Finn / Fischer / Handler Collaborative / Therapeutic Assessment

A Casebook and Guide
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-118-16864-6
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 464 Seiten, E-Book

A guide to conducting Collaborative/Therapeutic Assessment topromote client growth

Mental health professionals are increasingly enthusiastic aboutand ready to use psychological test data, research, and theory inlife-relevant ways to improve diagnosis, client care, and treatmentoutcomes. With Collaborative/Therapeutic Assessment (C/TA), clientsparticipate actively with the assessor in exploring how their testscores and patterns reflect who they are in their daily lives andhow they can learn to help themselves cope with life'schallenges.

Using a case study approach to demonstrate how to apply C/TA inpractice, Collaborative/Therapeutic Assessment providespractitioners with a variety of flexible and adaptable caseexamples featuring adults, children, adolescents, couples, andfamilies from different backgrounds in need of treatment forassorted concerns.

Designed for both experienced and novice clinicians, the bookbegins with a brief history of C/TA, and provides clear definitionsof the distinctions among many common approaches. It uniquelypresents:

* Eighteen diverse C/TA assessments covering: depression, multiplesuicide attempts, severe abuse, dissociation, an adolescentpsychiatric ward, custody evaluation, a couple in crisis, andcollaborative neuropsychology

* Guidance on how both client and clinician can agree on the bestcourse of action through joint exploration of assessmentprocedures, results, and implications

* Closely related approaches to psychological testing, includingIndividualized Assessment, Collaborative Assessment, TherapeuticModel of Assessment, Collaborative/Therapeutic NeuropsychologicalAssessment, and Rorschach-based psychotherapy

* Clearly labeled Teaching Points in each chapter

Collaborative/Therapeutic Assessment providespsychologists in all areas of assessment, and at all levels ofexperience, with powerful C/TA examples that can dramaticallyilluminate and improve clients' lives.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Finn, Stephen E.

Fischer, Constance T.

Handler, Leonard

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface vii
About the Contributors xix
1 Collaborative/Therapeutic Assessment: Basic Concepts,History, and Research 1
Stephen E. Finn, Constance T. Fischer, and LeonardHandler
PART I: Assessments of Individual Adults
2 Therapeutic Assessment of a Dissociating Client: LearningInternal Navigation 27
Judith Armstrong
3 Therapeutic Assessment of Depression: Love's LaborsLost? 47
Marc J. Diener, Mark J. Hilsenroth, Thomas D. Cromer, FrankP. Pesale, and Jenelle Slavin-Mulford
4 Collaboration in Neuropsychological Assessment: Metaphor asIntervention With a Suicidal Adult 69
Diane H. Engelman and J. B. Allyn
5 Collaboration Throughout the Assessment: A Young Man inTransition 93
Constance T. Fischer
6 Therapeutic Assessment for a Treatment in Crisis FollowingMultiple Suicide Attempts 113
J. Christopher Fowler
7 Using Therapeutic Assessment to Explore EmotionalConstriction: A Creative Professional in Crisis 133
Jan H. Kamphuis and Hilde de Saeger
8 Therapeutic Assessment Involving Multiple Life Issues:Coming to Terms With Problems of Health, Culture, and Learning157
Hale Martin and Erin Jacklin
9 Collaborative Assessment for Psychotherapy: Witnessing AWoman's Reawakening 179
Patrick J. McElfresh
10 Therapeutic Assessment of Severe Abuse: A Woman LivingWith Her Past 199
Carol Groves Overton
PART II: Assessments of Children, Adolescents, and YoungAdults
11 Therapeutic Assessment of an Adolescent: An AdoptedTeenager Comes to Feel Understood 225
Marita Frackowiak
12 Collaborative Storytelling With Children: An Unruly Six-Year- Old Boy 243
Leonard Handler
13 Rorschach- Based Psychotherapy: Collaboration With aSuicidal Young Woman 269
Noriko Nakamura
14 Collaborative Assessment of a Child in Foster Care: NewUnderstanding of Bad Behavior 291
Caroline Purves
15 Therapeutic Assessment With a 10- Year- Old Boy and HisParents: The Pain Under the Disrespect 311
Deborah J. Tharinger, Melissa E. Fisher, and BradleyGerber
16 Collaborative Assessment on an Adolescent PsychiatricWard: A Psychotic Teenage Girl 335
Heikki Toivakka
PART III: Special Applications
17 Therapeutic Assessment Alternative to Custody Evaluation:An Adolescent Whose Parents Could Not Stop Fighting 357
F. Barton Evans
18 Therapeutic Assessment With a Couple in Crisis: UndoingProblematic Projective Identification via the Consensus Rorschach379
Stephen E. Finn
19 Case Studies in Collaborative Neuropsychology: A Man WithBrain Injury and a Child With Learning Problems 401
Tad T. Gorske and Steven R. Smith
Afterword: Forward! 421
Constance T. Fischer, Leonard Handler, and Stephen E.Finn
Author Index 427
Subject Index 430

Über Autor(innen)

Stephen E. Finn, PhD, is the founder of the Center forTherapeutic Assessment and an Adjunct Clinical Assistant Professorof Psychology at the University of Texas at Austin. He is theauthor of Manual for Using the MMPI-2 as a TherapeuticIntervention and In Our Clients' Shoes: Theory andTechniques of Therapeutic Assessment.
Constance T. Fischer, PhD, ABPP, is the DuquesneUniversity N.J. Dick Endowed Chair of Commonly Outreach. She isbest known for Pioneering andindividualized/collaborative/therapeutic approach to psychologicalassessment, for which she received several awards. She editedQualitative Research Methods for Psychologists: Introductionthrough Empirical Studies and received the Carl Rogers Awardfrom the APA division of Humanistic Psychology and DusquenseUniversity's Presidential Award for Scholarship.
Leonard Handler, PhD, ABAP, is Professor and AssociateDirector of the Clinical Training Program at the University ofTennessee, Dr. Handler is coeditor of the Journal of PersonalityAssessment and serves on its editorial board. He has receivednumerous research awards and has also served as Director of theUniversity of Tennessee Psychological Clinic.