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Direct linkSpengler, Paul M.; White, Michael J.; Aegisdottir, Stefania; Maugherman, Alan S. – Counseling Psychologist, 2009
The reactions by Ridley and Shaw-Ridley (EJ832451) and Lichtenberg (EJ832452) to the authors' meta-analysis on the effects of experience on judgment accuracy add positively to what is hoped will become an ever more focused discourse on this most basic question: How can mental health clinical decision making be improved? In this rejoinder, the…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Psychological Evaluation, Construct Validity, Counseling Psychology
Peer reviewedStrohmer, Douglas C.; Spengler, Paul M. – Journal of Mental Health Counseling, 1993
Reviews material related to American Mental Health Counselors Association Clinical Judgment Project. Recommendations include invoking more sensitive analyses of clinical judgment process, establishing defensible diagnostic and treatment criteria, attending to threats to statistical conclusion validity, and increasing attention to counselor…
Descriptors: Counseling, Counselor Attitudes, Mental Health Workers, Psychological Evaluation
Aegisdottir, Stefania; White, Michael J.; Spengler, Paul M.; Maugherman, Alan S.; Anderson, Linda A.; Cook, Robert S.; Nichols, Cassandra N.; Lampropoulos, Georgios K.; Walker, Blain S.; Cohen, Genna; Rush, Jeffrey D. – Counseling Psychologist, 2006
Clinical predictions made by mental health practitioners are compared with those using statistical approaches. Sixty-seven studies were identified from a comprehensive search of 56 years of research; 92 effect sizes were derived from these studies. The overall effect of clinical versus statistical prediction showed a somewhat greater accuracy for…
Descriptors: Counseling Psychology, Effect Size, Meta Analysis, Psychological Evaluation
Peer reviewedSpengler, Paul M.; Strohmer, Douglas C. – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 1994
Study of 119 counseling psychologists revealed that counselor individual differences in cognitive complexity, but not preferences for client problems, moderated cognitive processes that lead to bias in clinical judgment. Counseling psychologists with lower cognitive complexity were more likely to form biased clinical judgments than were those with…
Descriptors: Bias, Clinical Diagnosis, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style
Aegisdottir, Stefania; Spengler, Paul M.; White, Michael J. – Counseling Psychologist, 2006
In this rejoinder, the authors respond to the insightful commentary of Strohmer and Arm, Chwalisz, and Hilton, Harris, and Rice about the meta-analysis on statistical versus clinical prediction techniques for mental health judgments. The authors address issues including the availability of statistical prediction techniques for real-life psychology…
Descriptors: Meta Analysis, Mental Health, Prognostic Tests, Psychological Evaluation
Peer reviewedSpengler, Paul M.; And Others – Counseling Psychologist, 1995
Proposes a prototypical model for psychological assessment that reformulates a model of the counselor-as-scientist. Integrates the model's theory and research on human inference, judgment, and decision making; research on threats to accurate clinical prediction; and findings about counselor characteristics associated with effective judgment…
Descriptors: Counseling Psychology, Counseling Techniques, Counseling Theories, Counselor Role
