Conducting Psychological Assessment A Guide for Practitioners

by Wright, A. Jordan

• ISBN13: 9781119687221
• ISBN10: 1119687225
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2020-11-03
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

Beginning-to-end, step-by-step guidance on how to conduct multi-method psychological assessments from a leader in the field

The Second Edition of Conducting Psychological Assessment: A Guide for Practitioners delivers an insightful overview of the overall integrative psychological assessment process. Rather than focus on individual tests, accomplished assessment psychologist, professor, and author A. Jordan Wright offers readers a comprehensive roadmap of how to navigate the multi-method psychological assessment process.

This newest edition maintains the indispensable foundational models from the first edition and adds nuance and details from the author’s last ten years of clinical and academic experience. New ways of integrating and reconciling conflicting data are discussed, as are new models of personality functioning.

All readers of this book will benefit from:

• A primer on the overall process of psychological assessment
• An explanation of how to integrate the data from the administration, scoring, and interpretation phases into a fully conceptualized report
• Actual case examples and sample assessment cases that span the entire process

Perfect for people in training programs in health service psychology, including clinical, counseling, school, and forensic programs, Conducting Psychological Assessment also belongs on the bookshelves of anyone conducting assessments of human functioning.

Author Biography

A. JORDAN WRIGHT, PHD, ABAP, is an assessment psychologist and faculty in the Counseling Psychology program at New York University, where he runs the Center for Counseling and Community Wellbeing, NYU's training clinic. He has published several books on assessment, including the Handbook of Psychological Assessment (6^th edition, Wiley, 2016), Essentials of Psychological Assessment Supervision (Wiley, 2019), and Essentials of Psychological Tele-Assessment (Wiley, 2020). He is on the executive board of the American Board of Assessment Psychology, is a past board member of the Society for Personality Assessment, and is a past president of APA's Section IX (Assessment) of Division 12.

Table of Contents

Preface

Acknowledgements

PART I Conducting Psychological Assessment

INTRODUCTION The Hypothesis Testing Model

CHAPTER 1 The Initial Clinical Assessment: Clinical Interviewing and Hypothesis Building

CHAPTER 2 Selecting Tests

CHAPTER 3 Testing

CHAPTER 4 Integrating Data

CHAPTER 5 Writing Reports

CHAPTER 6 Providing Feedback

PART II Case Studies in Psychological Assessment

CHAPTER 7 A Woman With Poor Attention

CHAPTER 8 A Woman With Interpersonal Problems

CHAPTER 9 A Young Man Who Steals

CHAPTER 10 An Adolescent Girl With Test Anxiety

CHAPTER 11 An Aggressive Boy

CHAPTER 12 An Adolescent Girl With School Problems

References

Index