Reports on contemporary perspectives and models on psychological assessment and their corresponding measures. It highlights topics relevant to clinical and neuropsychological domains, including cognitive abilities, adaptive behavior, temperament, and psychopathology.Moreover, the book examines a series of standard as well as novel methods and instruments, along with their psychometric properties, recent meta-analytic studies, and their cross-cultural applications.

PART I: PSYCHOMETRIC FOUNDATIONS OF TEST CONSTRUCTION AND PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT1. Recent Advances in Psychological Assessment and Test Construction 2. Classical Test Theory, Generalizability Theory and Item Response Perspectives on Reliability3. Validity 4. Advances in Latent Variable Measurement Modeling

PART II: METACOGNITIVE, COGNITIVE, SOCIAL COGNITIVE, MEMORY AND BEHAVIORAL IMPLICATIONS OF NEURODEVELOPMENTAL DISORDERS5. Executive Function, Theory of Mind, and Adaptive Behavior6. Metacognition, Empathy, and Cognitive Biases in Schizophrenia and OCD

PART III: TEMPERAMENT, PERSONALITY AND THEIR CLINICAL IMPLICATIONS7. The Role of Temperament in Development and Psychopathology8. The Assessment of Family, Parenting, and Child Outcomes9. Perspectives and Advances in Personality10. Measures of Personality

PART IV: DEVELOPMENTS IN THE DOMAINS OF PSYCHOPATHOLOGY, PSYCHIATRIC TAXONOMIES AND ASSESSMENT OF CLINICAL DISORDERS11. Advances in Theoretical, Developmental, and Cross-Cultural Perspectives of Psychopathology12. Psychiatric Taxonomies and Corresponding Measures

PART V: AGGRESSION AND VIOLENCE: EFFORTS TO PREDICT THEIR OUTCOMES13. Theoretical Perspectives of Criminal Behaviors and Developmental Criminology14. General Overview of Violence Risk Assessment and Corresponding Measures15. The Aggressive Implications of Suicide

Dr. Carina Coulacoglou is a test developer and the founder of the Projective Fairy Tale Test Society. The Fairy Tale Test (FTT) is a comprehensive personality test for children (6-12 years of age. The test has been standardized in several cultures and is published in 13 languages. She has taught courses on child development and psychological assessment at the University of La Verne (Athens campus), the Mediterranean college and Pantion University of Athens. She has published several articles and books.