Social Cognition and Object Relations Scale-Global Rating Method (SCORS-G)

Michelle B Stein, PhD, is a psychologist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Assistant Professor through Harvard Medical School. She serves inpatient and outpatient populations conducting individual and group psychotherapy as well as outpatient psychological assessments. She co-developed the SCORS-G manual.Jenelle Slavin-Mulford, PhD, is Assistant Professor of Psychology at Augusta University where she teaches personality assessment, psychopathology, and psychotherapy to graduate students. Personality assessment is a main focus of her research and she is a co-author of the most recent version of the SCORS-G manual.

• I History and Empirical Research 1: Introduction 2: Empirical Research on the SCORS-G: A review. II Scoring 3: Complexity of Representations of People 4: Affective Quality of Representations (AFF) 5: Emotional Investment in Relationships (EIR) 6: Emotional Investment in Values and Moral Standards (EIM) 7: Understanding of Social Causality (SC) 8: Experience and Management of Aggressive Impulses (AGG) 9: Self-Esteem (SE) 10: Identity and Coherence of Self (ICS) 11: Tying it all together: Effective strategies for scoring 12: Practice narratives III Clinical Applications 13: Identifying SCORS-G variables in your clinical work and associated interventions 14: Using SCORS-G anchor points in the therapy and supervisory process 15: Using the SCORS-G in the intake and psychological assessment process: Qualitative and Quantitative approaches Appendix A: Table of Empirical Research

"This volume is truly a comprehensive guide to the SCORS-G rating method that includes a complete review of the research to date, extremely clear discussion of scoring guidelines, extensive practice examples that are incredibly useful in training clinicians at all levels of experience and a direct link with clinical applications. Stein and Slavin-Mulford provide several impressive chapters on how to use the information from this measure in an integrative manner during the intake and psychological assessment process, as well as how to inform the patient-therapist interaction, clinical interventions and supervisory process. If you are interested in evaluating the complexity and depth offered by narrative material in relation to applied clinical issues with an evidenced-based assessment tool this book is a must!"– Mark J. Hilsenroth, PhD, editor of the journal Psychotherapy and professor at the Derner School of Psychology, Adelphi University, USA"In an era when self-report measures dominate psychology, Stein and Slavin-Mulford’s compelling review of the narrative-based SCORS-G is a breath of fresh air. Blending empirical evidence with clinical wisdom, the authors provide a step-by-step guide to this important assessment tool that will be useful to graduate students and early career psychologists as well as experienced clinicians and clinical researchers."– Robert F. Bornstein, PhD, past president of the Society for Personality Assessment and professor at the Derner School of Psychology, Adelphi University, USA