Psychometrics and Psychological Assessment: Principles and Applications throws new light onto the foundations of psychological science: the assessment of concepts and the validation of theoretical speculations. Specifically, it places special emphasis on illustrating contemporary theoretical perspectives and their evidence-based validity and less in their historical background. The bridge between assessment and psychometrics can be detected throughout the chapters. It highlights topics that underlie developments in the fields of developmental, clinical or neuropsychological domains, such as the role of cognitive abilities and adaptive behavior in psychopathology; the link between temperament and mental disorders; the discords between biological, neuropsychological and psychodynamic perspectives in formulating psychiatric taxonomies; the continuous efforts in the study and assessment of aggression. Finally, the book introduces a plethora of measures, along with their psychometric properties, recent meta-analytic studies and advances in their cross-cultural applications.

• Discusses extensively, and on an advanced level, major psychometric issues in combination with empirical studies
• Evaluates multiple cognitive perspectives on neurodevelopmental disorders
• Examines the family context in relation to children's behavioral outcomes
• Features major personality measures as well as their cross cultural variations
• Introduces developments in psychopathology and psychiatric taxonomies
• Highlights the importance of assessing coping and resilience in both personality and psychopathology
• Examines the precursors of aggression and violence and presents a variety of measures for their prediction and prevention

Psychometrics and Psychological Assessment: Principles and Applications 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. - Discusses psychometric issues and empirical studies that speak to same - Explores the family context in relation to children's behavioral outcomes - Features major personality measures as well as their cross cultural variations - Identifies the importance of coping and resilience in assessing personality and psychopathology - Examines precursors of aggression and violence for prediction and prevention

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.

PART I: PSYCHOMETRIC FOUNDATIONS OF TEST CONSTRUCTION AND PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT 1. Recent Advances in Psychological Assessment and Test Construction 2. Classical Test Theory, Generalizability Theory and Item Response Perspectives on Reliability 3. Validity 4. Advances in Latent Variable Measurement Modeling

PART II: METACOGNITIVE, COGNITIVE, SOCIAL COGNITIVE, MEMORY AND BEHAVIORAL IMPLICATIONS OF NEURODEVELOPMENTAL DISORDERS 5. Executive Function, Theory of Mind, and Adaptive Behavior 6. Metacognition, Empathy, and Cognitive Biases in Schizophrenia and OCD

PART III: TEMPERAMENT, PERSONALITY AND THEIR CLINICAL IMPLICATIONS 7. The Role of Temperament in Development and Psychopathology 8. The Assessment of Family, Parenting, and Child Outcomes 9. Perspectives and Advances in Personality 10. Measures of Personality

PART IV: DEVELOPMENTS IN THE DOMAINS OF PSYCHOPATHOLOGY, PSYCHIATRIC TAXONOMIES AND ASSESSMENT OF CLINICAL DISORDERS 11. Advances in Theoretical, Developmental, and Cross-Cultural Perspectives of Psychopathology 12. Psychiatric Taxonomies and Corresponding Measures

PART V: AGGRESSION AND VIOLENCE: EFFORTS TO PREDICT THEIR OUTCOMES 13. Theoretical Perspectives of Criminal Behaviors and Developmental Criminology 14. General Overview of Violence Risk Assessment and Corresponding Measures 15. The Aggressive Implications of Suicide