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Garb, Howard N.; Wood, James M.; Fiedler, Edna R. – Assessment, 2011
Using 65 items from a mental health screening questionnaire, the History Opinion Inventory-Revised (HOI-R), the present study compared three strategies of scale construction--(1) internal (based on factor analysis), (2) external (based on empirical performance) and (3) intuitive (based on clinicians' opinion)--to predict whether 203,595 U.S. Air…
Descriptors: Opinions, Mental Health, Test Validity, Measures (Individuals)
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Epstein, Michael H.; Synhorst, Lori L.; Cress, Cynthia J.; Allen, Elizabeth A. – Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders, 2009
The purpose of the present study was to document the development and standardization of the "Preschool Behavioral and Emotional Rating Scale" and to examine its factor structure, internal consistency, and criterion validity. Data from a nationally representative sample (N = 1,471) of preschool children with and without disabilities were…
Descriptors: School Readiness, Predictive Validity, Disabilities, Factor Structure
Kobylinski, Amy – ProQuest LLC, 2009
A current admission criterion of a PsyD program was examined for effective profiling of personality characteristics of professional clinical psychology students. The California Psychological Inventory (CPI) was used as the personality assessment of all applicants to the PsyD program. The CPI quadrant score of "Alpha" with a CPI score of…
Descriptors: Personality Assessment, Admission Criteria, Profiles, Clinical Psychology
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Williams, J. Mark G.; Russell, Ian; Russell, Daphne – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 2008
The authors respond to the article by H. F. Coelho, P. H. Canter, and E. Ernst (2007), which reviewed the current status of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT). First, they clarify the randomization procedures in the 2 main MBCT trials. Second, they report posttreatment and follow-up data to show that trial participants allocated to…
Descriptors: Cognitive Restructuring, Depression (Psychology), Psychotherapy, Clinical Psychology
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Girard, Todd A.; Christensen, Bruce K. – Psychological Assessment, 2008
The correlation between a short-form (SF) test and its full-scale (FS) counterpart is a mainstay in the evaluation of SF validity. However, in correcting for overlapping error variance in this measure, investigators have overattenuated the validity coefficient through an intuitive misapplication of P. Levy's (1967) formula. The authors of the…
Descriptors: Error of Measurement, Computation, Psychiatric Services, Correlation
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Hughes, Matthew; Ventura, Susie; Dando, Mark – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2007
This paper argues that the emotional state of students' contributions need to be addressed in an online learning community. If feelings of fear, anger or isolation can lead to withdrawal or conflict then the potential for learning is reduced and a facilitator of an online course needs to manage these emotions at an early stage. Therefore, a…
Descriptors: Discussion Groups, Online Courses, Computer Mediated Communication, Stress Variables
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Kamhi, Alan G. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2006
Purpose: In this afterword, I will offer some final thoughts on this clinical forum by considering a central question of EBP--how experimental validation is defined--to illustrate the difficulty involved in implementing EBP. Method: The comments draw on critical reviews I have received on my article in this forum and conversations I have had with…
Descriptors: Program Validation, Clinical Psychology, Criticism, Enrichment Activities
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Westen, Drew; Nakash, Ora; Thomas, Cannon; Bradley, Rebekah – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 2006
The relevance of attachment theory and research for practice has become increasingly clear. The authors describe a series of studies with 3 aims: (a) to validate measures of attachment for use by clinicians with adolescents and adults (b) to examine the relation between attachment and personality pathology, and (c) to ascertain whether factor…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Pathology, Adolescents, Personality Problems
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Fey, Marc E. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2006
Purpose: This paper is a personal reaction to Gillam and Gillam's treatise on evidence-based decision making in schools. This evaluation focuses principally on the costs and benefits of clinicians' search for external evidence, potential problems associated with efforts to grade that evidence, and the integration of this evidence with "internal"…
Descriptors: Speech Language Pathology, Child Language, Language Impairments, Reader Response
Borrero, Carrie S. W.; Vollmer, Timothy R. – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 2006
We evaluated interventions designed to reduce multiply controlled problem behavior exhibited by a young boy with developmental disabilities, using a multiple baseline design. Each intervention was designed to address a specific social function of problem behavior. Results showed that the separate interventions were useful in reducing problem…
Descriptors: Developmental Disabilities, Behavior Modification, Behavior Problems, Methods Research
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McEneaney, John E.; Lose, Mary K.; Schwartz, Robert M. – Reading Research Quarterly, 2006
A Response to Intervention (RTI) model proposes identification of students with reading difficulties on the basis of a series of progressively more intensive instructional interventions over extended periods of time. Learners with serious reading difficulties are those whose difficulties are not resolved by the interventions. Three advantages of…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Intervention, Teaching Methods, Reading Research
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Sheikh, Alia I.; Marotta, Sylvia A. – Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development, 2005
This article is a cross-validation of R. G. Tedeschi and L. G. Calhoun's (1996) original study of the development of the Posttraumatic Growth Inventory (PTGI). It describes several psychometric properties of scores on the PTGI in a sample of middle- to old-aged adults with a history of cardiovascular disease. The results did not support the…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Program Validation, Item Analysis, Misconceptions
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Bedregal, Luis E.; Paris, Manuel Jr.; Anez, Luis M.; Shahar, Golan; Davidson, Larry – Social Indicators Research, 2006
As part of a broader study aimed at evaluating perceived alliance with service providers and level of satisfaction with services received, 103 monolingual Spanish speaking Hispanic women were interviewed. Participants were receiving ongoing behavioral health treatment at three different community service provider sites located in the greater New…
Descriptors: Females, Interviews, Mental Health, Psychometrics
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McDougal, James L.; Nastasi, Bonnie K.; Chafouleas, Sandra M. – Psychology in the Schools, 2005
Increasingly, schools across the nation are encountering behaviorally challenging students entering primary grade classrooms. With this project, we sought to effectively intervene with such students within a public school setting using an empirically derived team approach adapted for use in an applied setting. The Behavioral Consultation Team…
Descriptors: Primary Education, Program Evaluation, Prereferral Intervention, Public Schools