| Description |
1 online resource (771 pages) |
| Contents |
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 |
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Preparing for Personality AssessmentsClarifying 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 |
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Concluding CommentsReferences; 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Test Data (9.04); Interpreting Assessment Results (9.06); Assessment by Unqualified Persons (9.07); Obsolete Tests and Outdated Test Results (9.08); Test Scoring and Interpretation Services (9.09); Explaining Assessment Results (9.10); Maintaining Test Security (9.11); Training Students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 |
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Religion and SpiritualitySexual 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 |
| Bibliography |
ReferencesChapter 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 |
| Notes |
Errors in Scoring |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Personality assessment -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
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Personality assessment
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| Genre/Form |
Handbooks and manuals
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Greene, Roger L
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| ISBN |
9781119258896 |
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1119258898 |
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