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Conducting Psychological Assessment
A Guide for Practitioners
A. Jordan Wright (Author)
9781119687221, Wiley
Paperback / softback, published 17 December 2020
400 pages
27.4 x 21.6 x 2.5 cm, 0.726 kg
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: 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.
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
Subject Areas: Psychology [JM]
