Behavioral Assessment and Case Formulation

Comprehensive, scientifically based coverage on conducting behavioral assessments, analyzing results, and forming clinical recommendations Behavioral Assessment and Case Formulation thoroughly outlines the underlying principles of the behavioral assessment process. This book clearly explains how the principles and methods of behavioral assessment central to the formulation of functional analysis are also helpful in guiding strategies for determining interventions and measuring the processes and outcomes. This comprehensive resource offers up-to-date answers to relevant questions of the clinical assessment process, including: What is the best assessment strategy to use with a particular client? Which assessment methods will best capture a client's unique strengths,limitations, behavior problems, and intervention goals? How can data from multiple sources be integrated in order to yield a valid and clinically useful case formulation? Which procedures should be enacted in order to insure a positive clinician-client relationship? How should intervention processes and outcomes be measured and monitored? Filled with case studies, Behavioral Assessment and Case Formulation provides guidelines for the application of behavioral assessment strategies and methods that can strengthen the validity and utility of clinical judgments, as well as improve the delivery of care.

Comprehensive, scientifically based coverage on conductingbehavioral assessments, analyzing results, and forming clinicalrecommendationsBehavioral Assessment and Case Formulation thoroughlyoutlines the underlying principles of the behavioral assessmentprocess. This book clearly explains how the principles and methodsof behavioral assessment central to the formulation of functionalanalysis are also helpful in guiding strategies for determininginterventions and measuring the processes and outcomes.This comprehensive resource offers up-to-date answers torelevant questions of the clinical assessment processincluding:* What is the best assessment strategy to use with a particularclient?* Which assessment methods will best capture a client's uniquestrengths,limitations, behavior problems, and interventiongoals?* How can data from multiple sources be integrated in order toyield a valid and clinically useful case formulation?* Which procedures should be enacted in order to insure a positiveclinician-client relationship?* How should intervention processes and outcomes be measured andmonitored?Filled with case studies, Behavioral Assessment and CaseFormulation provides guidelines for the application ofbehavioral assessment strategies and methods that can strengthenthe validity and utility of clinical judgments, as well as improvethe delivery of care.

Preface ixChapter 1 Introduction to Behavioral Assessment and Case Formulation 1Chapter 2 Introduction to the Functional Analysis as a Paradigm for Behavioral Case Formulation 35Chapter 3 Illustrating the Functional Analysis With Functional Analytic Clinical Case Diagrams 63Chapter 4 Conceptual and Empirical Foundations of Behavioral Assessment and the Functional Analysis I: The Complex Nature of Behavior Problems 85Chapter 5 Conceptual and Empirical Foundations of Behavioral Assessment and the Functional Analysis II: The Complex Nature of Causal Variables and Causal Relations 121Chapter 6 Conceptual and Empirical Foundations of Behavioral Assessment and the Functional Analysis III: Characteristics of Causal Variables and Causal Relations in the Functional Analysis 149Chapter 7 Principles of Behavioral Assessment 185Chapter 8 Self-Report Methods in Behavioral Assessment 213Chapter 9 Direct Methods in Behavioral Assessment 245Chapter 10 Identifying Causal Relations in Behavioral Assessment 287Chapter 11 Twenty-Two Steps in Preintervention Behavioral Assessment and the Development of a Functional Analysis 307References 347Author Index 381Subject Index 389