Behavioral assessment and case formulation

"Mental health practitioners use behavioral assessment methods in their treatment of clients to target the behavior that is desired, select appropriate treatment strategies, and evaluate treatment outcome. This science-based textbook describes the evidence-based principles and underlying theories of behavioral assessment; demonstrates behavioral assessment methods including behavior observation, interviewing, and client self-report assessments; and provides applications of behavioral assessment. Extensive case study illustrations, sidebar callouts, and other pedagogical tools make this a perfect textbook for courses in psychological assessment, particularly those focusing on behavioral assessment methods"--Provided by publisher.

Introduction to behavioral assessment and case formulation -- Introduction to the functional analysis as a paradigm for behavioral case formulation -- Illustrating the functional analysis with functional analytic clinical case diagrams -- Conceptual and empirical foundations of behavioral assessment and the functional analysis I : the complex nature of behavior problems -- Conceptual and empirical foundations of behavioral assessment and the functional analysis II : the complex nature of causal variables and causal relations -- Conceptual and empirical foundations of behavioral assessment and the functional analysis III : characteristics of causal relations in the functional analysis -- Principles of behavioral assessment -- Self-report methods in behavioral assessment -- Direct methods in behavioral assessment -- Identifying causal relations in behavioral assessment -- Twenty-two steps in preintervention behavioral assessment and the development of a functional analysis