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Luria - Nebraska Neuropsychological Battery.(LNNB.)
Golden, Charles J.; Purisch, Arnold D.; Hammeke, Thomas A.
USA:Western Psychological Services:1985
The LNNB is primarily values for diagnosis of cognitive deficits including lateralization and localization
of focal brain impairments. Also detects very specific problems, as well as mild impairment that might
otherwise go unnoticed.
Range: 15+ years
Time: approx 1 1/2-2 1/2 hours
Administration: Individual
Materials: Form 1 Set:- Manual, stimulus cards, cassette, administration and scoring booklet (2 copies),
response booklet.
Luria's Neuropsychological Investigation.
Christensen, Anne-Lise
USSR:Munksgaard:1975
Diagnoses type and severity of brain injury. Used as a basis for planning rehabilitation measures for
brain-damaged adults.
Range: adult
Administration: Individual
Materials: Manual, set of cards, text.
Make a Picture Story.(MAPS.)
Shneidman, Edwin S.
USA:Society for Projective Techniques and Personality Assessment:1952
Primary use is as an aid in infering psychodynamic interpretations and structural aspects of personality.
Measures fantasies, defences and impulses. Subject chooses a background, populates it with figures
and tells a story to account for his choices.
Range: 6-65 years
Time: varies
Administration: Individual
Materials: Manual, figure location sheet (22 copies), 67 figures, 22 backgrounds, figure identification
card.
Marital Attitude Evaluation.(MATE.)
Schutz, Will
USA:Consulting Psychologists Press:1978
Designed to explore the relationship betweeen husband and wife or other closely related or attached
persons as a basis for further discussion and analysis of relationships.
Range: adult
Time: approx 9-15 mins
Administration: Individual or group.
Marital Attribution Style Questionnaire.(MASQ.)
Ficham, F.; Beach, S.; Nelson, G.
USA:1987
Examines the extent to which causal and responsibility attributions for spouse behaviour distinguish distressed from non-distressed spouses and predict the affective impact and intended responses of such behaviour.
Range: adult
Administration: Individual
Materials: Student Test Report, copy of questionnaire.
Marital Communication Inventory.(MCI.)
Bienvenu, Millard J.
USA:Family Life Publications:1979
Designed to help counselors assess the communication in marital relationships.
Range: adult
Time: approx 20 mins
Administration: Individual or group
Materials: guide, scoring key, socio-economic information form (5 copies), form F (5 copies), Form M (5 copies), supplement.
Marital Interaction Coding System.(MICS.)
Useful for describing the content and process of a couple's interaction, usually while attempting to negotiate a marital conflict
Materials: code.
Marital Pre-Counseling Inventory.
Stuart, Richard B.
Rev. edition.
USA:Research Press:1973
Intended for use in marital and/or family counseling in which the primary goal is the restoration and/or
enhancement of positive marital interaction and in which the basic assumption is that any person can
modify his behaviour upon learning appropriate responses to the resources available in his immediate
environment. This inventory is designed to help assess the strengths and desires of marital partners as
individuals and partners.
Range: adult
Materials: Manual, inventory.
Marital Satisfaction Inventory.(MSI.)
Snyder, Douglas K.
USA:Western Psychological Services:1981
A multidimensional self-report measure that identifies separately for each spouse the nature and extent
of marital distress along 9 basic measured dimensions of their relationship: Affective communication,
problem solving communiction, time together, disagreement about finances, sexual dissatification, role-
orientation, family history of ditress, dissatifaction with children, conflict over childrearing.
Range: adult
Time: approx 30-40 mins
Administration: Individual
Materials: Manual, 11 scoring keys, administration booklet, profile forms, answer sheets.Student Test
report available.
Marital Status Inventory.(MSI.)
Weiss, Robert L.; Gerreto, Mary
USA:1975
Provides a measure of dissolution potential.
Range: adult
Time:varies
Administration: couples
Materials: Inventory, related articles.
Maslach Burnout Inventory. (MBI.) 2nd ed.
Maslach, Christina; Jackson, Susan E.
USA:Consulting Psychologists Press:1986
Attempts to measure 'burnout' a syndrome said to occur frequently among individuals whose work involves interaction with others at an intense level. Assesses emotional exhaustion, depersonalisation, and feelings of reduced personal accomplishment.
