Mental Testing in Clinical Practice

Mental Testing in Clinical Practice focuses on the measurement of mental activities in sickness.
The book first offers information on intelligence and personality. Topics include conditions and factors affecting intelligence, clinical uses of intelligence testing, measurement of intelligence, intellectual deterioration, factors determining and influencing personality, and conditions causing breakdown.

The manuscript then surveys speech and language and memory and learning, including conditions and factors influencing speech, measurement of language, nature of memory, disorders of speech, measurement of memory in clinical practice, and tests for the measurement of memory. The publication takes a look at perception and orientation and the future of clinical psychology. Discussions focus on factors affecting perception and orientation and assessment of orientation.

The book is a reliable source of data for readers interested in the process of mental testing in clinical practice.

Contenu

Foreword
Introduction
Chapter 1. Intelligence
Definitions

1. Biological
2. Psychological
3. Operational
4. Developmental
   Conditions and Factors affecting Intelligence
5. Organic Factors
6. Maturation
7. Education
8. Occupation
9. Cultural and Family Environment
10. Personality and Emotional Stability
    Clinical Uses of Intelligence Testing
11. Diagnosis
12. The Assessment of Therapy
    The Measurement of Intelligence
13. Scoring
14. Interpretation of Test Results
    Tests for the Measurement of Intelligence
15. Infants (birth to 18 months)
16. Pre-school Children (18-30 months)
17. Children (4-16 years)
18. Intelligence Testing of Adults
19. Assessment of Performance in Old People
    Intellectual Deterioration
20. Measurements Based on Sub-test Scatter
21. Recognition of Organic Signs
22. Summary of Tests of Intellectual Deterioration
    Chapter 2. Personality
    Some Definitions
    Factors Determining and Influencing Personality
23. Physical Factors
24. Intellectual Factors
25. Social and Cultural Factors
    Mechanisms in the Formation of the Personality
    Conditions Causing Breakdown of the Personality
26. Conflict
27. The Repetition of Noxious Stimuli
28. Uncertainty
29. Lack of Need-satisfaction
    Aspects of the Personality which can be Measured
30. The Measurement of Types
31. Needs
32. Traits
33. Adjustment
34. Mood
    Methods of Personality Assessment
35. Rating Scales
36. Questionnaires and Inventories
37. Projective Tests
38. Drawing Tests
39. Verbal Tests
    Chapter 3. Speech and Language
    What is Speech?
    Difference between Expression and Comprehension
    Conditions and Factors influencing Speech
40. Development
41. Intelligence
42. Culture and Upbringing
43. Context
44. Cerebral Dominance
    Disorders of Speech
45. Mental Illness (Schizophrenia)
46. Cerebral Atrophy
47. Focal Cerebral Lesions
    The Measurement of Language
48. Disturbances of Articulation
49. Disturbances of Expression
50. Disturbances of Comprehension
51. Disturbances of Reading (Dyslexia)
52. Disturbances of Writing (Dysgraphia)
    Chapter 4. Memory and Learning
    The Nature of Memory
53. Learning
54. Memory
55. Physiological Basis of Learning and Memory
    The Measurement of Memory in Clinical Practice
    Tests for the Measurement of Memory
56. General Memory Scales
57. The Measurement of Immediate Recall
58. The Measurement of Learning
59. The Measurement of Retention
60. The Measurement of Memory for Personal Experiences
    Chapter 5. Perception and Orientation
    Factors affecting Perception and Orientation
61. Development
62. Intelligence
63. Culture and Upbringing
64. Context
65. Cerebral Structure
66. Cerebral Derangement
    The Assessment of Orientation
67. Visual Agnosia
68. Spatial Agnosia
69. Constructional Apraxia
    Chapter 6. The Future of Clinical Psychology
    Bibliography
    Index