Smith Justin D
a Center for Prevention Implementation Methodology , Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences , Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.
J Pers Assess. 2017 Mar-Apr;99(2):113-116. doi: 10.1080/00223891.2016.1217873.
This special section contains empirical and conceptual articles pertaining to the broad topic of teaching, training, and supervision of assessment. Despite some evidence of a decline in recent decades, assessment remains a defining practice of professional psychologists in many subfields, including clinical, counseling, school, and neuropsychology, that consumes a consequential proportion of their time. To restore assessment to its rightful place of prominence, a clear agenda needs to be developed for advancing teaching and training methods, increasing instruction to state-of-the-art methods, and defining aims that could be elucidated through empirical inquiry. The 7 articles in this special section provide a developmental perspective of these issues that collectively provide practical tools for instructors and begin to set the stage for a research agenda in this somewhat neglected area of study that is vital to the identity of professional psychology. Additionally, 2 comments are provided by distinguished figures in the field concerning the implications of the articles in the special section to health services psychology and the competencies-based movement in applied psychology.
本专题包含了与评估的教学、培训和督导这一广泛主题相关的实证性和概念性文章。尽管近几十年来有证据表明评估有所减少，但在包括临床、咨询、学校和神经心理学在内的许多子领域，评估仍然是专业心理学家的一项决定性实践，占据了他们相当一部分时间。为了使评估恢复其应有的突出地位，需要制定一个明确的议程，以推进教学和培训方法，增加对最新方法的指导，并确定可以通过实证研究阐明的目标。本专题中的7篇文章提供了对这些问题的发展视角，共同为教师提供了实用工具，并开始为这个对专业心理学身份至关重要但在一定程度上被忽视的研究领域设定研究议程。此外，该领域的杰出人士提供了2条评论，涉及专题文章对健康服务心理学和应用心理学中基于能力的运动的影响。