Range: adult
Time: untimed, approx 20 mins
Administration: Individual or group
Materials: Manual, Human services demographic data sheet (25 copies), Human services survey booklet (25 copies), scoring key.
Matson's Evaluation of Social Skills with Youngsters.(MESSY.)
Matson, Johnny L.
USA:International Diagnostic Systems:1990
Identifies children with deficient social skills. Can be used to help develop individualized education
programs, evaluate intervention programs and evaluate social skilss of children with handicaps.
Provides teacher rating and self rating versions.
Range: 4-18 years
Time: 10-25 mins
Administration: Individual or group
Materials: Manual, teacher rating form, self rating form. Student Test Report available.
The Maudsley Obsessive-Compulsive Inventory.
USA
Materials: questionnaire (6 copies).
McCarthy Scales of Children's Abilities.
McCarthy, Dorothea
USA:Psychological Corporation:1972
Assesses intellectual and motor development of children. Use toy-like materials and game-like tasks that
children enjoy. Designed for both sexes, as well as for children from various ethnic and socio-economic
groups. The subtests are Verbal Ability, Short-Term Memory, Numerical Ability, Perceptual
Performance, and Motor Coordination.
Range: 2 1/2-8 1/2 years
Administration: Individual
Materials: Manual, record form, drawing booklet, card book, box of 12 cubes, set of 12 grouping
blocks, box of 6 picture puzzles, xylophone with mallet, tape, ball, beanbag, target for beanbag, tube, 2
white cards. (2nd set is missing bean bag and tape) (additional record forms and drawing booklets
loosely on shelves in compactus).
See also: Kaufman Clinical Evaluation of Young Children with the McCarthy Scales.
McGill Pain Questionnaire.(MPQ.)
Melzack, Ronald
Canada:1975
Assesses and diagnoses pain states. Used in clinical research to provide quantitative information that
can be treated statistically, detect differences among the different methods used to treat pain, and
provide information about the effects of a particular method on the sensory, affective and evaluative
dimensions of pain. The questionnaire consists primarily of 3 major classes of word descriptors-
sensory, affective and evaluative-that can be used by patients to specify subjective pain experience. The
short form can be used where the standard MPQ takes too long to administer.
Range: adult
Time: 15 mins
Administration: Individual or group
Materials: 2 articles (with administrative procedures), 2 questionnaires.
Means-Ends Problem Solving.(MEPS.)
Platt, Jerome J.; Spivack, George
USA:Division of Addiction Research and Treatment, Hahnemann University, PA, USA:1975
An instrument designed to measure an important component of real-life problem solving. The
component measured is the individual's ability to orient himself to and conceptualize means of moving
towards a goal.
Range: adolescent-adult
Administration: Individual or group
Materials:"The MEPS Procedure Manual" "Interprsonal Problem Solving Group Therapy for Adults and
Adolescents" 1976, "Workbook for Training in Interpersonal Problem-Solving for Adults and
Adolescents" 1976, "Training in Interpersonal Problem Solving Skills" 1980.
Measure to Assess Caregiver Perceptions of the Sexual Knowledge, Experience,
and Needs, of People with Mild Intellectual Disability.(PSKEN.)
Schreck, Agi
Australia:1991
Administration: Individual
Materials: Questionnaire, 19 pictures.
Measure to Assess Sexual Knowledge, Experience, and Need of People with
Mild Intellectual Disability.(SKEN.)
Schreck, Agi
Australia:1991
Administration: Individual
Materials: Questionnaire and 19 pictures.
Memory Assessment Scales.(MAS.)
Williams, J. Michael
Psychological Assessment Resources:1991
The MAS consists of 12 subtests based on 7 memory tasks: verbal span, list learning, prose memory,
visual span, visual recognition, visual reproduction and names-faces. The battery assesses short term,
verbal and visual memory fuctioning. It reliably and accurately differentiates normal from
neurologically impaired individuals.
Range: 18-90 years
Time: 40-45 mins
Materials: Manual, stimulus card set, record form (25 copies).
Memory Cards Test [Computer File].
See:Colorada Neuropsychology Tests : Explicit Memory, Implicit Memory and Problem Solving
[Computer File].
Memory for Designs Test.(MFD.)
Graham, Frances K.; Kendall, Barbara S.
