Handbook of Personality Assessment.

Handbook of Personality Assessment -- Contents -- Preface -- About the Authors -- Part 1: Basic Considerations -- Chapter 1: History of Personality Assessment -- Early Events -- Emergence of Personality Psychology -- World War II and the Expansion of Clinical Psychology -- Trends Over Time: Shrinkage and Growth -- Years of Shrinkage -- Years of Growth -- Concluding Comments -- Idiographic and Nomothetic Approaches to Personality Assessment -- Terminology for Categorizing Personality Assessment Measures -- References -- Chapter 2: The Personality Assessment Process -- Purposes of Personality Assessment -- Preparing for Personality Assessments -- Clarifying the Referral -- Selecting the Test Battery -- Obtaining Informed Consent -- Conducting Personality Assessments -- Fostering Comfort and Cooperation -- Obtaining Interpretable Data -- Using Computerized Formats -- Interpreting Personality Assessment Data -- Basis of Inferences -- Effects of Impression Management -- Relevance of Cultural and Experiential Context -- Reporting Personality Assessment Findings -- Providing Identifying Data -- Answering the Referral Questions -- Promoting Readability and Communication Value -- Collaborative Feedback and Therapeutic Assessment -- References -- Chapter 3: Psychometric Foundations of Assessment -- Reliability -- Validity -- Convergent Validity -- Discriminant Validity -- Incremental Validity -- Clinical Decision Making -- Prevalence (Base Rate) Data -- Clinical Versus Statistical Judgment -- Risk Factors and Odds Ratios -- Heterogeneity in Patients Within the Same Diagnostic Group -- Diagnostic Efficiency Statistics -- Cutting Scores -- Impediments to Accurate Decisions -- Vividness (Saliency) -- Confirmatory Bias -- Lack of Feedback on the Accuracy of Interpretations -- Lack of Awareness of Relevant Variables -- Task Complexity -- Incomplete Information.

Concluding Comments -- References -- Chapter 4: Ethical Considerations in Personality Assessment -- Student Disclosure of Personal Information (7.04) -- Bases for Assessments (9.01) -- Use of Assessments (9.02) -- Informed Consent in Assessments (9.03) -- Release of Test Data (9.04) -- Interpreting Assessment Results (9.06) -- Assessment by Unqualified Persons (9.07) -- Obsolete Tests and Outdated Test Results (9.08) -- Test Scoring and Interpretation Services (9.09) -- Explaining Assessment Results (9.10) -- Maintaining Test Security (9.11) -- Training Students in Personality Assessment -- Diversity Issues -- Ethnicity -- Religion and Spirituality -- Sexual Orientation -- Concluding Comments -- References -- Part 2: Self-Report Inventories -- Chapter 5: Overview -- Nature of Self-Report Inventories -- Item Characteristics -- Format for Responding to Items -- "True/Agree" and "False/Disagree" Balance -- Items Written in the Affi rmative or Negative -- Items Used on More Than One Scale -- Breadth and Depth of Items on the Scale -- Inherent Ambiguity in the Meaning of Item Content -- Potential Biases in Item Content -- Weighting Items -- Administration and Scoring -- Reading Level -- Method for Administering Items -- Standardization of Raw Scores -- Errors in Scoring -- Method of Scale Development -- Constructing Scales -- Naming of Scales -- Validity Assessment -- The Concept of Validity in Self-Report Assessment -- Collaborative and Therapeutic Assessment -- Item Omissions -- Implementation of Flowchart in Figure 5.1 -- Consistency of Item Endorsement -- Accuracy of Item Endorsement -- Generalization of Validity Scales Across Inventories -- The Process of Interpretation -- Computer Interpretation Recommended -- Future Directions for Assessment with Self-Report Inventories -- Summary -- References.

Chapter 6: Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 -- History -- MMPI (Original Version) -- MMPI-2 (Restandardized Version) -- Administration -- Scoring -- Validity -- Item Omissions -- Consistency of Item Endorsement -- Accuracy of Item Endorsement -- Interpretation -- Codetypes -- Commonly Occurring MMPI-2 Codetypes -- Individual Scales -- Applications -- Psychometric Foundations -- Demographic Variables -- Reliability -- Codetype Stability -- Concluding Comments -- References -- Chapter 7: Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-Adolescent -- History -- Administration -- Scoring -- Validity -- Item Omissions -- Consistency of Item Endorsement -- Accuracy of Item Endorsement -- Interpretation -- Codetypes -- Individual Scales -- MMPI-A Structural Summary -- Critical Items -- Applications -- Psychometric Foundations -- Demographic Variables -- Reliability -- Codetype Stability -- Concluding Comments -- References -- Chapter 8: Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2-Restructured Form -- History -- Administration -- Scoring -- Validity -- Omissions -- Consistency of Item Endorsement -- Accuracy of Item Endorsement -- Interpretation -- Higher-Order Scales -- Restructured Clinical Scales -- Specifi c Problem (SP) Scales -- Personality Psychopathology Five-Revised (PSY-5-RF) Scales -- Critical Responses -- Applications -- Psychometric Foundations -- Age -- Education -- Gender -- Reliability -- MMPI-Adolescent-Restructured Form (MMPI-A-RF) -- Concluding Comments -- References -- Chapter 9: Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory-IV -- History -- MCMI (First Edition) -- MCMI-II (Second Edition) -- MCMI-III (Third Edition) -- MCMI-IV (Fourth Edition) -- Administration -- Scoring -- Validity -- Item Omissions -- Consistency of Item Endorsement -- Accuracy of Item Endorsement -- Interpretation -- Commonly Occurring MCMI-III Configurations.

