Practitioner's Guide to Symptom Base Rates in the General Population

A Brief Overview of Base Rates.- Control Groups: Adult Control Groups.- College students.- Combat veterans.- Community members.- Family practice.- General practice patients.- Internal medicine.- Litigants.- Medical and Dental students.- Neurology.- Nonsmokers.- Normal.- Occupational.- Psychiatric adults.- Child and Adolescent Control Groups.- Clinic referred children.- Delinquents.- Elementary school children.- High school students.- Psychiatric referred children.- Secondary school students.- Special Education students.- Elderly Control Groups.- Alzheimer’s disease spouses.- Frail elderly.- Nursing home.- References.- Symptom Index.

"Base Rates are an extremely important part of clinical practice. This book provides that information and does so in a concise and easy reference manner. It is complete with thousands of symptoms, as well as representative populations. For neuropsychologists, this is definitely worth owning, especially in conjunction with the earlier publication [Practitioner's Guide to Symptom Base Rates in Clinical Neuropsychology]. 4 Stars!"
Christopher J. Graver, PhD, University of Michigan Health System. Published in Doody's Book Review.
 
"... a valuable guide to locating literature that offers answers to questions we may want to answer in clinical and forensic evaluations ... a valuable resource for clinical, forensic, and research use ...."
Paul R. Lees-Haley, Ph.D., Huntsville, Alabama, Applied Neuropsychology

Dr. Robert McCaffrey is a Professor of Psychology at the State University of New York in Albany. He is a leading figure in the neuropsychology community, a Diplomate of the American Board of Professional Neuropsychology and the American Board of Professional Disability Consultants. He is also a Fellow of the National Academy of Neuropsychology and the American College of Professional Neuropsychology. In 2006 he will assume editorship of the journal Neuropsychology Review.
His coauthors are also in the Department of Psychology at SUNY-Albany.

As with the previous volume, this book would be the only single source that combines such an extensive array of information about base rates in the general population