USA:Psychological Test Specialists:1960
Assesses perceptual-motor coordination. Used to differentiate between functional behaviour disorders
and those associated with brain injury.
Range: 8.5 years-60 years
Time: approx 10 mins
Administration: Individual
Materials: Manual (3 copies), set of plates (2 copies), norms and scoring samples (3 copies), related
articles.
Merrill-Palmer Scale of Mental Tests.
Stutsman, Rachel
USA:Stoelting:1948
Measures intelligence in children. Used as a substitute for or a supplement to the Binet Scale. 19 task
assessment and oral response tests measuring language skills, motor skills, dexterity and matching.
Range: 18 months - 4 years
Administration: Individual
Materials:Manual (2 copies), Stutsman Color Matching Test, Wallin Pegboard A, Wallin Pegboard B,
Stutsman Buttoning Test, Stutsman Stick & String Test, Scissors, Stutsman Language Test, Stutsman
Picture Formboard 1, Mare-Foal Formboard, Sequin-Goddard Formboard, Stutsman Picture
Formboard 2, Stutsman Picture Formboard 3, Pintner Manikin Test, Decroly Matching Game, Stutsman
Nested Cubes, Woodworth-Wells Association Test, Stutsman Copying Test, Stutsman Pyramid Test,
Stutsman Little Pink Tower Test, Blocks for Kohs Block Design Test, record form (100 copies).
Michigan Picture Test.
Andrew, Gwen; Hartwell, Samuel W.; Hutt, Max L.; Walton, Ralph E.
USA:Science Research Associates:1953
Differentiates between emotionally maladjusted children and emotionally welladjusted children.
Diagnoses type and severity of conflicts and identifies children in need of
rehabilitative/psychotherapeutic procedures. Four core pictures presented to both sexes yield scores on
several emotional areas.Eight additional pictures for boys and eight for girls yield information about
areas and types of conflict.
Range: 8-14 years
Time: approx 1 hour
Administration: individual
Materials: Manual, 16 pictures, analysis sheet (10 copies).
Microcog : Assessment of Cognitive Functioning [Computer File].
Powell, D.; Kaplan, E.; Weintraub, S.; Catkin, R.
USA:Psychological Corporation:1994
Assesses mild to moderately impaired cognitive functioning via computer. Includes 18 subtests which
contribute to summary scores for nine interrelated areas of functioning: Attention/Mental Control,
Memory, Reasoning/Calculation, Spatial Processing, Reaction Time, Information Processing Accuracy,
Information Processing Speed, General Cognitive Functioning and General Cognitive Proficiency
Range: 18-89 years
Time: Standard form - 60 mins, Brief form - 30 mins
Administration: Individual
Materials: User's guide (DOS version), Manual, 3.5" diskette, 5.25" diskette. Designed to run exclusively
on Psytest assessment management system.
Middlesex Elderly Assessment of Mental State.(MEAMS.)
Golding, Evelyn
UK:Thames Valley Test Co.:1989
Developed as a screening test to detect gross impairment of specific cognitive skills in elderly people. It
is designed to assist assessors to differeniate between functional illnesses and organically based
cognitive impairments. The test will not tell you how intelligent a person is but will tell you whether
there is reason to suspect that parts of the brain are working less efficiently than they should.
Range: elderly
Time:10 mins
Administration: Individual
Materials: Description and validation booklet, Manual and test material-version A, Manual and test
material-version B, scoring sheet (2 copies).
Mill Hill Vocabulary Scale.
Raven, J. C.
UK:H. K. Lewis & Co.:1958
Measures an individual's ability to recall information and state it verbally. Used for diagnosis,
counseling and school placement.
Range: 14+ years (senior form 2)
Time:approx 15 mins
Administration: individual or group
Materials: Manual (2 copies), Australian Supplement (2 copies), form 2 Senior (2 copies).
Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory-II.(MCMI-II.)
Millon, Theodore
2nd edition.
USA:National Computer Systems:1977
Evaluates adults with emotional or interpersonal problems. Contains 25 scales measuring both the state
and trait features of personality.
Range: 18+ years
Time: 20-30 mins
Administration: Individual or group
Materials: Manual, related article, test booklet (10 copies), handscoring worksheet (50 copies), 25
answer keys, user's guide for hand-scoring, hand scored answer sheet (40 copies), hand scoring profile
(50 copies).
