assessing adolescent and adult intelligence, second edition features comprehensive coverage of clinical and neuropsychological assesment, focusing on the wais-iii, but also covering the wj iii, the kait, and several brief measures of intelligence. the 2005 release of this popular text now features an alternative interpretive system for the wais-iii that integrates normative assessment (performance relative to age peers) with ipsative assessment (performance relative to the persons own mean level), which draws heavily on cattell-horn-carroll (chc) theory. three new appendixes include the alternate interpretive system, which is intended to supplement the interpretive approach already covered in the book; a blank interpretive worksheet to permit examiners to conduct all of the calculations and decision-making that is necessary to apply the seven steps of this new system to the wais-iii profiles of the people they test; and norms tables for new combinations of wais-iii subtests that are incorporated into the new interpretive system.