Evidence‐Based Assessment

Abstract

As part of the evidence‐based practice movement, a noticeable shift has occurred in the psychological assessment literature, with greater attention focused on the ways in which assessments are conducted and used to guide practice. This advance has also led to the development of evidence‐based assessment, an approach to clinical evaluation that emphasizes the use of research and theory to guide the selection of constructs, the methods and measures used in the assessment, and the interpretation of the resulting assessment data. This entry reviews the current state of evidence‐based assessment efforts and the scientific and logistic challenges that will need to be addressed in order to facilitate the identification and dissemination of evidence‐based assessment practices.

Evidence-based assessment in a transtheoretical and paradigmatic approach

“…Practice based on empirical evidence -to bring useful information to cliniciansmust use research tools, methods and strategies that are of high scientific quality (especially psychometric) and which are published in good scientific journals, but at the same time they must be tools that are clinically significant and culturally sensitive (Therrien & Hunsley, 2015). Some general recommendations can be made regarding tools used in diagnosis that are based on empirical evidence.…”