Handbook of Psychodiagnostic Testing: Analysis of Personality in the Psychological Report - Softcover

Kellerman, Henry; Burry, Anthony

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0205195075 ISBN 13: 9780205195077

Publisher: Pearson, 1996

Synopsis

After administering a psychological test, the psychologist must analyze the test data and create a report. This handbook is designed to assist students and professional psychologists in composing psychological reports. This is the only resource available that systematically analyzes both the personality of the patient and the requirements essential for writing test results in relevant, effective reports. All pertinent sectors of the personality are analyzed along with the corresponding sections of the psychodiagnostic report. Each chapter in this book considers a separate aspect of personality so that, as the book unfolds, the report gradually emerges as a precise and meaningful psychological document. By using this book, both students and clinicians will be better equipped to formulate reports based on the particular needs and conflicts of the patients.

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Review

From the reviews of the fourth edition:

"This discussion of the various elements involved in psychological assessments emphasizes the analysis of personality, especially anxiety. ... Psychology students and professional psychologists are the intended audience. ... This book is helpful for graduate psychology students and young professionals learning how to write good psychological reports, especially the personality section which always is the most difficult to formulate. It is appealing to those who embrace a psychodynamic or psychoanalytic theoretical persuasion." (Gary B. Kaniuk, Doody’s Reviews Service, August, 2008)

From the Back Cover

Since the debut of the original edition, the Handbook of Psychodiagnostic Testing has been an invaluable aid to students and professionals performing psychological assessments. The new Fourth Edition continues in that tradition, taking the reader from client referral to finished report, demonstrating how to synthesize details of personality and pathology into a document that is focused, coherent, and clinically meaningful.

As with the previous editions, authors Kellerman and Burry offer a systematic framework for choosing the most relevant material from seemingly overwhelming amounts of test data. Separate chapters offer clear rationales for each component of the report (e.g., cognitive functioning, interpersonal behavior, control mechanisms), and how they relate to one another. Helpful summaries follow each chapter, and tables and charts provide salient facts and findings at a glance.

Features of the updated Fourth Edition:

• A clear blueprint for writing effective, clinically integrative psychological reports.
• Emerging areas of interest in testing, including ethnic and language issues.
• Guidelines for assessing strengths and potential as well as pathology.
• Review of current diagnostic nomenclature, with discussion of evolving DSM categories and recognized clinical entities outside the DSM system.
• Brand-new sections on the major standardized intelligence tests.
• Expanded chapter devoted to testing counselors, teachers and parents.
• Help for writing–anxiety: overcoming blocks, getting past role conflicts, resisting speculation, and more.

The Handbook makes an elegant student resource by showing how reports can reflect not just the subject’s individuality, but the tester’s as well. All professionals who engage in psychological assessment will find it an invaluable resource as well.

Edition details

• Publisher: Pearson
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0205195075
• ISBN 13: 9780205195077
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 226