Main description:

This book illustrates, through a range of case examples, the growing professional practice of collaborative and therapeutic psychological assessment (CTA). It uniquely provides clinicians an introduction to and explanation of twenty examples of CTA with a variety of populations addressing an array of common clinically presenting problems. Each case study includes a discussion of the assessment instrument used in addition to key transcript passages. Clinicians will benefit from this essential information on using psychological assessment to promote client growth.

Contents:

Preface vii About the Contributors xix 1 Collaborative/Therapeutic Assessment: Basic Concepts, History, and Research 1 Stephen E. Finn, Constance T. Fischer, and Leonard Handler PART I: Assessments of Individual Adults 2 Therapeutic Assessment of a Dissociating Client: Learning Internal Navigation 27 Judith Armstrong 3 Therapeutic Assessment of Depression: Love s Labors Lost? 47 Marc J. Diener, Mark J. Hilsenroth, Thomas D. Cromer, Frank P. Pesale, and Jenelle Slavin-Mulford 4 Collaboration in Neuropsychological Assessment: Metaphor as Intervention With a Suicidal Adult 69 Diane H. Engelman and J. B. Allyn 5 Collaboration Throughout the Assessment: A Young Man in Transition 93 Constance T. Fischer 6 Therapeutic Assessment for a Treatment in Crisis Following Multiple Suicide Attempts 113 J. Christopher Fowler 7 Using Therapeutic Assessment to Explore Emotional Constriction: A Creative Professional in Crisis 133 Jan H. Kamphuis and Hilde de Saeger 8 Therapeutic Assessment Involving Multiple Life Issues: Coming to Terms With Problems of Health, Culture, and Learning 157 Hale Martin and Erin Jacklin 9 Collaborative Assessment for Psychotherapy: Witnessing A Woman s Reawakening 179 Patrick J. McElfresh 10 Therapeutic Assessment of Severe Abuse: A Woman Living With Her Past 199 Carol Groves Overton PART II: Assessments of Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults 11 Therapeutic Assessment of an Adolescent: An Adopted Teenager Comes to Feel Understood 225 Marita Frackowiak 12 Collaborative Storytelling With Children: An Unruly Six- Year- Old Boy 243 Leonard Handler 13 Rorschach- Based Psychotherapy: Collaboration With a Suicidal Young Woman 269 Noriko Nakamura 14 Collaborative Assessment of a Child in Foster Care: New Understanding of Bad Behavior 291 Caroline Purves 15 Therapeutic Assessment With a 10- Year- Old Boy and His Parents: The Pain Under the Disrespect 311 Deborah J. Tharinger, Melissa E. Fisher, and Bradley Gerber 16 Collaborative Assessment on an Adolescent Psychiatric Ward: A Psychotic Teenage Girl 335 Heikki Toivakka PART III: Special Applications 17 Therapeutic Assessment Alternative to Custody Evaluation: An Adolescent Whose Parents Could Not Stop Fighting 357 F. Barton Evans 18 Therapeutic Assessment With a Couple in Crisis: Undoing Problematic Projective Identification via the Consensus Rorschach 379 Stephen E. Finn 19 Case Studies in Collaborative Neuropsychology: A Man With Brain Injury and a Child With Learning Problems 401 Tad T. Gorske and Steven R. Smith Afterword: Forward! 421 Constance T. Fischer, Leonard Handler, and Stephen E. Finn Author Index 427 Subject Index 430