Description
This volume brings together leading experts to explore the state of the art of cognitive clinical assessment and identify cutting-edge approaches of interest to clinicians and researchers. The book highlights fundamental problems concerning the validity of assessments that are widely used in cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT). Key directions for further research and development are identified. Updated cognitive assessment methods are described in detail, with particular attention to transdiagnostic treatment, evidence-based practice, cognitive case formulation, and imagery-based techniques.
Chapter
1. Cognitive Clinical Assessment: Contributions and Impediments to Progress
Part I. Cognitive Assessment: Strategies and Practices
2. “Better the Devil You Know”?: A Conceptual Critique of Endorsement
Methods in Cognitive Therapy Assessment
3. Production-Based Assessment in Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy
4. Imagery-Based Cognitive-Behavioral Assessment
5. Assessment of Cognitive Vulnerability to Psychopathology: Issues in Theory and Practice
6. Implementing an Evidence-Based Approach to Cognitive-Behavioral Assessment
Part II. Cognitive Assessment and Diagnosis
7. Dimensionality in Cognitive-Behavioral Assessment
8. The Cognitive Content-Specificity Hypothesis: Contributions to Diagnosis and Assessment
9. Transdiagnostic Cognitive Assessment and Case Formulation for Anxiety: A New Approach
10. Beyond DSM Diagnosis: The Pros and Cons of Cognitive Case Formulation
Part III. Challenges and Continuing Controversies
11. Toward a Validity Framework for Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy Self-Report Assessment
12. Enhancing Measurement Validation in Cognitive Clinical Research with Structural Equation Modeling and Item Response Theory
13. Implicit Measures of Associations: A Case of Exaggerated Promises?
14. Advances in Construct Validity Theory: Implications for Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy Assessment
15. Fresh Pools or Stagnant Streams?: Current Status of Cognitive Clinical Assessment
Assessment in Cognitive Therapy
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