Practitioner's Guide to Empirically Supported Measures of Anger, Aggression, and Violence

This book contains three sections. Part I includes an introductory chapter and an applied chapter on conducting a risk assessment. Part II provides adescription of how the measures were organized and quick-view tables that provide easy access to measures with enough information to allow for an estimate of the likelihood that reading additional information about a particular measure would prove fruitful. Measures are organized alphabetically into tables for measures of anger, aggression, or violence. Each of the tables provides the name of the measure, the purpose for which the measure was developed, and the targeted population. The tables also provide information on the method of assessment, the amount of time required to use the measure, and the page number where additional information is available. Part II also contains the review of eachmeasure. Part III provides examples of measures that can be copied for research or clinical purposes.

List of contents

Part I: General issues in assessing anger, aggression, and violence.- Introduction.- Assessing anger, aggression, and violence.- Part II.- Assessment instruments.- Measures of anger.- Measures of aggression.- Measures of violence.- Part III: Reprinted measures.

Summary

This book contains three sections. Part I includes an introductory chapter and an applied chapter on conducting a risk assessment.  Part II provides a
description of how the measures were organized and quick-view tables that provide easy access to measures with enough information to allow for an estimate of the likelihood that reading additional information about a particular measure would prove fruitful.  Measures are organized alphabetically into tables for measures of anger, aggression, or violence.  Each of the tables provides the name of the measure, the purpose for which the measure was developed, and the targeted population.  The tables also provide information on the method of assessment, the amount of time required to use the measure, and the page number where additional information is available.  Part II also contains the review of each
measure.  Part III provides examples of measures that can be copied for research or clinical purposes. 

 

Product details

• Authors: Laur Dreer, Laura Dreer, James Gerhart, Kimberly Maurelli, Kimberly et Maurelli, Donna Ronan, George Ronan, George F Ronan
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.03.2013
• EAN: 9783319002446
• ISBN: 978-3-31-900244-6
• No. of pages: 392
• Dimensions: 179 mm x 254 mm x 24 mm
• Weight: 822 g
• Illustrations: XLV, 392 p. 20 illus., 3 illus. in color.
• Series: ABCT Clinical Assessment Series; ABCT Clinical Assessment Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Applied psychology; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology