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The Handbook of Psychological Assessment, Third Edition offers busy professionals and graduate students a complete review of today's most commonly used psychological assessment tests. This step-by-step guide condenses countless manuals and texts into one easy-to-use volume and points out the most efficient methods for selecting tests, evaluating interview data, and integrating results into a cohesive psychological report. Readers familiar with the successful previous editions will find updated systems for evaluating the classic tests: Wechsler Intelligence Scales, Bender-Gestalt, Rorschach, Thematic Apperception Test (TAT), Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI/MMPI-2), projective drawings, and California Psychological Inventory. Each test is reconsidered for validity and overall reliability in light of current clinical thought and scientific development. Additional chapters cover new and revised tests and the increased importance of treatment planning in the age of managed care. This updated and expanded Third Edition includes: Updated systems for evaluating the classic tests New and revised tests, such as the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory for Adolescents (MMPI-A) and the new Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC III) New sections on ethics and test selection A new chapter on the Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory (MCMI) Expanded coverage of neuropsychological assessment Expanded coverage of treatment planning, including a new chapter on systematically integrating test results into a treatment plan Like its predecessors, the Handbook of Psychological Assessment, Third Edition is an indispensable reference for graduate students, clinical psychologists, therapists, school psychologists, and counselors.

From the reviews of the Second Edition of the Handbook of Psychological Assessment

"[The book's] purpose has been splendidly realized by Groth-Marnat, who has combined current scientific and clinical understandings and clear writing with an excellent sense of organization." --Bertram H. Rothschild, ARBA 92

". . . a commendable volume in which the author condenses information, normally in several locations, into one reading . . . an excellent text for graduate courses on psychological assessment. It would familiarize the student with the entire enterprise of clinical assessment and provide enough of a how-to guide for the student to carry out an assessment practicum." --Contemporary Psychology

"For both practitioners and students of psychological assessment, the expanded and updated Handbook provides guidance to the selection, administration, evaluation, and interpretation of the most commonly used psychological tests." --Reference and Research Book News