Millon Index of Personality Styles.(MIPS.)
Millon, Theodore
USA:Psychological Corporation:1994
Provides an omnibus measure of personality, suitable for use with normal adults who may be experiencing situational or transitional problems. May be used in vocational or career selection or to identify and assist adults with difficulties in marital or family situations.
Range: adult
Time: approx 30 mins
Administration: Individual or group
Materials: manual, 15 answer keys, answer sheet (25 copies), test booklet (25 copies).
Minnesota Form Board Test.
Likert, R.; Quasha, W. H.
Revised
Australia:Australian Council for Educational Research:1963
Designed to measure the ability of a person to perceive spatial relationships or to visualize how a
number of separate sections would appear when combined to form a whole diagrammatic figure.
Range:13.5 years-adult
Time: approx 30 mins
Administration: Individual or group
Materials: Manual (4 copies), question booklet DB (4 copies), question booklet DA (6 copies), scoring
key DA (2 copies), scoring key DB (2 copies), answer sheet (100 copies).
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory - Adolescent. (MMPI-
A.)
Butcher, James N.; Williams, Carolyn L.; Graham, John R.; Archer, Robert P.; Tellegan, Auke Ben-
Porath ,. Yossef S.; Kaemmer, Beverly
USA:University of Minnesota Press:1992
478 item test based on the original MMPI's most productive aspects retaining the basic clinical
scales;uniform T scores for 8 basic scales, 15 new content scales-new scales: school problems, low
aspiratons, alientaton and conduct problems. 3 new supplementary scales: alcohol and drug problems
and assessment of immaturity includes inconsistency measures VRIN & TRIN
Range: 13-19 years
Time: 45-60 mins
Administration: Individual or group
Materials:Manual, softcover test booklet (10 copies), profile for basic scales (50 copies), answer sheets
(50 copies), profile for content and supplementary scales (50 copies), profile for Harris-Lingoes and SI
subscales (50 copies), scoring keys.
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory.(MMPI.)
Hathaway, S. R.; McKinley, J. C.
USA:University of Minnesota Press:1967
Designed to provide as objective assessment of some of the major personality characteristics that affect
personal and social adjustment. 10 scales: hypochondriasis, depression, hysteria, psychopathic-deviate,
masculinity-femininity, paranoia, psychasthenia, scizophrenia, hypomania and social introversion.
Range: 16+ years
Time: varies 45-90 mins
Administration: Individual or group
Materials: Manual, box of cards (2 copies), individual record sheet and profile. Group Form: booklets,
answer sheets, profiles, scoring keys (2 sets).
See also: Hathaway An Atlas For the Clinical Use of the MMPI (on book shelves).
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory - 2.(MMPI-2.)
Hathaway, S. R.; McKinley, J. C.
USA:University of Minnesota Press:1991
A restandardised version of the MMPI. Retains the most valuable traditional features of the original test,
while addressing contemporary concerns. Contains 567 items, some from the original MMPI, others
designed to augment this test. Item order was changed, making it possible to score all the Basic Scales
from the first 370 items.
Range: 18+ years
Administration: Individual or group
Materials: Starter Kit: Manual, Test booklet (2 copies), answer sheets, 3 sets of scoring keys, 3 profile
forms. related article.
Minnesota Pre-School Scale: Form A.
Goodenough, Florence L.; Maurer, Katherine M.; Van Wagenen M. J.
USA:American Guidance Service:1940
A series of 26 short subtests which provide an estimate of verbal and nonverbal intelligence.
Range: 18 months-6 years
Time: 30 mins
Administration: Individual
Materials: Manual, record booklet (25 copies), test materials.
Mirror Text Reading Test [Computer File].
See: Colorada Neuropsychology Tests : Explicit Memory, Implicit Memory and Problem Solving
[Computer File].
Mirror Triad Reading Test [Computer File].
See: Colorada Neuropsychology Tests : Explicit Memory, Implicit Memory and Problem Solving
[Computer File].
Mobility Inventory for Agarophobia.
Chambless, D. L.; Caputo, G. C.; Jasin, S. E.; Gracely, E. J.; Williams, C.
UK:Permagon Press:1985
Used to measure self-reported severity of avoidance behaviour and frequency of panic attacks
experienced by agrophobic clients for use in short term therapy sessions.
