Main description:

This essential single-source guide to multimethod psychological assessment of disordered thinking and perception offers practical insights for applying key evaluation measures and strategies, along with important contextual considerations.

It provides mental health professionals with valuable empirical and interpretive support as they answer assessment questions for diagnostic and decision-making purposes.

Chapters are written by renowned assessment psychologists recognized for their expertise and contributions in developing and researching specific assessment instruments or topics. They provide up-to-date information about widely used self-report measures and interview techniques, performance-based tests, and cognitive and neuropsychological measures, including their conceptual basis, psychometric properties, empirical support, and key interpretive elements.

Additional chapters review special developmental and cross-cultural considerations, as well as guidelines for forensic assessments.

Two in-depth case examples provide comprehensive illustrations of the multimethod evaluation process with an adolescent and an adult.

Contents:

Preface
Contributors
Contents
Part I. Introduction
Chapter 1. Definitions and Concepts
Irving B. Weiner & James H. Kleiger
Chapter 2. The Importance of Multimethod Psychological Assessment
Robert F. Bornstein
Part II. Self-Report Measures
Chapter 3. Interview Methods
Ali Khadivi
Chapter 4. Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 (MMPI-2)
David S. Nichols
Chapter 5. Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2-RF (MMPI-2-RF)
Anthony M. Tarescavage & Martin Sellbom
Chapter 6. Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI)
Morgan N. McCredie, Christopher J. Hopwood & Leslie C. Morey
Chapter 7. Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory (MCI-IV)
James P. Choca
Chapter 8. Rating Scales
James H. Kleiger
Part III. Performance-Based Measures
Chapter 9. Rorschach Comprehensive System (RCS)
Irving B. Weiner
Chapter 10. Rorschach Performance Assessment System (R-PAS)
Gregory J. Meyer & Joni L. Mihura
Chapter 11. Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)
Hedwig Teglasi
Chapter 12. Wartegg Drawing Completion Test (WDCT)
Alessandro Crisi
Part IV. Cognitive and Neuropsychological Measures
Chapter 13. Intelligence Measures
John Reddon, Salvatore B. Durante & Donald H. Saklofske
Chapter 14. Neuropsychological Measures
Jed Yalof
Part V. Special Topics
Chapter 15. Forensic Considerations
Marvin W. Acklin
Chapter 16. Developmental Considerations
Sandra W. Russ & Alexis W. Lee
Chapter 17. Cross-Cultural Considerations
Bruce L. Smith
Part VI. Case Illustrations
Chapter 18. Case Illustration- Adolescent
James H. Kleiger
Chapter 19. Case Illustration- Adult
Irving B. Weiner
Author Index
Subject Index