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| Preface | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Organization of the Handbook | |
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| Role of the Clinician | |
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| Patterns of Test Usage in Clinical Assessment | |
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| Evaluating Psychological Tests | |
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| Validity in Clinical Practice | |
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| Clinical Judgment | |
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| Phases in Clinical Assessment | |
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| Recommended Reading | |
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| Context of Clinical Assessment | |
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| Types of Referral Settings | |
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| Ethical Practice of Assessment | |
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| Assessing Diverse Groups | |
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| Selecting Psychological Tests | |
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| Computer-Assisted Assessment | |
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| Recommended Reading | |
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| The Assessment Interview | |
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| History and Development | |
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| Issues Related to Reliability and Validity | |
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| Assets and Limitations | |
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| The Assessment Interview and Case History | |
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| Mental Status Examination | |
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| Interpreting Interview Data | |
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| Structured Interviews | |
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| Recommended Reading | |
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| Behavioral Assessment | |
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| History and Development | |
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| Issues Related to Reliability and Validity | |
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| Assets and Limitations | |
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| Strategies of Behavioral Assessment | |
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| Recommended Reading | |
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| Wechsler Intelligence Scales | |
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| Testing of Intelligence: Pro and Con | |
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| History and Development | |
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| Reliability and Validity | |
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| Assets and Limitations | |
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| Use with Diverse Groups | |
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| Meaning of IQ Scores | |
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| Cautions and Guidelines in Administration | |
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| WAIS-IV/WISC-IV Successive-Level Interpretation Procedure | |
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| Wechsler Indexes and Subtests | |
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| Assessing Brain Damage | |
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| Assessing Additional Special Populations | |
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| Short Forms | |
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| Recommended Reading | |
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| Wechsler Memory Scales | |
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| History and Development | |
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| Reliability and Validity | |
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| Assets and Limitations | |
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| Use with Diverse Groups | |
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| Interpretation Procedure | |
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| Interpreting Patterns of Index Scores | |
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| Comparing Scores on the WAIS-IV and the WMS-IV | |
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| Additional Considerations: Malingering and Evaluating Change | |
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| Recommended Reading | |
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| Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory | |
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| History and Development | |
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| Reliability and Validity | |
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| Assets and Limitations | |
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| Use with Diverse Groups | |
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| Administration | |
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| Interpretation Procedure | |
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| Computerized Interpretation | |
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| Validity Scales | |
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| Clinical Scales | |
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| 2-Point Codes | |
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| MMPI-2 Content Scales | |
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| MMPI-A Content Scales | |
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| Harris-Lingoes and Si Subscales | |
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| Critical Items | |
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| MMPI-2 and MMPI-A Supplementary Scales | |
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| Recommended Reading | |
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| Million Clinical Multiaxial Inventory | |
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| History and Development | |
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| Reliability and Validity | |
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| Assets and Limitations | |
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| Use with Diverse Groups | |
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| Interpretation Procedure | |
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| Modifying Indices (Validity Scales) | |
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| Clinical Personality Patterns | |
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| Severe Personality Pathology | |
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| Clinical Syndromes | |
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| Severe Syndromes | |
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| Recommended Reading | |
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| California Psychological Inventory | |
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| History and Development | |
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| Comparison with the MMPI | |
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| Reliability and Validity | |
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| Assets and Limitations | |
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| Use with Diverse Groups | |
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| Interpretation Procedures | |
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| Vector Scale Interpretation | |
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| Individual Scales | |
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| Special Purpose Scales | |
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| Configural Interpretation | |
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| Recommended Reading | |
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| The Rorschach | |
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| History and Development | |
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| Reliability and Validity | |
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| Assets and Limitations | |
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| Use with Diverse Groups | |
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| Future Directions | |
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| Administration | |
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| Scoring | |
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| Structural Summary | |
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| Interpretation | |
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| Recommended Reading | |
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| Thematic Apperception Test | |
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| History and Development | |
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| Theoretical Perspectives | |
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| Reliability and Validity | |
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| Assets and Limitations | |
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| Use with Diverse Groups | |
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| Administration | |
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| Typical Themes Elicited | |
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| Scoring Procedures | |
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| Interpretation | |
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| Recommended Reading | |
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| Screening for Neuropsychological Impairment | |
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| History and Development | |
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| Interviewing for Brain Impairment | |
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| Domains of Neuropsychological Functioning | |
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| Bender Visual Motor Gestalt Test | |
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| Repeatable Battery for the Assessment of Neuropsychological Status | |
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| Recommended Reading | |
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| Brief Instruments for Treatment Planning, Monitoring, and Outcome Assessment | |
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| Selecting Brief Instruments | |
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| Symptom Checklist-90-R (SCL-90-R) and Brief Symptom Inventory (BSI) | |
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| Beck Depression Inventory | |
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| State Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI) | |
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| Recommended Reading | |
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| Psychological Assessment and Treatment Planning | |
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| Development and Approaches to Treatment Planning | |
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| A Systematic Approach to Treatment Selection | |
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| Functional Impairment | |
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| Social Support | |
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| Problem Complexity/Chronicity | |
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| Coping Style | |
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| Resistance | |
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| Subjective Distress | |
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| Problem-Solving Phase | |
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| Recommended Reading | |
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| Psychological Report | |
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| General Guidelines | |
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| Format for a Psychological Report | |
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| Sample Reports | |
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| Recommended Reading | |
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| Test publishers/distributors | |
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| Testing organizations | |
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| WISC-IV Norms Tables for Clinical Clusters | |
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| Directions for Hand Scoring the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI-2) Validity and Clinical Scales | |
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| Rorschach Norms for Scoring Categories | |
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| Rorschach Norms for Ratios, Percentages, and Special Indices | |
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| References | |
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| Author Index | |
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| Subject Index | |