Psychological Assessment of Disordered Thinking and Perception

This essential single-source guide to multimethod psychological assessment of disordered thinking and perception offers practical insights for applying key evaluation measures and strategies, along with 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 renowned assessment psychologists recognized for their expertise and contributions in developing and researching specific assessment instruments or topics. They provide up-to-date information about widely used self-report measures and interview techniques, performance-based tests, and cognitive and neuropsychological measures, including their conceptual basis, psychometric properties, empirical support, and key interpretive elements.

Additional chapters review special developmental and cross-cultural considerations, as well as guidelines for forensic assessments.

Two in-depth case examples provide comprehensive illustrations of the multimethod evaluation process with an adolescent and an adult.

Contributors

Introduction to the Psychological Assessment of Disordered Thought and Perception: Definitions and Concepts
Irving B. Weiner and James H. Kleiger

Part I. Understanding Multimethod Psychological Assessment

1. The Importance of Multimethod Psychological Assessment in Assessing Disordered Thought and Perception
   Robert F. Bornstein

Part II. Clinical Interviews and Self-Report Measures

2. Clinical Interview Methods for Assessing Disordered Thought and Perception
   Ali Khadivi
3. Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 (MMPI-2) for Assessing Disordered Thought and Perception
   David S. Nichols
4. Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2-RF (MMPI-2-RF) for Assessing Disordered Thought and Perception
   Anthony M. Tarescavage and Martin Sellbom
5. Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI) for Assessing Disordered Thought and Perception
   Morgan N. McCredie, Christopher J. Hopwood, and Leslie C. Morey
6. Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory (MCMI-IV) for Assessing Disordered Thought and Perception
   James P. Choca
7. Rating Scales for Assessing Disordered Thought and Perception
   James H. Kleiger

Part III. Performance-Based Measures

8. Rorschach Comprehensive System (RCS) for Assessing Disordered Thought and Perception
   Irving B. Weiner
9. Rorschach Performance Assessment System (R-PAS) for Assessing Disordered Thought and Perception
   Gregory J. Meyer and Joni L. Mihura
10. Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) for Assessing Disordered Thought and Perception
    Hedwig Teglasi
11. Wartegg Drawing Completion Test (WDCT) for Assessing Disordered Thought and Perception
    Alessandro Crisi

Part IV. Cognitive and Neuropsychological Measures

12. Intelligence Measures for Assessing Disordered Thought and Perception
    John Reddon, Salvatore B. Durante, and Donald H. Saklofske
13. Neuropsychological Measures for Assessing Disordered Thought and Perception
    Jed Yalof

Part V. Special Topics

14. Forensic Considerations in the Assessment of Disordered Thought and Perception
    Marvin W. Acklin
15. Assessing Disordered Thinking and Perception in Children and Adolescents
    Sandra W. Russ and Alexis W. Lee
16. Cross-Cultural Considerations in the Assessment of Disordered Thought and Perception
    Bruce L. Smith

Part VI. Case Illustrations

17. Assessing Disordered Thought and Perception With an Adolescent: A Multimethod Case Example
    James H. Kleiger
18. Assessing Disordered Thought and Perception With an Adult: A Multimethod Case Example
    Irving B. Weiner

Index

About the Editors

Irving B. Weiner, PhD, ABBP, is a retired professor of psychiatry and behavioral neurosciences at the University of South Florida and former director of psychological services at the University of South Florida Psychiatry Center in Tampa, Florida.

He is a fellow of the American Psychological Association and of 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, and editor-in-chief of the 12-volume Handbook of Psychology.

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, Maryland.

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, Kansas.

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