Psychological Assessment of Bipolar Spectrum Disorders

This comprehensive text describes a multimethod approach to assessing psychological and behavioral features of bipolar spectrum disorders alongside important contextual considerations.

It provides mental health professionals with valuable empirical and interpretive support as they answer assessment questions for diagnostic and decision-making purposes. Chapters are written by assessment psychologists who are renowned for their expertise and contributions in developing and researching specific assessment instruments or topics.

Contributors provide key information about widely used interview methods, self-report measures, and performance-based tests, including the MMPI-3, the SPECTRA, the Rorschach test, and cognitive and neuropsychological evaluations. They also review diagnostic criteria from the DSM-5-TR and the ICD-11.

Additional chapters review special considerations for differential diagnosis, including comorbidity with medical conditions, distinguishing bipolar spectrum disorders from other disorders with similar traits, and accounting for multicultural factors. Two in-depth case examples provide comprehensive illustrations of the multimethod evaluation process with an adolescent and an adult.

Contributors

Introduction to Psychological Assessment of Bipolar Spectrum Disorders: Definitions and Concepts
James H. Kleiger and Irving B. Weiner

Part I. A Multimethod Approach to Assessing Bipolar Spectrum Disorders

• Chapter 1. Using the Multimethod Approach in Diagnosing Persons on the Bipolar Spectrum
  Virginia M. Brabender

Part II. Interview and Self-Report Methods

• Chapter 2. Clinical Interview Methods for Assessing Bipolar Spectrum Disorders
  Ali Khadivi
• Chapter 3. Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory–3 (MMPI-3) Assessment of Bipolar Spectrum Disorders
  Martin Sellbom and Megan R. Whitman
• Chapter 4. Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI) Assessment of Bipolar Spectrum Disorders
  Morgan N. McCredie, Christopher J. Hopwood, and Leslie C. Morey
• Chapter 5. Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory–IV (MCMI-IV) Assessment of Bipolar Spectrum Disorders
  James P. Choca
• Chapter 6. SPECTRA Assessment of Bipolar Spectrum Disorders
  Mark A. Blais and Samuel Justin Sinclair
• Chapter 7. Rating Scales and Screening Assessment of Bipolar Spectrum Disorders
  James H. Kleiger

Part III.Performance-Based Methods

• Chapter 8. Rorschach Comprehensive System (RCS) Assessment of Bipolar Spectrum Disorders
  Irving B. Weiner
• Chapter 9. Rorschach Performance Assessment System (R-PAS) Assessment of Bipolar Spectrum Disorders
  Joni L. Mihura and Kim J. Görner
• Chapter 10. Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) and Other Narrative Assessments of Bipolar Spectrum Disorders
  Sharon Rae Jenkins
• Chapter 11. Cognitive and Neuropsychological Assessment of Bipolar Spectrum Disorders
  Jed Yalof

Part IV. Considerations in Differential Diagnosis

• Chapter 12. Assessment of Bipolar Spectrum Disorders, Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder, and ADHD in Children and Adolescents
  Anthony D. Bram and Kate G. Edwards
• Chapter 13. Assessment of Bipolar Spectrum and Medical Conditions
  Khai Tran and Panagiota Korenis
• Chapter 14. Assessment of Bipolar Spectrum and Personality Disorders
  Robert F. Bornstein
• Chapter 15. Assessment of Bipolar and Psychological Trauma Spectrum Disorders
  F. Barton Evans, Bethany L. Brand, and Nancy Kaser-Boyd
• Chapter 16. Assessment of Bipolar Spectrum and Schizophrenia
  James H. Kleiger and Ali Khadivi
• Chapter 17. Assessment of Manic-Depressive Personalities Within the Bipolar Spectrum
  Odile Husain
• Chapter 18. Assessment of Bipolar Spectrum Disorders Within a Multicultural Context
  Linda Fleming McGhee

Part V. Case Illustrations

• Chapter 19. Assessment of Bipolar Spectrum Disorders in an Adolescent: A Multimethod Case Example
  James H. Kleiger
• Chapter 20. Assessment of Bipolar Spectrum Disorders in an Adult: A Multimethod Case Example
  Irving B. Weiner

Index

About the Editors

James H. Kleiger, PsyD, ABPP, ABAP, is a diplomate in clinical and assessment psychology and Fellow in the Society for Personality Assessment. Dr. Kleiger is a practicing psychologist and psychoanalyst in Bethesda, MD. He is past president of the Baltimore Washington Society for Psychoanalysis and previously the director of the Postdoctoral Psychology Training Program at the Menninger Clinic in Topeka, KS.

He is the author of Disordered Thinking and The Rorschach, Assessing Psychosis: A Clinician's Guide, Rorschach Assessment of Psychotic Phenomena, Psychological Assessment of Disordered Thinking and Perception, and the historical fiction The 11th Inkblot.

Irving B. Weiner, PhD, ABBP, is a retired professor of psychiatry and behavioral neurosciences at the University of South Florida and past president of the Clinical Division of APA. He is a fellow of APA and the Association for Psychological Science, a diplomat of the American Board of Professional Psychology in both clinical and forensic psychology, and previously a licensed psychologist in the practice of clinical and forensic psychology.

He is the author of numerous articles and books, including Psychological Assessment of Disordered Thinking and Perception, and is editor-in-chief of the 12-volume Handbook of Psychology.

This book offers an exemplary overview of the options available to help identify bipolar spectrum disorders. Highly recommended. Graduate students, faculty, and professionals.
—CHOICE, American Library Association

Kleiger, Weiner, and the other experts contributing to Psychological Assessment of Bipolar Spectrum Disorders offer a scholarly, contemporary, and highly practical guide to understanding the primary tools for assessing the bipolar spectrum of conditions and for using those tools in an integrated multimethod assessment to facilitate differential diagnosis. The multiple case illustrations help to make this an excellent resource for clinical assessors at all stages of their career.
—Gregory J. Meyer, PhD, professor of psychology, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH, United States

Drs. Kleiger and Weiner have gathered a stellar team of scholars in psychological assessment to share their expert knowledge on the diagnosis of bipolar spectrum disorders. Although bipolar disorders have been studied for more than a century, they are often misdiagnosed, resulting in less-than-optimal treatment outcomes. This book sensitizes students as well as novice and experienced clinicians to the differential diagnosis, comorbidity, and multicultural aspects of bipolar disorders while advocating a multimethod approach to psychological assessment.
—Corine de Ruiter, PhD, professor of forensic psychology, Maastricht University, Maastricht, the Netherlands