The Rorschach, Assessment of Children and Adolescents: A Comprehensive System Assessment of Children and Adolescents: 182 (Wiley Series on Personality Processes) - Hardcover

Exner Jr., John E.; Weiner, Irving B.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 047155927X ISBN 13: 9780471559276

Publisher: Wiley, 1994

Synopsis

This volume deals specifically with the use of the Rorschach Inkblot Method in the clinical assessment of children and adolescents. It has been revised and updated to reflect numerous developments in the Rorschach Comprehensive System, and to describe advances in the formulation and understanding of developmental psychopathology. The text draws broadly on conceptual formulations and research findings to provide detailed guidelines for describing the personality functioning of young people and identifying major types of psychological disturbance and developmental disorder.

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From the Back Cover:

Volume 3: Assessment of Children and Adolescents provides practical, authoritative guidance in the Rorschach assessment of personality functioning in young people and in the identification of psychological disorders and developmental difficulties. Supported by conceptual formulations and research evidence, this text helps clinical and counseling psychologists deepen their understanding of the Rorschach and sharpen their skill in administering it. The Second Edition includes new material on the issue of projection, revised normative data on young people age 5 to 16, and a demonstration of the recently developed Comprehensive System "search strategy" for interpreting children's and adolescents' records. New to this edition also are sections on interpreting the Schizophrenia Index (SCZI), the Depression Index (DEPI), the Coping Deficit Index (CDI), and the Hypervigilence Index (HVI), and a discussion of bipolar disorder and the dynamic interplay of mania and depression. Subsequent chapters present new formulations of faltering personality development and antisocial behavior and new information on the assessment of learning disabilities and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). A final chapter offers new material on Rorschach-based recommendations in child custody disputes. Throughout the text, explanatory concepts and empirical data are used to link features of normal and abnormal development with response patterns on the Rorschach, which are then linked to concrete criteria for diagnosis and treatment planning. The authors provide fourteen case studies to demonstrate clearly the application of these principles in clinical practice. Based on a system that has, over time, demonstrated both its validity and reliability, this book is an essential resource for all psychologists practicing, teaching, supervising, or researching personality assessment of children and adolescents.

About the Author:

John E. Exner, Jr., born in Syracuse, New York, was an American psychologist. He received a BS and an MS degree in psychology from Trinity University and a PhD in clinical psychology from Cornell University in 1958. Irving B. Weiner, PhD, is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and behavioral Medicine at the University of South Florida and former Director of Psychological Services at the University of South Florida Psychiatry Center in Tampa, Florida. He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and of the Association for Psychological Science, a Diplomat of the American board of Professional Psychology in both Clinical and Forensic Psychology, and a licensed psychologist in the state of Florida and is in the practice of clinical and forensic psychology. He is the author of numerous articles and books, and Editor-in-Chief of the 12-volume Handbook of Psychology.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 047155927X
• ISBN 13: 9780471559276
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 448