Clinical Personality Assessment: Practical Approaches (Oxford Clinical Psychology) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0195142586 ISBN 13: 9780195142587

Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc, 2002

Synopsis

This is a revised version of a comprehensive clinical personality assessment volume that was well received by professionals in clinical psychology. Contributors from a diverse range of psychological disciplines address a number of central issues in personality assessment in clinical and forensic settings. The authors were invited to select a key problem area in the field and to emphasize practical issues in their chapters. The result is a work of outstanding variety and depth of coverage with an immediately useful, hands-on focus. The second edition has been updated to include several more timely topics including: psycho physiolocgical methods in assessing emotions, assessment client's marital satisfaction, behaviorial genetic considerations in personality assessment, and assessment of suicide risk. Other topics include ethical considerations in clinical personality assessment, assessment of racial and ethnic minorities, sources of personality information, and problems in personality assessment. A practical, context-based approach is maintained throughout, and a useful appendix providing an index of psychological assessment procedures concludes the book. Clinical Personality Assessment, 2/e, is considered a defintitve text in the field of assessment, appealing to both students and practicing clinical psychologists.

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About the Author

Dr. James N. Butcher is Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychology at the University of Minnesota and he is an internationally recognized and widely published authority on personality assessment. Dr. Butcher is currently the Editor of Psychological Assessment and serves as a consulting editor for numerous other journals in psychology and psychiatry. Personality assessment, abnormal psychology, cross-cultural personality factors, and computer-based personality assessment are the areas in which Dr. Butcher has maintained active research programs. He is the author of The MMPI-2 in Psychological Treatment (Oxford University Press) as well as many other books.

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0195142586
• ISBN 13: 9780195142587
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 592
• Editor: Butcher