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.
<P>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. </P>
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<P>His coauthors are also in the Department of Psychology at SUNY-Albany. </P>
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