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Handbook of psychological assessment

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Welcome to the fourth edition of Handbook of Psychological Assessment. I hope you
find this edition to be a clear, useful, and readable guide to conducting psychological
assessment. It is readers such as you who have enabled the previous editions to be successful
and, because of your interest and feedback, have enabled each edition to be an
improvement on the previous ones.

As with the previous editions, I have tried to integrate the best of science with the
best of practice. Necessarily, psychological assessment involves technical knowledge.
But in presenting this technical knowledge, I have tried to isolate, extract, and summarize
in as clear a manner as possible the core information that is required for practitioners
to function competently. At the same time, assessment is also about the very human
side of understanding, helping, and making decisions about people. I hope I have been
able to comfortably blend this technical (science) side with the human. An assessment
that does not have at least some heart to it is cold and lacking. To keep in touch with the
practitioner/human side of assessment, I have continually maintained an active practice
in which I have tried to stay close to and interact with the ongoing personal and professional
challenges of practitioners. I hope that within and between the sentences in the
book, my active involvement with the world of practice is apparent.

A number of changes in the field of assessment (and psychology in general) are consistent
with bringing assessment closer to the person. One is the impact of freedom of
information legislation, which means that a report written about a client is more likely
to be read by the client; therefore, we as practitioners need to write the report with this
in mind. In particular, we must word information about clients in everyday language
and in a way that is likely to facilitate personal growth. This is quite consistent with
writings by a number of authors who have conceptualized and provided strategies on
how to combine assessment with the therapeutic process (therapeutic assessment).

This involves not only the use of everyday language, but also a more empathic understanding
of the client. It also involves balancing descriptions of clients’ weaknesses
with their strengths. This is quite consistent with the positive psychology movement
that has emerged within mainstream psychology. One of the issues this movement
questions is the deeply embedded (medical) model that requires us to identify what is
wrong with a person and then go about trying to fix it. Why is this a more effective avenue
of change than identifying a client’s strengths and then working with the person
to enlarge these strengths both as a means in and of itself as well as to overcome any
weaknesses? In addition, a client who reads a report describing an endless set of weaknesses
will no doubt find it demoralizing (untherapeutic). Unfortunately, clinical assessment
has still not yet devised a commonly used multiphasic instrument of client
strengths. At the same time, I realize that there are certainly a number of referral situations
in which capturing this human-centered approach are difficult, such as in forensic
contexts when the referral questions may relate to client placement by health
professionals or decisions regarding competency.

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Penerbit

New Jersey : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2003

Deskripsi Fisik

BF176 .G76; 150′.28′7—dc21 2002032383

Bahasa

English

ISBN/ISSN

0-471-41979-6

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Edisi

4th ed.

Subjek

PSIKOLOGI

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