Collaborative / Therapeutic Assessment

Stephen E. Finn, PhD, is the founder of the Center for Therapeutic Assessment and an Adjunct Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of Manual for Using the MMPI-2 as a Therapeutic Intervention and In Our Clients’ Shoes: Theory and Techniques of Therapeutic Assessment. Constance T. Fischer, PhD, ABPP, is the Duquesne University N.J. Dick Endowed Chair of Commonly Outreach. She is best known for Pioneering and individualized/collaborative/therapeutic approach to psychological assessment, for which she received several awards. She edited Qualitative Research Methods for Psychologists: Introduction through Empirical Studies and received the Carl Rogers Award from the APA division of Humanistic Psychology and Dusquense University’s Presidential Award for Scholarship.Leonard Handler, PhD, ABAP, is Professor and Associate Director of the Clinical Training Program at the University of Tennessee, Dr. Handler is coeditor of the Journal of Personality Assessment and serves on its editorial board. He has received numerous research awards and has also served as Director of the University of Tennessee Psychological Clinic.

• Preface viiAbout the Contributors xix1 Collaborative/Therapeutic Assessment: Basic Concepts, History, and Research 1Stephen E. Finn, Constance T. Fischer, and Leonard HandlerPart I: Assessments of Individual Adults2 Therapeutic Assessment of a Dissociating Client: Learning Internal Navigation 27Judith Armstrong3 Therapeutic Assessment of Depression: Love’s Labors Lost? 47Marc J. Diener, Mark J. Hilsenroth, Thomas D. Cromer, Frank P. Pesale, and Jenelle Slavin-Mulford4 Collaboration in Neuropsychological Assessment: Metaphor as Intervention With a Suicidal Adult 69Diane H. Engelman and J. B. Allyn5 Collaboration Throughout the Assessment: A Young Man in Transition 93Constance T. Fischer6 Therapeutic Assessment for a Treatment in Crisis Following Multiple Suicide Attempts 113J. Christopher Fowler7 Using Therapeutic Assessment to Explore Emotional Constriction: A Creative Professional in Crisis 133Jan H. Kamphuis and Hilde de Saeger8 Therapeutic Assessment Involving Multiple Life Issues: Coming to Terms With Problems of Health, Culture, and Learning 157Hale Martin and Erin Jacklin9 Collaborative Assessment for Psychotherapy: Witnessing A Woman’s Reawakening 179Patrick J. McElfresh10 Therapeutic Assessment of Severe Abuse: A Woman Living With Her Past 199Carol Groves OvertonPart II: Assessments of Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults11 Therapeutic Assessment of an Adolescent: An Adopted Teenager Comes to Feel Understood 225Marita Frackowiak12 Collaborative Storytelling With Children: An Unruly Six- Year- Old Boy 243Leonard Handler13 Rorschach- Based Psychotherapy: Collaboration With a Suicidal Young Woman 269Noriko Nakamura14 Collaborative Assessment of a Child in Foster Care: New Understanding of Bad Behavior 291Caroline Purves15 Therapeutic Assessment With a 10- Year- Old Boy and His Parents: The Pain Under the Disrespect 311Deborah J. Tharinger, Melissa E. Fisher, and Bradley Gerber16 Collaborative Assessment on an Adolescent Psychiatric Ward: A Psychotic Teenage Girl 335Heikki ToivakkaPart III: Special Applications17 Therapeutic Assessment Alternative to Custody Evaluation: An Adolescent Whose Parents Could Not Stop Fighting 357F. Barton Evans18 Therapeutic Assessment With a Couple in Crisis: Undoing Problematic Projective Identification via the Consensus Rorschach 379Stephen E. Finn19 Case Studies in Collaborative Neuropsychology: A Man With Brain Injury and a Child With Learning Problems 401Tad T. Gorske and Steven R. SmithAfterword: Forward! 421Constance T. Fischer, Leonard Handler, and Stephen E. FinnAuthor Index 427Subject Index 430

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