Detailed guidelines for assessing individuals suffering from psychological disorders are provided for clinicians, researchers, and students from a wide range of disciplines. Chapters also explain how assessment results can be used to select effective interventions and how clinicians can use standard assessment tools to measure the outcome of treatment. The focus is on specific disorders rather than general assessment, so the arrangement is by problem areas rather than the more usual assessment modalities. Among the problems are panic disorder and agoraphobia, obsessive-compulsive disorder, depression, schizophrenia, personality disorders, couple distress, impulse control disorders, and insomnia. No date is cited for the first edition. Annotation ©2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)