Range:adult
Time: few minutes
Administration: Individual or group
Materials: Student Test Report (includes copy of test).
Modern Occupational Skills Tests.
Johnson, Charles; Blinkhorn, Steve; Wood, Robert
Australia:Australian Council for Educational Research:1990
Battery of 9 task-specific tests grouped into 3 levels of task complexity. All adapted for Australian use.
Level 1: Verbal Checking; Numerical checking; Filing. Level 2 Numerical Awareness; Spelling and
Grammar; Word Meanings. Level 3: Numerical Estimation; Technical Checking; Decision Making
Range: adolescent-adult
Time: varies depending of which tests are used
Administration: Individual or group
Materials: Manual, 9 test booklets, 9 administration instructions, 9 test taker's guides, Administrator's
Test Record, Task Inventory.
Mooney Problem Checklists.
Mooney, Ross L.; Gordon, Leonard V.
USA:Psychological Corporation:1950
Identifies individuals who want or need help with personal problems. Used for individual counseling,
increasing teacher understanding of students, and preparing students for counseling interviews.
Range: adolescent-adult
Time: approx 30 mins
Administration: Individual or group
Materials: Manual Adult Form (2 copies), adult form, Manual 1950 revisions, J form, H form, C form
(multiple copies of each form). Extra copies of forms are stored loosely on the shelf with test.
Motivation Analysis Test.(MAT.)
Sweney, Arthur B.; Cattell, Raymond B.; Horn John L.
USA:Institute for Personality and Ability Testing:1982
Contains 4 objective subtests which provide a measure of the 10 clinically important dynamic structures
found to be representative and comprehensive in coverage of late adolescent and adult motivation.Five
are basic drives and five are interests that develop and mature through learning.
Range: 17+ years
Time: 55-65 mins
Administration: Individual or group
Materials: Manual, test booklet, answer sheet (2 copies), profile, 4 scoring keys
Motor Screening [Computer File].
see: Cambridge Neuropsychological Test Automated Battery [Computer File].
MTS Visual Search and MTS Vis/Srch (simple) [Computer File].
see: Cambridge Neuropsychological Test Automated Battery [Computer File].
Multidimensional Aptitude Battery.(MAB.)
Jachson, Douglas N.
USA:Research Psychologists Press:1984
Assesses aptitudes and intelligence for adolescents and adults. Used for clinical and research purposes
with normal and deviant populations, including prison inmates, neurotic, psychotic, and neurologically
impaired psychiatric patients, persons in business and industry, and high school and college students.
Consists of 2 sets of scales, 5 verbal and 5 non-verbal. Can be used as a group alternative to the WAIS-
R.
Range: Adolescents and adults
Time: approx 70 mins (i.e. 7 mins per test)
Administration: Individual or group
Materials: Manual, Verbal Battery Booklet and answer sheet, Performnce Battery Booklet and answer
sheet, Record Form, 4 Scoring Templates.
Multiscore Depression Inventory.(MDI.)
Berndt, David J.
USA:Western Psychological Services:1986
MDI measures specific aspects of depression as well as severity. It detects subtle variations in milder
forms of depression. Self-report questionnaire comprising 118 true-false items
Range: 13+ years
Time: less than 10 mins
Administration: Individual or group
Materials: Manual, Hand-scored answer sheet, Profile forms Male/Female, Scoring keys, 2 prepaid test
report (filed). Pamphlet: Computer Sevices for MDI.
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator.(MBTI.)
Myers, Isabel Briggs; Briggs, Katherine C.
USA:Consulting Psychologists Press:1985
Measures personality dispositions and interests based on Jung's theory of types. This measure is
concerned with the differences in the way people perceive and in the way they make decisions. It
provides 4 scales: extraversion-introversion (EI), sensing-intuition (SN), thinking-feeling (TF) and
judgement-perception (JP)
Range: 12 +years
Time: approx 20-30 mins
Administration: Individual or group
Materials: Manual (2 copies), scoring keys (form G), self-scorable (form G) answer sheet, self scorable
question booklet (form G), self-scorable report form, report form, answer sheet, question booklet.
National Adult Reading Test.(NART.)
Nelson, Hazel E.; Willison, Jonathan
2nd edition.