Individual Scales -- Facet Scales -- Critical Items (Noteworthy Responses) -- Applications -- Psychometric Foundations -- Demographic Variables -- Reliability -- Concluding Comments -- References -- Chapter 10: Personality Assessment Inventory -- History -- Short Form of the PAI -- Administration -- Scoring -- Validity -- Item Omissions -- Consistency of Item Endorsement -- Accuracy of Item Endorsement -- Interpretation -- Two-Point Codetypes1 -- Individual Scales -- Supplemental Indices -- Overview of Research on Individual Scales and Supplemental Indices -- Applications -- Psychometric Foundations -- Demographic Variables -- Reliability -- Codetype Stability -- Adolescent Version of the PAI -- Concluding Comments -- References -- Chapter 11: NEO Personality Inventory-3 -- History -- NEO-PI (First Edition) -- NEO-PI-R (Revised Edition) -- NEO-PI-3 (Third Edition) -- Administration -- Scoring -- Validity -- Item Omissions -- Consistency of Item Endorsement -- Accuracy of Item Endorsement -- Interpretation -- Applications -- Psychometric Foundations -- Demographic Variables -- Reliability -- Stability -- Concluding Comments -- References -- Part 3: Performance-Based Measures -- Chapter 12: Rorschach Comprehensive System -- Nature of the Rorschach Comprehensive System -- History -- Administration -- Coding and Scoring -- Basic Codes: Location, Determinants, and Contents -- Supplementary Codes -- Code Elaborations -- Structural Summary -- Interpretation: Structural Variables -- Attending to and Perceiving Surroundings -- Forming Concepts and Ideas -- Experiencing and Expressing Feelings -- Managing Stress -- Maintaining Consistency and Flexibility (EB Style) -- Viewing Oneself -- Relating to Others -- Additional Global Indices -- Interpretation: Thematic Variables -- Identifying Responses Rich in Thematic Imagery.

Generating Associations and Formulating Interpretive Hypotheses -- Determining the Plausibility of Thematic Interpretations -- Interpretation: Behavioral Variables -- Card Turning -- Comments and Personals -- Expressive Style -- Interpretation: Card Pull -- Card I -- Card II -- Card III -- Card IV -- Card V -- Card VI -- Card VII -- Card VIII -- Card IX -- Card X -- Applications -- Clinical Practice -- Forensic Practice -- Organizational Practice -- Psychometric Foundations -- Intercoder Agreement -- Reliability -- Validity -- Normative Reference Data -- References -- Chapter 13: Rorschach Performance Assessment System -- Nature of the Rorschach Performance Assessment System -- History -- Administration -- Preparation Phase -- Response Phase -- Clarification Phase -- Coding and Scoring -- Location and Space Codes -- Content Codes -- Object Qualities -- Form Quality -- Popular Responses -- Determinants -- Cognitive Codes -- Thematic Codes -- Counts and Calculations -- Interpretation -- Applications -- Psychometric Foundations -- Reliability -- Validity -- Normative Reference Data -- References -- Chapter 14: Thematic Apperception Test -- Nature of the Thematic Apperception Test -- Structural Data -- Thematic Data -- Behavioral Data -- History -- Administration -- Coding -- Social Cognition and Object Relations Scale (SCORS) -- Defense Mechanism Manual (DMM) -- Need for Achievement (n-Ach) -- Interpretation: Card Pull -- Card 1 -- Card 2 -- Card 3BM -- Card 3GF -- Card 4 -- Card 5 -- Card 6BM -- Card 6GF -- Card 7BM -- Card 7GF -- Card 8BM -- Card 8GF -- Card 9BM -- Card 9GF -- Card 10 -- Card 11 -- Card 12M -- Card 12F -- Card 12BG -- Card 13MF -- Card 13B -- Card 13G -- Card 14 -- Card 15 -- Card 16 -- Card 17BM -- Card 17GF -- Card 18BM -- Card 18GF -- Card 19 -- Card 20 -- Interpretation: Story Meaning -- Attitudes, Intentions, and Expectations.

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