Chapter 1: An overview of assessment: Definition and scope Chapter 2: Psychological assessment: A brief retrospective overview Chapter 3: Basic measurement and scaling concepts Chapter 4: Reliability: Basic concepts and measures Chapter 5: Validity: Basic concepts and measures Chapter 6: Developing a psychological measure Chapter 7: Cross-cultural test adaptation and translation Chapter 8: The practice of psychological assessment: Controlling the use of measures, competing values and ethical practice standards Chapter 9: Administering psychological assessment measures Chapter 10: Assessment of cognitive functioning Chapter 11: Measures of well-being Chapter 12: Personality assessment Chapter 13: Career counselling assessment Chapter 14: Computer-based and internet-delivered assessment Chapter 15: The use of assessment measures in various applied contexts Chapter 16: Interpreting and reporting assessment results Chapter 17: Factors affecting assessment results Chapter 18: What the future holds for psychological assessment.