Conducting Psychological Assessment (eBook)

A. JORDAN WRIGHT, PHD, ABAP, is an assessment psychologist and faculty in the Counseling Psychology program at New York University, where he runs the Center for Counseling and Community Wellbeing, NYU's training clinic. He has published several books on assessment, including the Handbook of Psychological Assessment (6th edition, Wiley, 2016), Essentials of Psychological Assessment Supervision (Wiley, 2019), and Essentials of Psychological Tele-Assessment (Wiley, 2020). He is on the executive board of the American Board of Assessment Psychology, is a past board member of the Society for Personality Assessment, and is a past president of APA's Section IX (Assessment) of Division 12.

Preface vii

Acknowledgments ix

Part I Conducting Psychological Assessment 1

Introduction The Hypothesis Testing Model

Chapter 1 The Initial Clinical Assessment: Clinical Interviewing and Hypothesis Building 11

Chapter 2 Selecting Tests 39

Chapter 3 Testing 57

Chapter 4 Integrating Data 65

Chapter 5 Writing Reports 99

Chapter 6 Providing Feedback 133

Part II Case Studies in Psychological Assessment 147

Introduction Case Studies in Psychological Assessment

Chapter 7 A Woman With Poor Attention 151

Chapter 8 A Woman With Interpersonal Problems 187

Chapter 9 A Young Man Who Steals 229

Chapter 10 An Adolescent Girl With Test Anxiety 265

Chapter 11 An Aggressive Boy 301

Chapter 12 An Adolescent Girl With School Problems 333

References 381

Index 387

"This new addition of Wright's useful text is a tour de force. No one else writes more clearly, practically, and helpfully than Wright about psychological assessment--especially about the complex process of case conceptualization. This book should be required reading in every graduate course on psychological assessment."



Stephen E. Finn, Ph.D.

Founder, Center for Therapeutic Assessment