come.

Free Download Is My Horse in Pain?
by Hall, Angela;
English | 2024 | ISBN: 0719835070 | 176 pages | True EPUB | 67.37 MB

Free Download Xiaoming Xi, "Assessing Academic English for Higher Education Admissions "
English | ISBN: 0815350643 | 2021 | 220 pages | PDF | 5 MB
Assessing Academic English for Higher Education Admissions is a state-of-the-art overview of advances in theories and practices relevant to the assessment of academic English skills for higher education admissions purposes. The volume includes a brief introduction followed by four main chapters focusing on critical developments in theories and practices for assessing reading, listening, writing, and speaking, of which the latter two also address the assessment of integrated skills such as reading-writing, listening-speaking, and reading-listening-speaking. Each chapter reviews new task types, scoring approaches, and scoring technologies and their implications in light of the increasing use of technology in academic communication and the growing use of English as a lingua franca worldwide. The volume concludes with recommendations about critical areas of research and development that will help move the field forward.

Free Download Brian R. Calfano, "Assessing MENA Political Reform, Post-Arab Spring: Mediators and Microfoundations"
English | ISBN: 0739135821 | 2014 | 248 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
The euphoria and promise that accompanied the Arab Spring has been replaced with a business-as-usual tone in the MENA. Revolutionary shifts in political and religious power have been tempered and, in some cases, reversed. Observers should not be surprised at these outcomes, but skeptics would be advised to remain attentive to regional factors that continue to present potentials for reform. This volume examines a variety of such factors as mediators of MENA political reform, including: Islam, political party and government relations, regime type, elite influence, and Internet access. By providing both a broad review of the relevant literatures and a flexible assessment of the region’s political prospects in the post-Spring period, the volume leverages insights from a series of regional experts and political analysts to offer a useful contribution to the continuing work of reform by MENA scholars, policymakers, and the general public.

Free Download Applying Benford’s Law for Assessing the Validity of Social Science Data
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1009123076 | 225 Pages | PDF | 2 MB
Benford’s Law is a probability distribution for the likelihood of the leading digit in a set of numbers. This book seeks to improve and systematize the use of Benford’s Law in the social sciences to assess the validity of self-reported data. The authors first introduce a new measure of conformity to the Benford distribution that is created using permutation statistical methods and employs the concept of statistical agreement. In a switch from a typical Benford application, this book moves away from using Benford’s Law to test whether the data conform to the Benford distribution, to using it to draw conclusions about the validity of the data. The concept of ‘Benford validity’ is developed, which indicates whether a dataset is valid based on comparisons with the Benford distribution and, in relation to this, diagnostic procedure that assesses the impact of not having Benford validity on data analysis is devised.

Free Download Soldiers of End-Times: Assessing the Military Effectiveness of the Islamic State by Ido Levy
English | April 17, 2023 | ISBN: 1538181312 | 296 pages | PDF | 3.65 Mb
In 2014, the Islamic State shocked the world when it defeated national armies on the battlefield and seized large swaths of territory in Iraq and Syria. The group’s military success can be traced to four key variables: organizational innovation, shaping operations, will to fight, and a knack for retaining the initiative. The IS military project led not only to the declaration of a "caliphate," but to the proliferation of jihadist franchises that devastated countries, displaced millions, and killed tens of thousands. Yet the group’s weaknesses ultimately led to the collapse of its territorial achievement.