Teaching and Learning Personality Assessment

by Handler, Leonard; Hilsenroth, Mark J.; Hilsenroth, Mark

• ISBN13: 9780805823325
• ISBN10: 0805823328
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-03-01
• Publisher: Lawrence Erlbau

Summary

How do we move from an understanding of the administration, scoring, and interpretation of responses on various personality assessment instruments to the ability to put our understanding into words and communicate it effectively to referral agents and to patients themselves? And how do we transmit that ability to students? Teaching and Learning Personality Assessmentstrives to fill a gap in the literature and in many training programs. The editors have assembled a group of renowned clinicians, noted not only for their own acumen in personality assessment but also for their teaching talent, who present in detail time-tested techniques for teaching assessment. Readers have the opportunity to "sit beside" these seasoned mentors and learn their special skills. Numerous examples illustrate the key concepts. For every instructor of personality assessment who has ever pondered ways to organize a course or to convey difficult material, and for every student who has worried about how to translate theory into practice, in the context of a course or on his or her own, this book will offer enlightenment and provide uniquely practical assistance. It will be important reading for psychologists and trainees at every level of experience. Its clear style, vivid anecdotes, frank discussion of disagreements in the field, and innovative ideas make it an excellent text for both introductory and advanced courses.

Table of Contents

Contributors	xi	(8)
Foreword	xix	(6)
John E. Exner, Jr.
Preface	xxv	(4)
Introduction	xxix
I. SETTING THE STAGE	3	(42)
1 The Importance of Teaching and Learning Personality Assessment	3	(28)
Leonard Handler
Gregory J. Meyer
2 The Trouble With Learning Personality Assessment	31	(14)
J. Christopher Fowler
II. CONCEPTUAL MODELS FOR INTERPRETATION	45	(62)
3 The Experiential Basis of Psychological Testing	45	(16)
Howard D. Lerner
4 Helping Students Integrate Rorschach Structure and Psychological Theory	61	(8)
Philip Erdberg
5 The Impossible Takes a Little Longer: The Role of Theory in Teaching Psychological Assessment	69	(14)
Bruce L. Smith
6 Critical-Thinking Applications in Personality Assessment: Classrooms as Laboratories and Studios	83	(24)
Charles A. Waehler
Harry J. Sivec
III. THE INTERPERSONAL DIMENSION	107	(42)
7 Training in Assessment: Internalization and Identity	107	(12)
Paul M. Lerner
8 Interpersonal and Actuarial Dimensions of Projective Testing	119	(18)
Joseph M. Masling
9 Assessing the Social Subject	137	(12)
Herbert M. Potash
IV. TEACHING AND LEARNING SPECIFIC TEST INSTRUMENTS	149	(176)
10 Teaching the MMPI-2	149	(16)
Roger L. Greene
Poupak Rouhbakhsh
11 Teaching Assessment with the Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory (MCMI-III)	165	(26)
Roger D. Davis
Theodore Millon
12 Teaching and Learning the Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI)	191	(24)
Leslie C. Morey
13 Teaching the Rorschach Comprehensive System	215	(20)
Irving B. Weiner
14 Teaching That First Rorschach Course	235	(12)
Virginia Brabender
15 Approaching the Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)	247	(20)
Phebe Cramer
16 Teaching and Learning the Administration and Interpretation of Graphic Techniques	267	(28)
Leonard Handler
Robert Riethmiller
17 Teaching and Learning the Interpretation of the Wechsler Intelligence Tests as Personality Instruments	295	(30)
Leonard Handler
V. TEACHING AND LEARNING SPECIALIZED ISSUES IN ASSESSMENT	325	(106)
18 Personality Assessment and the Cultural Self: Emic and Etic Contexts as Learning Resources	325	(22)
Richard H. Dana
19 The Rorschach and the Life World: Exploratory Exercises	347	(12)
Constance T. Fischer
20 Teaching Therapeutic Assessment in a Required Graduate Course	359	(16)
Stephen E. Finn
21 A Logical Analysis of Rorschach Autisms	375	(16)
Edwin E. Wagner
22 Using Metaphor to Understand Projective Test Data: A Training Heuristic	391	(22)
Mark J. Hilsenroth
23 Teaching Dissemination of Personality Assessment Results in Graduate Programs	413	(18)
Barry A. Ritzler
VI. TEACHING AND LEARNING ASSESSMENT COURSES	431	(40)
24 Teaching and Learning Issues in an Advanced Course in Personality Assessment	431	(22)
Leonard Handler
J. Christopher Fowler
Mark J. Hilsenroth
25 Teaching Child Assessment from a Developmental-Psychodynamic Perspective	453	(18)
Sandra W. Russ
VII. ASSESSMENT IN INTERNSHIP EXPERIENCES	471	(30)
26 Teaching Assessment Skills in Internship Settings	471	(14)
Robert Lovitt
27 Jumping Into Fire: Intership Training in Personality Assessment	485	(16)
Mark A. Blais
Marla D. Eby
Author Index	501	(12)
Subject Index	513