| Autor: |
Sears, Samuel, Rodrigue, James, Sirois, Brian, Urizar, Guido, Perri, Michael |
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Journal of Clinical Psychology in Medical Settings; Sep1999, Vol. 6 Issue 3, p303-316, 14p |
| Abstrakt: |
Multidisciplinary pre-cardiac transplantation evaluations determine an individual's ability to benefit from potential transplantation. Psychologists are routinely consulted to perform psychological evaluations and testing to examine the candidate's current functioning and to forecast future functioning in the event of transplantation. The establishment of appropriate norms for psychological tests is an ethical imperative to provide high quality psychological consultations that maximize the utility of information gathered. The purpose of this paper is to present pre-cardiac transplant norms for a battery of psychological tests in a large population of consecutive transplant candidates. Together with other recently published norms on alternative test batteries, these norms allow the transplant psychologist to select from a range of psychological tests that span multiple domains of critical importance including the affective, behavioral, coping, cognitive, and health related quality of life domains. These norms appear to set a standard of practice for the use of psychological tests by a consulting transplantation psychologist. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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Complementary Index |
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