Kellerman / Burry Handbook of Psychodiagnostic Testing

Analysis of Personality in the Psychological Report
Fourth Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-0-387-71370-0
Verlag: Springer
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 202 Seiten

The Handbook of Psychodiagnostic Testing is an invaluable aid to students and professionals performing psychological assessments. It takes the reader from client referral to finished report, demonstrating how to synthesize details of personality and pathology into a document that is focused, coherent, and clinically meaningful. This new edition covers emerging areas in borderline and narcissistic pathologies, psychological testing of preschool children, and bilingual populations. It also discusses the most current clinical issues and evaluating populations on which standard psychological tests have not been standardized.

Henry Kellerman, Ph.D, Diplomate in clinical Psychology of the American Board of Professional Psychology, is training alalyst and senior supervisor at the Postgraduate Center for Mental Health in New York City. He is the author and editor of many books and numerous scientific papers and was the editor of the Columbia University Press book series Personality, Psychopathology, and Psychotherapy: Theoretical and Clinical Perspectives. A former National Institute of Mental Health Fellow, Dr. Kellerman is also a Fellow of th American Psychological Association and the American Group Psychotherapy Association. He has held faculty and staff positions at several hospitals and universities and maintains a private psychoanalytic practice in New York City. Anthony Burry, Ph.D., clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst and Diplomate, American Board of Assessment Psychology, was formerly the Director of Psychology Internship Training, supervisor, and faculty memeber at the Postgraduate Center of Mental Health in New York City. Dr. Burry was also the Director of Psychological Evaluation at Comprehensive Psychological Services, and a Senior Supervisor of school mental health programs at the Brooklyn Center for Psychotherapy. He was Director of Psychology at Community Services for Human Development in New York City and was also a consultant in psychological assessment for seminary education for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn. Dr. Burry has also held clinical positions involving psychotherapy and psychodiagnostic testing at St.Vincent's Guidance Institute in New York City and at the University of Kentucky Medical Center and the Veterans Administration Hospital in Lexington, Kentucky.  Dr. Burry maintains a private practice in psychotherapy and Psychodiagnostic testing in New York City.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kellerman, Henry

