| Description |
xvii, 201 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
1. The Referral -- 2. Sections of the Psychodiagnostic Report -- 3. The Clinical Interview -- 4. Reality Testing and Cognitive Functioning: Psychosis -- 5. Reality Testing and Cognitive Functioning: Personality Disorders and Neuroses -- 6. Intellectual Functioning: The I.Q. Analysis -- 7. Intellectual Functioning: Subtest and Scatter Analysis -- 8. The Nature of Anxiety -- 9. Impulse Versus Control: The Vicissitudes of Impulse -- 10. Impulse Versus Control: The Nature of Control Mechanisms -- 11. Defensive Structure -- 12. Interpersonal Behavior: Identity -- 13. Interpersonal Behavior: Character Diagnosis -- 14. Diagnosis and Prognosis: Diagnostic Principles -- 15. Diagnosis and Prognosis: Diagnostic Nosology -- 16. Intelligence Test Reports for Counselors, Teachers, and Parents and Testing of Preschoolers -- CODA: Overcoming Impasses in Report Writing |
| Summary |
"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."--BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
2nd ed. title: Handbook of psychodiagnostic testing : an analysis of personality in the psychological report |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 194-196) and index |
| Subject |
Psychodiagnostics.
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Personality assessment.
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Report writing.
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| Author |
Burry, Anthony.
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| LC no. |
2007927171 |
| ISBN |
9780387713694 hardcover alkaline paper |
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