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• Preface(p. xiii)
• Chapter 1 Introduction(p. 1)
• Organization of the Handbook(p. 1)
• Role of the Clinician(p. 3)
• Patterns of Test Usage in Clinical Assessment(p. 5)
• Evaluating Psychological Tests(p. 9)
• Validity in Clinical Practice(p. 20)
• Clinical Judgment(p. 23)
• Phases in Clinical Assessment(p. 28)
• Recommended Reading(p. 32)
• Chapter 2 Context of Clinical Assessment(p. 33)
• Types of Referral Settings(p. 33)
• Ethical Practice of Assessment(p. 43)
• Assessing Diverse Groups(p. 51)
• Selecting Psychological Tests(p. 58)
• Computer-Assisted Assessment(p. 62)
• Recommended Reading(p. 64)
• Chapter 3 The Assessment Interview(p. 65)
• History and Development(p. 66)
• Issues Related to Reliability and Validity(p. 70)
• Assets and Limitations(p. 71)
• The Assessment Interview and Case History(p. 73)
• Mental Status Examination(p. 79)
• Interpreting Interview Data(p. 84)
• Structured Interviews(p. 85)
• Recommended Reading(p. 94)
• Chapter 4 Behavioral Assessment(p. 95)
• History and Development(p. 97)
• Issues Related to Reliability and Validity(p. 99)
• Assets and Limitations(p. 101)
• Strategies of Behavioral Assessment(p. 102)
• Recommended Reading(p. 117)
• Chapter 5 Wechsler Intelligence Scales(p. 119)
• Testing of Intelligence: Pro and Con(p. 119)
• History and Development(p. 122)
• Reliability and Validity(p. 126)
• Assets and Limitations(p. 129)
• Use with Diverse Groups(p. 132)
• Meaning of IQ Scores(p. 134)
• Cautions and Guidelines in Administration(p. 136)
• WAIS-IV/WISC-IV Successive-Level Interpretation Procedure(p. 138)
• Wechsler Indexes and Subtests(p. 149)
• Assessing Brain Damage(p. 166)
• Assessing Additional Special Populations(p. 173)
• Short Forms(p. 178)
• Recommended Reading(p. 181)
• Chapter 6 Wechsler Memory Scales(p. 183)
• History and Development(p. 184)
• Reliability and Validity(p. 189)
• Assets and Limitations(p. 191)
• Use with Diverse Groups(p. 193)
• Interpretation Procedure(p. 193)
• Interpreting Patterns of Index Scores(p. 196)
• Comparing Scores on the WAIS-IV and the WMS-IV(p. 203)
• Additional Considerations: Malingering and Evaluating Change(p. 205)
• Recommended Reading(p. 206)
• Chapter 7 Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory(p. 207)
• History and Development(p. 209)
• Reliability and Validity(p. 214)
• Assets and Limitations(p. 217)
• Use with Diverse Groups(p. 220)
• Administration(p. 222)
• Interpretation Procedure(p. 223)
• Computerized Interpretation(p. 230)
• Validity Scales(p. 231)
• Clinical Scales(p. 237)
• 2-Point Codes(p. 257)
• MMPI-2 Content Scales(p. 280)
• MMPI-A Content Scales(p. 282)
• Harris-Lingoes and Si Subscales(p. 285)
• Critical Items(p. 288)
• MMPI-2 and MMPI-A Supplementary Scales(p. 288)
• Recommended Reading(p. 294)
• Chapter 8 Million Clinical Multiaxial Inventory(p. 295)
• History and Development(p. 297)
• Reliability and Validity(p. 300)
• Assets and Limitations(p. 302)
• Use with Diverse Groups(p. 306)
• Interpretation Procedure(p. 307)
• Modifying Indices (Validity Scales)(p. 310)
• Clinical Personality Patterns(p. 312)
• Severe Personality Pathology(p. 327)
• Clinical Syndromes(p. 331)
• Severe Syndromes(p. 333)
• Recommended Reading(p. 333)
• Chapter 9 California Psychological Inventory(p. 335)
• History and Development(p. 336)
• Comparison with the MMPI(p. 338)
• Reliability and Validity(p. 339)
• Assets and Limitations(p. 340)
• Use with Diverse Groups(p. 343)
• Interpretation Procedures(p. 343)
• Vector Scale Interpretation(p. 348)
• Individual Scales(p. 349)
• Special Purpose Scales(p. 371)
• Configural Interpretation(p. 372)
• Recommended Reading(p. 384)
• Chapter 10 The Rorschach(p. 385)
• History and Development(p. 386)
• Reliability and Validity(p. 389)
• Assets and Limitations(p. 393)
• Use with Diverse Groups(p. 396)
• Future Directions(p. 396)
• Administration(p. 397)
• Scoring(p. 400)
• Structural Summary(p. 407)
• Interpretation(p. 415)
• Recommended Reading(p. 446)
• Chapter 11 Thematic Apperception Test(p. 447)
• History and Development(p. 447)
• Theoretical Perspectives(p. 450)
• Reliability and Validity(p. 452)
• Assets and Limitations(p. 455)
• Use with Diverse Groups(p. 457)
• Administration(p. 458)
• Typical Themes Elicited(p. 461)
• Scoring Procedures(p. 474)
• Interpretation(p. 482)
• Recommended Reading(p. 483)
• Chapter 12 Screening for Neuropsychological Impairment(p. 485)
• History and Development(p. 486)
• Interviewing for Brain Impairment(p. 489)
• Domains of Neuropsychological Functioning(p. 492)
• Bender Visual Motor Gestalt Test(p. 501)
• Repeatable Battery for the Assessment of Neuropsychological Status(p. 511)
• Recommended Reading(p. 517)
• Chapter 13 Brief Instruments for Treatment Planning, Monitoring, and Outcome Assessment(p. 519)
• Selecting Brief Instruments(p. 520)
• Symptom Checklist-90-R (SCL-90-R) and Brief Symptom Inventory (BSI)(p. 521)
• Beck Depression Inventory(p. 526)
• State Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI)(p. 530)
• Recommended Reading(p. 533)
• Chapter 14 Psychological Assessment and Treatment Planning(p. 535)
• Development and Approaches to Treatment Planning(p. 536)
• A Systematic Approach to Treatment Selection(p. 541)
• Functional Impairment(p. 542)
• Social Support(p. 545)
• Problem Complexity/Chronicity(p. 547)
• Coping Style(p. 549)
• Resistance(p. 551)
• Subjective Distress(p. 553)
• Problem-Solving Phase(p. 556)
• Recommended Reading(p. 558)
• Chapter 15 Psychological Report(p. 559)
• General Guidelines(p. 560)
• Format for a Psychological Report(p. 570)
• Sample Reports(p. 582)
• Recommended Reading(p. 604)
• Appendix A Test publishers/distributors(p. 605)
• Appendix B Testing organizations(p. 609)
• Appendix C WISC-IV Norms Tables for Clinical Clusters(p. 611)
• Appendix D Directions for Hand Scoring the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI-2) Validity and Clinical Scales(p. 621)
• Appendix E Rorschach Norms for Scoring Categories(p. 623)
• Appendix F Rorschach Norms for Ratios, Percentages, and Special Indices(p. 627)
• References(p. 629)
• Author Index(p. 709)
• Subject Index(p. 731)

Notas de autor provistas por Syndetics

Gary Groth-Marnat, PHD, ABPP, is a professor at Pacifica Graduate Institute and is in private practice in Santa Barbara, California. He is the author of four books on assessment and more than 130 journal articles, monographs, and book chapters.