Background and Objectives: Guidelines for bariatric surgery demand a psychological evaluation of applicants. The aim of this study was to evaluate if the presence of “psychological risk factors” predicts postoperative weight loss after gastric bypass. Methods: Medical records of obese women who underwent bariatric surgery between 2000 and 2004 were reviewed. Psychological assessment consisted o...

reduced default rates of 17.7%, 2) 45% reduction in psychological assessment duration, 3) 64.4% reduction in wait time for psychological assessment, 4) 63.3% reduction in ASD psychological assessment cycle time, 5) 32.8% reduction in ASD diagnostic process cycle time, 6) 28.1% reduction in clinic time usage, 7) enhanced case management and delivery of interim intervention services in family-cen...

This article updates earlier reviews of recurrent headache disorders published in 1982 and 1992, selectively reviewing research published since 1990. Current issues in assessment (headache diagnosis, psychophysiology, comorbid psychopathology, quality-of-life assessment, and new assessment technologies) and psychological treatment (efficacy, therapeutic mechanisms, treatment delivery, and integ...

Free AccessPlanning a Career in Psychological AssessmentLessons Learned From the EAPA Winter School 2021Kay Brauer, René T. Proyer, Samuel Greiff, Anna Brown, Fabian Gander, Johann-Christoph Münscher, Anu Realo, Diego Rivera, Jérôme Rossier, and Lisa WagnerKay BrauerKay Department of Psychology, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Emil-Abderhalden-Str. 26-27, 06108 Halle, Germany, E-mail...