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.

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.

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 Studieswith the WISC-IV and Assessment of Low-Incidence Populations.Seven: Clinical Applications: Assessment of Gifted, LearningDisabled, and Culturally and Linguistically DiversePopulations.Eight: Illustrative Case Reports.Appendix A: Definitions of CHC Abilities.Appendix B: CHC Abilities Measured by Major IntelligenceTests.Appendix C: WISC-IV Subtest g-Loadings, by Age Group andOverall Sample.Appendix D: Psychometric, Theoretical, and QualitativeCharacteristics 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.