UK:NFER-NELSON:1991
Measures the effects of dementia, alcohol, drugs, or illness on the intellectual functioning of adults. A
test designed to provide a means of estimating the premorbid intelligence levels of adults suspected of
suffering from intellectual deterioration. Its development was based on the finding that reading ability is
highly correlated with general IQ in the normal population, but is maintained at or near its premorbid
level in patients with dementia.
Range: adult
Time: Varies
Administration: Individual
Materials: Manual (2 copies), word card (2 copies), word booklet (2 copies), answer/record sheets.
Naylor - Harwood Adult Intelligence Scale.(NHAIS.)
Naylor, G. F. K.; Harwood, Elsi
Australia:Australian Council for Educational Research:1972
An Australian adaptation of the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale designed also as an equivalent form
of WAIS.
Range: adult
Administration: Individual
Materials: Manual, word list card, object assembly shield, letter symbol test key, letter symbol score
key, 2 spiral bound books, 4 object assembly boxes, 1 block design box.
Neale Analysis of Reading Ability.
Neale, Marie D.
Revised
Australia:Australian Council for Educational Research:1988
Assesses the reading standard of
children. Consists of a set of graded passages for testing the rate, accuracy and comprehension of oral
reading and a set of supplementary tests for diagnostic assessments. Suitable for use with learning
disabled students.
Range: 5-12 years
Time: approx 30 mins
Administration: Individual
Materials: Manual, reader, Form 1 (11 copies), Form 2 (8 copies), diagnostic tutor (16 copies).
Neale Scales of Early Childhood Development.
Neale, Marie D.
Australia:Science Research Associates:1976
Designed to identify, in early childhood individual patterns of behaviour, of talent, interests, aptitudes
and deficits which may affct subsequent growth and learning. Combine the best features of the
interview technique and the involvement of 'significant others' in the young child's life with the use of
objective data of a child's current functioning compared with his age peers.
Range:3 1/2 - 6 1/2 years
Time: varies
Administration: Individual
Materials: Manual, activity materials, information and score sheets, scoring templates.
Neo Personality Inventory.(NEO-PI.)
Costa, Paul T.; McCrae, Robert R.
USA:Psychological Assessment Resources:1985
Based on the five factor model (neuroticism, extraversion, openness to experience, agreeableness,
conscientiousness). Particularly useful in the areas of clinical and counselling psychology, psychiatry
and behavioural medicine.
Range: adult
Time: approx 30 mins
Administration: Individual or group
Materials: Manual,20 scoring keys, Form S booklet (7 copies), Form S profile form (25 copies) and
answer sheet (22 copies).
NEO Personality Inventory-Revised.(NEO-PI-R.)
Costa, Paul T.; McCrae, Robert R.
USA:Psychological Assessment Resources:1992
Provides a comprehensive overview of emotional, interpersonal, experiental, attitudinal and
motivational styles. It is a concise measure of the five major domains of personality, as well as the six
traits or facets that define each domain. Available in two 243-item versions. Form S (self-report) is
normed by sex for adults and college students; Form R (written in the 3rd person for peer, spouse, or
expert ratings) is normed by sex for adults.
Range: adult
Time: approx 35-45 mins
Administration: Individual or group
Materials:Manual, Form S item booklet, Form R (women) item booklet, Form R (men) item booklet, 2
profile forms, feedback sheet, answer sheet
See also: NEO software System [Computer File].
NEO Software System [Computer File].
Costa, Paul T.; McCrae, Robert R.; PAR staff
IBM Version 2
USA:Psychological Assessment Resources:1994
Combines computerized administration of the NEO PI-R with scoring and interpretation for both the
NEO PI-R and the NEO-FFI.
Materials: Program Design and Manual, 2 disks
For use on IBM PCs or compatibles.
Neonatal Behavioral Assessment Scale.(NBAS.)
Brazelton, T. Berry
2nd edition.
USA:March of Dimes:1984
Intended as a means of scoring interactive behaviour. It is an attempt to score the infant's available
reponses to his environment and so indirectly, his effect on the environment. Essentially aimed at
evaluating the normal newborn infant. Describes their behavioural differences, their coping mechanisms
and their competencies.
Range: 37-44 gestation
Administration: Individual
Materials: Manual (including copy of scale), video, testing kit, "Using the NBAS with Infants and their
families.
Neuropsychological Assessment of the School - Aged Child.
