Dawn P. Flanagan & Alan S. Kaufman 
Essentials of WISC-IV Assessment [PDF ebook] 

A successor to the extremely popular Essentials of WISC-III/WPPSI-R Assessment(0-471-34501-6), Essentials of WISC-IV Assessment provides beginning and seasoned clinicians comprehensive guidelines to administering, scoring, and interpreting the latest revision of the Wechsler Intelligence Scales for Children. Featuring the popular Essentials format of call-out boxes, Test Yourself questions and step-by-step instructions, this handy resource also includes strengths and weaknesses of the instrument, practical clinical applications, and illustrative case reports. This detailed guide to using this immensely popular measure of intelligence is a must-have for anyone involved in the psychological testing of children.

Table of Content

Series Preface.

One: Introduction and Overview.

Two: How to Administer the WISC-IV.

Three: How to Score the WISC-IV.

Four: How to Interpret the WISC-IV.

Five: Strengths and Weaknesses of the WISC-IV.

Six: Clinical Applications: A Review of Special Group Studies
with the WISC-IV and Assessment of Low-Incidence Populations.

Seven: Clinical Applications: Assessment of Gifted, Learning
Disabled, and Culturally and Linguistically Diverse
Populations.

Eight: Illustrative Case Reports.

Appendix A: Definitions of CHC Abilities.

Appendix B: CHC Abilities Measured by Major Intelligence
Tests.

Appendix C: WISC-IV Subtest g-Loadings, by Age Group and
Overall Sample.

Appendix D: Psychometric, Theoretical, and Qualitative
Characteristics of the WISC-IV.

Appendix E: WISC-IV Interpretive Worksheet.

Appendix F: General Ability Index (GAI) Conversion Table.

Appendix G: Summary of Analyses of WISC-IV Indexes.

Appendix H: Norms Tables for Clinical Clusters.

References.

Annotated Bibliography.

Index.

Acknowledgments.

Authors.

Contributors.

About the author

Dawn P. Flanagan, Ph D, is a Professor of Psychology at St.
John’s University, Jamaica, New York, and the author of
several books, including Essentials of Cross-Battery Assessment
(with Ortiz) and Essentials of WJ III® Cognitive Abilities
Assessment (with Schrank, Woodcock, and Mascolo). The theory upon
which the WISC®-IV is interpreted in this book-CHC
theory-was first introduced in Dr. Flanagan’s book on
the Wechsler Scales, published in 2000 (with Mc Grew and Ortiz).

Alan S. Kaufman, Ph D, is a Professor at Yale University School
of Medicine and is a series editor for the Essentials of
Psychological Assessment series. He has written numerous books on
the Wechsler Scales and intelligence testing, and is the author of
several widely used assessment instruments.