Conducting Psychological Assessment

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 viiAcknowledgments ixPart I Conducting Psychological Assessment 1Introduction The Hypothesis Testing ModelChapter 1 The Initial Clinical Assessment: Clinical Interviewing and Hypothesis Building 11Chapter 2 Selecting Tests 39Chapter 3 Testing 57Chapter 4 Integrating Data 65Chapter 5 Writing Reports 99Chapter 6 Providing Feedback 133Part II Case Studies in Psychological Assessment 147Introduction Case Studies in Psychological AssessmentChapter 7 A Woman With Poor Attention 151Chapter 8 A Woman With Interpersonal Problems 187Chapter 9 A Young Man Who Steals 229Chapter 10 An Adolescent Girl With Test Anxiety 265Chapter 11 An Aggressive Boy 301Chapter 12 An Adolescent Girl With School Problems 333References 381Index 387