TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Psychological Assessment A1 - Beauvais, John A1 - Martino, Steve A1 - Walker, James S. A1 - Roback, Howard B. A1 - Welch, Larry A2 - Ebert, Michael H. A2 - Leckman, James F. A2 - Petrakis, Ismene L. PY - 2019 T2 - Current Diagnosis & Treatment: Psychiatry, 3e AB - Psychological assessment is the systematic process by which psychologists evaluate characteristics of people (Weiner, 2010). Characteristics may include personality traits, intelligence, neuropsychological functions, psychiatric symptoms or disorders, behaviors and their contingencies, attitudes and beliefs, learning disabilities, academic achievement, school readiness, adaptation to medical illness and disabilities, appropriateness for surgery or organ donation, adaptive and social functioning, coping skills, quality of life, fitness for duty, criminality, and competency to stand trial, among others. It may extend beyond individual characteristics to the assessment of parent–child or couple interactions, family functioning, or group and organizational factors. SN - PB - McGraw-Hill Education CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/03/28 UR - accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1158257614 ER -