Prediction in Forensic and Neuropsychology : Sound Statistical Practices

by Franklin, Ronald D.; Franklin, Ronald D.; von Eye, Alexander; Javornisky, Gregory

• ISBN13: 9780805832259
• ISBN10: 0805832254
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-12-01
• Publisher: Lawrence Erlbau

Summary

Psychologists are under increasing pressure to demonstrate the ecological validity of their assessment procedures--to show that the recommendations concluding their evaluations are relevant to urgent concerns in the legal and social policy arenas, such as predicting dangerousness, awarding compensation, and choosing a custodial parent. How much damage does a referred patient have? Who or what "caused" the damage? What impact will it have on his or her future life, work, and family? And what can be done to remediate the damage? The purpose of this book is to providesound objectivemethods for answering these questions. It integrates the knowledge of experienced practitioners who offer state-of-the-art summaries of the best current approaches to evaluating difficult cases with that of basic theorists who describe emerging methods in both predictive and inferential statistics, such as Bayesian networks, that have proven their value in other scientific fields. Arguably, the enterprise of psychological assessment is so interdependent with that of data analysis that attempts to make inferences without consideration of statistical implications is malpractice.Prediction in Forensic and Neuropsychology: Sound Statistical Practicesclarifies the process of hypothesis testing and helps to push the clinical interpretation of psychological data into the 21st century. It constitutes a vital resource for all the stakeholders in the assessment process--practitioners, researchers, attorneys, and policymakers.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Acknowledgments	viii
List of contributors	xi
Introduction	1	(4)
Advocacy in the Forensic Practice of Neuropsychology	5	(24)
Claude A. Ruffalo
Neuropsychological Hypothesis Testing	29	(36)
Ronald D. Franklin
Bayesian Inference and Belief Networks	65	(24)
Ronald D. Franklin
Joachim Krueger
Neuropsychological Evaluations as Statistical Evidence	89	(34)
Ronald D. Franklin
Joachim Krueger
Assessing Reliable Neuropsychological Change	123	(26)
Gordon J. Chelune
Configural Frequency Analysis in the Practice of Neuropsychology	149	(22)
Alexander von Eye
Christiane Spiel
Michael J. Rovine
Actuarial Assessment of Malingering: Rohling's Interpretive Method	171	(38)
Martin L. Rohling
Jennifer Langhinrichsen-Rohling
L. Stephen Miller
Recovery of Function	209	(50)
Aarne Kivioja
Ronald D. Franklin
The Prediction of Violent Behavior	259	(24)
Selma Ke Jesus-Zayas
Allen B. Fleming
Author Index	283	(14)
Subject Index	297	(17)
Web Index	314