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