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.

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

About the Author :
Stephen N. Haynes, PhD, is Professor of Psychology at the University of Hawai'i at Ma¿noa in Honolulu. William H. O'Brien, PhD, is Professor of Psychology at Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio. Joseph Keawe'Aimoku Kaholokula, PhD, is Associate Professor and Department Chair of Research and Evaluation in the Department of Native Hawaiian Health in the John A. Burns School of Medicine at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa in Honolulu.

Review :
"...Haynes et al. illustrate the process of case formulation by using what they refer to as the functional analytical clinical case diagram (FACCD). The FACCD is rich in detail and requires considerable knowledge of psychopathology, assessment methods, and intervention science." (PsycCRITIQUES, February 2012)