Burry, Anthony

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Preface;6
2;Acknowledgments;11
3;Contents;12
4;The Referral;15
4.1;What is a Psychological Test Report?;15
4.2;Clarity of the Report;16
4.3;Meaningfulness of the Report;16
4.4;Synthesis of the Final Report;17
4.5;Why a Psychological Report May be Requested;17
4.6;Context of the Referral;17
4.7;Focusing the Report;18
4.8;Summary;19
5;Sections of the Psychodiagnostic Report;20
5.1;Suggested Outline of Sections The Clinical Interview;21
5.2;Cognitive Organization and Reality Testing;22
5.3;Intellectual Functioning;22
5.4;The Nature of Anxiety;23
5.5;Impulse versus Control;24
5.6;Defensive Structure;25
5.7;Identity and Interpersonal Behavior;26
5.8;Diagnosis and Prognosis;28
5.9;Summary;29
6;The Clinical Interview;30
6.1;Meeting the Patient;30
6.2;Samples of Behavior;31
6.3;Samples versus Evidence;32
6.4;The Referral and the Clinical Interview;32
6.5;Diagnostic Formulations Based on the Clinical Interview;33
6.6;Autism;35
6.7;Affect;36
6.8;Ambivalence;39
6.9;Association;40
6.10;Orientation to Time, Place, and Person;41
6.11;Summary;43
7;Reality Testing and Cognitive Functioning;45
7.1;Assessing Reality Testing;45
7.2;Primary Autonomous Ego Function;46
7.3;Secondary Autonomous Ego Function;48
7.4;Summary;54
8;Reality Testing and Cognitive Functioning;55
8.1;Integrative Function of the Ego;55
8.2;Communicating Findings;56
8.3;The Regulatory Aspect in Relation to Underachievement;57
8.4;Synthetic Function of the Ego;59
8.5;Diagnostic Implications;59
8.6;Communicating Findings;61
8.7;Adaptive Function of the Ego;61
8.8;Summary;63
9;Intellectual Functioning;65
9.1;DSM-IV-TR and Traditional I.Q. Range;66
9.2;Intelligence Test Scales;67
9.3;Verbal and Performance I.Q.;69
9.4;Verbal Equals Performance;69
9.5;Verbal Greater than Performance;70
9.6;Performance Greater than Verbal;71
9.7;Implications of Verbal-Performance Discrepancy;73
9.8;Subdividing Groups of Verbal and Performance Subtests;73
9.9;Use and Implications of ÏAÓ and ÏBÓ Groupings;75
9.10;Summary;76
10;Intellectual Functioning;77
10.1;Estimating Potential Levels of Intellectual Functioning;77
10.2;Intrasubtest Scatter;78
10.3;Quality of Responses;79
10.4;Pro-Rated I.Q.;79
10.5;Analysis of Subtest Scatter;80
10.6;Verbal Subtests (Wechsler Scales);81
10.7;Performance Subtests (Wechsler Scales);83
10.8;Conclusion;85
10.9;Summary;87
11;The Nature of Anxiety;88
11.1;Anxiety as a Central Focus in the Report;88
11.2;What does the Term Anxiety Mean?;89
11.3;The PatientÌs Experience of Anxiety;89
11.4;The Central Role of Anxiety in the Psychodiagnostic Evaluation;90
11.5;Is the Anxiety Consciously Experienced?;91
11.6;Is the Anxiety Acted-Out?;92
11.7;Is the Anxiety Somatized?;95
11.8;Is the Anxiety Understood by the Patient?;97
11.9;Sources of Anxiety in the Personality;97
11.10;Summary;99
12;Impulse Versus Control;100
12.1;The Interplay Between Impulses and Controls;100
12.2;Dimensions in the Analysis of Impulses and Controls;101
12.3;The Nature of Impulses;102
12.4;Impulse and Action Orientation;102
12.5;Impulse and Cognition;103
12.6;Types of Impulses Anger;104
12.7;Sexuality;106
12.8;Summary;108
13;Impulse Versus Control;109
13.1;Control Mechanisms Cognitive Controls;110
13.2;Ego Controls;110
13.3;Defense Mechanisms as Controls;111
13.4;Character Traits as Controls;112
13.5;Fantasy as Control;113
13.6;Fear as Control;114
13.7;Maturation: An Index of Impulse Versus Control;115
13.8;Immature: Impulse Dominated;115
13.9;Immature: Control Dominated;116
13.10;Mature Balance of Impulse and Controls;117
13.11;Summary;119
14;Defensive Structure;120
14.1;Individual Defense Mechanisms;121
14.2;Defenses Used to Manage Individual Emotions;123
14.3;Defenses and Character- or Personality-Trait Formation;125
14.4;Defenses Forming Character Trait Patterns;126
14.5;Defenses and the Report;127
14.6;Summary;131
15;Interpersonal Behavior;132
15.1;The Bridge Between Intrapersonal and Interpersonal Functioning;132
15.2;Conflict Stages and Derivative Behaviors;133
15.3;Oral-Dependent Conflict;133
15.4;Anal-Control Conflict;134
15.5;Phallic-Assertion Conflict;136
15.6;Oedipal-Competitive Conflict;137
15.7;Summary;140
16;Interpersonal Behavior;141
16.1;Emotion-Controlled Types Obsessive- Compulsive Personality;143
16.2;Paranoid Personality;144
16.3;Schizoid Personality;145
16.4;Emotion-Dyscontrolled Types Histrionic Personality;145
16.5;Narcissistic Personality;146
16.6;Antisocial or Psychopathic Personality;147
16.7;Emotion-Attached (Dependent) Types Dependent Personality;147
16.8;Passive-Aggressive Personality;148
16.9;Inadequate Personality;149
16.10;Emotion-Detached (Avoidant) Types Borderline Personality;149
16.11;Schizotypal Personality;150
16.12;Avoidant Personality;151
16.13;Summary;153
17;Diagnosis and Prognosis;154
17.1;Elements of Diagnosis;154
17.2;Diagnosis as a Shifting Phenomenon;155
17.3;Connections Between Diagnosis and the Presenting Problem;155
17.4;Acute Versus Chronic Pathology;156
17.5;Levels of Diagnosis;157
17.6;Integrating Diagnostic Levels;158
17.7;The Pathological Context and Diagnosis;159
17.8;Summary;161
18;Diagnosis and Prognosis;162
18.1;DSM-IV and DSM- IV-TR: The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual;162
18.2;Diagnostic Axes in DSM-IV and DSM-IV-TR;163
18.3;Definitions of Generally Used Diagnostic Terms Neurotic Disorders;165
18.4;Organic Impairment Disorders;172
18.5;The Psychoses;173
18.6;Nonpsychotic Mood Disorders;178
18.7;Prognosis;179
18.8;Summary;180
19;Intelligence Test Reports for Counselors, Teachers, and Parents, and Testing of Preschoolers;181
19.1;The Intelligence Test Referral;182
19.2;Identifying Data;183
19.3;Behavioral Observations;183
19.4;Test Results;184
19.5;Summary and Conclusions Section;187
19.6;Language in the Intelligence Test Report;188
19.7;Testing of Preschool Children;189
19.8;Summary;191
20;CODA;192
20.1;Resolving the Role-Anxiety Dilemma;193
20.2;The SupervisorÌs Role;193
20.3;The Active-Passive Dilemma;195
20.4;Appreciating Limits;196
21;Recommended Readings;198
21.1;Clinical Applications of Psychological Tests;198
21.2;The Clinical Interview;199
21.3;Reality Testing and Cognitive Functioning;199
21.4;Intellectual Functioning;199
21.5;Anxiety, Impluse, and Defensive Structure;200
21.6;Interpersonal Behavior and Character Structure;200
21.7;Diagnosis;200
21.8;Report Construction;201
22;Index;202