Determined additional data on the reliability and validity of brief versions of the Depression Adjective Checklist by reanalyzing the data for Forms E, F, and G. Suggests the brevity and relatively high intercorrelation among the lists are assets when repeated measures are needed or many variables are measured. (Author/JAC)

Examines the Ball Corporation's method of employee training. Emphasis is on training on the production line: the use of a worker incentive program, a taskteam approach to efficient new plant startups and expansions, and a well-planned employee training program based on both technical familiarity and psychological attitudes. (CT)

Children are considered "disturbed" when they behave in ways that are unacceptable to signficant adults in their environment. Diagnosis of such children, however, is more often for administrative purposes than for the purpose of preventing further and more serious disturbance. (Author/GC)

Concludes that psychologists in Utah are not biased by their religions, or the relationship between the two when integrating case data to assign formal diagnoses. (Author)

A critique is presented of trends in sex differences studies over the past few years. Such studies have failed to study possible integration of sex role identity as a developmental process, and have often neglected self-definitions in favor of stereotypes. A new approach for measuring androgynous competencies is suggested. (Author)

Children referred for psychological evaluation had been administered the Rorschach test and the WISC-R, among other tests, for diagnostic purposes. Significant relationships were found between groups for some variables after which prediction formulas were developed for estimates and use of verbal terminology associated with IQ levels. (Author)

Sixty-eight parents of children with alleged child sexual abuse (CSA) were surveyed 4 months after visiting an interdisciplinary CSA evaluation clinic in order to examine the extent to which recommendations were recalled and implemented. Results reveal that 9% of parents recalled recommendations for medical follow-up, 79% recalled recommendations…

A survey was conducted to catalog the assessments used by 125 practitioners to evaluate the problem behaviors displayed by clients with mental retardation. Results indicate most practitioners rated functional assessment procedures as extremely or very useful. Findings are discussed with emphasis on the difficulties in conducting functional…

Recent decades have seen major changes in measurements of cognitive ability and interpretation of results. Theory describing the factorial structure of cognitive ability has blossomed. Advances in psychometric and statistical tools available to test developers have facilitated application of better theory to new assessment instruments.(SM)

Provides a brief overview of functional behavior assessment and contrasts functional behavior assessment and traditional psychological assessment. Messick's (1995) theory of construct validity is presented and then applied to the evaluation of the validity of functional behavior assessment measures. Finally, implications and guidelines of current…

Investigates the factoral validity of the Millon Adolescent Clinical Inventory (MACI) in a sample of 250 adolescent offenders. Results revealed a two-factor structure for the seven clinical scales. Findings suggest that the MACI may provide important information that psychologists find useful in the formulation of treatment plans as well as…

This study diagnosed 39 autistic adolescents using both the Diagnostic Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-III) and the revised version (DSM-III-R) criteria. New DSM-III-R criteria include both verbal and nonverbal impairments, stressing communication and its social use. DSM-III criteria identified 25 children as autistic, while DSM-III-R…

Reviews and critiques relevance of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Third Edition-Revised (DSM-III-R) for school psychological practice. Presents five misguided assumptions upon which DSM-III-R use is based, dealing with medical model conceptualization of behavior; reliability; validity; relevance for special education…

Responds to critiques by Reynolds and by Hynd of previous article (Gresham and Gansle, this issue) which reviewed relevance of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Third Edition-Revised (DSM-III-R), and noted irrelevance of DSM-III-R for school psychology practice. Addresses misconceptions/misconstruals of objective facts in…

Surveyed 172 social workers to determine prevalence of history of childhood abuse and extent to which background and personal characteristics affect clinical judgments about sexual abuse. Twenty-one percent of women and 22% of men reported sexual abuse history. Major factors that predicted credibility ratings of sexual abuse vignettes included…