Handbook of Psychodiagnostic Testing
Analysis of Personality in the Psychological Report
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Beschreibung
Since the debut of the original edition, the Handbook of Psychodiagnostic Testing has been an invaluable aid to students and professionals performing psychological assessments. The new Fourth Edition continues in that tradition, taking the reader from client referral to finished report, demonstrating how to synthesize details of personality and pathology into a document that is focused, coherent, and clinically meaningful.
As with the previous editions, authors Kellerman and Burry offer a systematic framework for choosing the most relevant material from seemingly overwhelming amounts of test data. Separate chapters offer clear rationales for each component of the report (e.g., cognitive functioning, interpersonal behavior, control mechanisms), and how they relate to one another. Helpful summaries follow each chapter, and tables and charts provide salient facts and findings at a glance.
Features of the updated Fourth Edition:
A clear blueprint for writing effective, clinically integrative psychological reports.
Emerging areas of interest in testing, including ethnic and language issues.
Guidelines for assessing strengths and potential as well as pathology.
Review of current diagnostic nomenclature, with discussion of evolving DSM categories and recognized clinical entities outside the DSM system.
Brand-new sections on the major standardized intelligence tests.
Expanded chapter devoted to testing counselors, teachers and parents.
Help for writing–anxiety: overcoming blocks, getting past role conflicts, resisting speculation, and more.
The Handbook makes an elegant student resource by showing how reports can reflect not just the subject’s individuality, but the tester’s as well. All professionals who engage inpsychological assessment will find it an invaluable resource as well.
The Handbook of Psychodiagnostic Testing is an invaluable aid to students and professionals performing psychological assessments. It takes the reader from client referral to finished report, demonstrating how to synthesize details of personality and pathology into a document that is focused, coherent, and clinically meaningful.
Authors Kellerman and Burry offer a systematic framework for choosing the most relevant material from seemingly overwhelming amounts of test data. Separate chapters offer clear rationales for each component of the report and how they relate to one another. Helpful summaries follow each chapter, and tables and charts provide salient facts and findings at a glance.
This new edition covers emerging areas in borderline and narcissistic pathologies, psychological testing of preschool children, and bilingual populations. It also discusses the most current clinical issues and evaluating populations on which standard psychological tests have not been standardized.
Offers a central resource for the construction and organization of psychological reports Helps both students and professionals write reports based on the particular needs and conflicts of the individual patient Provides a model for constructing a psychodiagnostic report that integrates and synthesizes personality data derived from the standard projective battery Covers emerging areas in borderline and narcissistic pathologies, psychological testing of preschool children, and bilingual populations Summarizes the current diagnostic nomenclature Discusses the most current clinical issues, including narcissistic and borderline phenomena, the unique problems of minority testing, evaluating populations on which standard psychological tests have not been standardized, and special consideration for bilingual patients
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Henry Kellerman
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From the reviews of the fourth edition:
"This discussion of the various elements involved in psychological assessments emphasizes the analysis of personality, especially anxiety. … Psychology students and professional psychologists are the intended audience. … This book is helpful for graduate psychology students and young professionals learning how to write good psychological reports, especially the personality section which always is the most difficult to formulate. It is appealing to those who embrace a psychodynamic or psychoanalytic theoretical persuasion." (Gary B. Kaniuk, Doody’s Reviews Service, August, 2008)
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