Handbook of Personality Assessment

by Irving B. Weiner (University of South Florida, Tampa, FL ); Roger L. Greene (Pacific Graduate School of Psychology, Palo Alto, CA)

• ISBN13: 9780470190562
• ISBN10: 0470190566
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2008-03-01
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

This comprehensive, balanced guide to personality assessment, written by two of the foremost experts in the field, is sure to become the gold standard of texts on this topic. The Handbook of Personality Assessment covers everything from the basics, including a historic overview and detailed discussion of the assessment process and its psychometric foundations, to valuable sections on conducting the assessment interview and the nature, interpretation, and applications of the most popular self-report (objective) and performance-based (projective) measures. A concluding section of special topics such as computerized assessment, ethical and legal issues, and report writing are unique to this text.

Table of Contents

Preface

Basic Considerations

History of personality assessment

Early Events

Emergence of Personality Psychology

World War II and the Expansion of Clinical Psychology

Trends Over Time: Shrinkage and Growth

Concluding Comments

The personality assessment process

Purposes of Personality Assessment

Preparing for Personality Assessments

Conducting Personality Assessments

Interpreting Personality Assessment Data

Reporting Personality Assessment Findings

Psychometric Foundations Of Assessment

Reliability

Validity

Clinical Decision Making

Impediments to Accurate Decisions

Concluding Comment

Ethical considerations in personality assessment

Student Disclosure of Personal Information

Bases for Assessments

Use of Assessments

Informed Consent in Assessments

Release of Test Data

Interpreting Assessment Results

Assessment by Unqualified Persons

Obsolete Tests and Outdated Test Results

Test Scoring and Interpretation Services

Explaining Assessment Results

Maintaining Test Security

Training Students in Psychological Assessment

Diversity

Self-Report Inventories

Overview of self-report inventories

Nature of Self-Report Instruments

Item Characteristics

Methods of Scale Development

Administration and Scoring

Standardization Group

Validity Assessment

Interpretive Process

Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory

History

Administration

Scoring

Assessing Validity

Interpretation

Applications

Psychometric Foundations

Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-A

History

Administration

Scoring

Assessing Validity

Interpretation

Applications

Psychometric Foundations

Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory-III

History

Administration

Scoring

Assessing Validity

Interpretation

Applications

Psychometric Foundations

Personality Assessment Inventory

History

Administration

Scoring

Assessing Validity

Interpretation

Applications

Psychometric Foundations

NEO Personality Inventory-Revised

History

Administration

Scoring

Assessing Validity

Interpretation

Applications

Psychometric Foundations

Performance-Based Measures

Rorschach Inkblot Method

Nature of the Rorschach Inkblot Method

History

Administration

Coding and Scoring

Interpretation: Structural Variables

Interpretation--Thematic Variables

Interpretation--Card Pull

Applications

Psychometric Foundations

Thematic Apperception Test

Nature of the Thematic Apperception Test

History

Administration

Coding

Interpretation: Card Pull

Interpretation: Story Meaning

Applications

Psychometric Foundations

Figure drawing methods

Nature and History of Figure Drawing Methods

Administration and Scoring

Interpretation

Applications

Psychometric Foundations

Sentence completion methods

Nature of Sentence Completion Methods

History

Administration

Scoring

Interpretation

Applications

Psychometric Foundations

Appendix. Computer Generated Interpretive Reports

Author Index

Subject Index

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