About this Book
WAIS-IV, WMS-IV, and ACS: Advanced Clinical Interpretation provides clinicians with the data, analysis, and tools to make the most accurate interpretation of assessment scores possible. Providing normative data, index scores, and analysis of the impact of such things as demographic factors and response bias, this book provides clinicians with clinically relevant information to better interpret scores on these assessment tools. Early chapters focus on methodological and psychometric issues, while later chapters illustrate the use of the tools and measures in specific clinical populations. The book provides information on using these measures with the elderly, Alzheimer's patients, and those with traumatic brain injury, schizophrenia, or autism.
The book begins with a detailed overview of the instruments, and information on the cognitive abilities required to complete the instrument tasks. The joint factor structure of the WAIS-IV/WMS-IV and normative data for new indexes are presented. The ACS scores, procedures, and subtests are introduced including: additional index scores and measures of learning and memory errors; external and embedded suboptimal effort tools to identify examinees that may be putting forth inadequate effort; demographic norms and the Test of Premorbid Functioning (TOPF) designed to determine if a patient's current test performance is expected or represents a decline from a previous level of ability; serial assessment tools to evaluate change in cognitive abilities over time; and measures of social cognition and executive functioning.
Written by the developers of the assessments, this book provides information that can be found nowhere else. The extensive data is accompanied by case studies putting the analysis into context for better understanding, and chapters close with a summary of key learning points.