Anderson, Vicki; Lajoie, Genevieve; Bell, Richard
Australia:Dept. of Psychology University of Melbourne:1995
Provides a way of comparing the functioning of 'normal' children in the areas of memory, learning and higher level conceptual and organisational skills with those which which may deviate from the normal as a result of brain damage and disease in childhood. Used to enhance the quality of diagnosis and rehabilitation planning.
Range: 7-13 years
Administration: Individual
Materials:Manual, Block Span Board, 9 Spatial Learning Test cards, Tower of London, 14 Tower of London cards.
Neuroticism Scale Questionnaire.(NSQ.)
Cattell, Raymond B.; Scheier, Ivan H.; Institute for Personality and Ability Testing
USA:Institute for Personality and Ability Testing:1961
A brief 40-item inventory measuring degree of neuroticism or "neurotic trend". The NSQ is designed to
give a properly weighted total of 6 personality dimensions selected as those accounting for the most
marked differences between clinically judged neurotics and normals.
Range: 18+ years
Time: approx 10 mins
Administration: Individual or group
Materials: handbook, scoring key, test booklet.
The Nottingham Health Profile.
Hunt, Sonja M.; McKenna, S. P.; McEwen, S. P.
UK:Galen Researh & Consultancy:1991
Self administerd questionnaire.Designed to measure perceived health problems and the extent to which
such problems affect daliy activities, but it is best to regard it as a measure of distress in the physical,
emotional and social domains.
Range: 16+ years
Time: varies
Administration: Individual or group
Materials: User's manual, questionnaire.
Nowicki-Strickland Locus of Control Scale for Children.
Nowicki, S.; Strickland B.:1973
Devised to discover locus of control orientation for children from ages 9 through 18 years. Paper and
pencil measure consisting of 40 questions that are answered either by yes or no.
Range: children
Materials: scale and other relevent information. Student Test Reports available.
Occupational Stress Indicator.(OSI.)
Cooper, Cary; Sloan, Stephen; Williams, Stephen
UK:NFER-NELSON:1988
Group administered inventory to assess stress levels within a company and to identify the causes of
stress so that appropriate human-resource management decisions can be made. Emphasis is on
assesssing and monitoring stress within groups rather than on making an individual diagnosis.
Range: adults
Time: 30-40 mins
Administration: group
Materials: Management Set:- management guide, administration card, 8 score keys, booklets (15
copies), biographical questionnaire (15 copies), individual profile sheet (15 copies), data collection form,
group score sheet, group profile sheet, data supplement.
Occupational Stress Inventory (Research Version).(OSI.)
Osipow, Samuel H.; Spokane, Arnold
USA:Psychological Assessment Resources:1992
Measures dimensions of occupational adjustment of individuals employed primarily in technical,
professonal and managerial positions in school, service and manufacturing settings. Designed to
measure 3 dimensions of occupational adjustment: occupational stress, psychological strain and coping
resources. Inventory comprises 3 questionnaires that may be administered together or separately:-
Occupational Roles Questionnaire, Personal Strain Questionnaire, Personal Resources
Questionnaire.
Range: adult
Time: approx 20-40 mins
Administration: Individual or group
Materials: Manual, item booklet (25 copies), rating sheet (50 copies), profile forms (50 copies).Student
Test Report available.
Offer Parent - Adolescent Questionnaire.(OPAQ.)
Offer, Danial
USA:Center for the Study of Adolescence, Michael Reese Hospital:1982
Measures parents' perceptions of their adolescent's self-image and provides a measure of
communication among members of an adolescent's family.
Range: parents
Time: 10-15 mins
Administration: Individual or group
Materials: question booklet for sons, question booklet for daughters, answer sheet (2 copies), (manual
missing).
The Offer Self Image Questionnaire for Adolescents.(OSIQ.)
Offer, Daniel
4th
edition.
USA:Center for the Study of Adolescence, Michael Reese Hospital:1989
Assesses teenagers' self image and personality adjustment. Evaluates 11 categories of adolescent self-
image: psychological self social self, sexual self, familial self and coping self.
Range: 13-19 years
Time: approx 40 mins
Administration: Individual or group
Materials: Manual (2 copies), male questionnaire (2 copies), female questionnaire (2 copies), answer
sheet (multiple copies), related articles and newsletters. Student Test Reports available.