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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.
List of contents
Preface vii
Acknowledgments ix
Part I Conducting Psychological Assessment 1
Introduction The Hypothesis Testing Model
Chapter 1 The Initial Clinical Assessment: Clinical Interviewing and Hypothesis Building 11
Chapter 2 Selecting Tests 39
Chapter 3 Testing 57
Chapter 4 Integrating Data 65
Chapter 5 Writing Reports 99
Chapter 6 Providing Feedback 133
Part II Case Studies in Psychological Assessment 147
Introduction Case Studies in Psychological Assessment
Chapter 7 A Woman With Poor Attention 151
Chapter 8 A Woman With Interpersonal Problems 187
Chapter 9 A Young Man Who Steals 229
Chapter 10 An Adolescent Girl With Test Anxiety 265
Chapter 11 An Aggressive Boy 301
Chapter 12 An Adolescent Girl With School Problems 333
References 381
Index 387
About the author
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.
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.
Report
"This new addition of Wright's useful text is a tour de force. No one else writes more clearly, practically, and helpfully than Wright about psychological assessment--especially about the complex process of case conceptualization. This book should be required reading in every graduate course on psychological assessment."
Stephen E. Finn, Ph.D.
Founder, Center for Therapeutic Assessment
