Collaborative / Therapeutic Assessment A Casebook and Guide

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.

Stephen E Finn PhD, is the founder of the Center for Therapeutic Assessment and an Adjunct Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of Manual for Using the MMPI-l2 tas a Therapeutic Intervention and In Our Clients Shoes: Theory and Techniques of Therapeutic Assessment. Constance T. Fischer, PhD, ABPP, is the Duquesne University N.J. Dick Endowed Chair of Community Outreach. She is best known for pioneering an individualized/collaborative/therapeutic approach to psychological assessment, for which she has received several awards. She edited Qualitative Research Methods for Psychologists: Introduction through Empirical Studies and received the Carl Rogers Award from the APA division of Humanistic Psychology and Duquesne University's Presidential Award for Scholarship. Leonard Handler, PhD, ABAP, is Professor and Associate Director of the Clinical Training Program at the University of Tennessee. Dr. Handler is coeditor of the Journal of Personality Assessment and serves on its editorial board. He has received numerous research awards and has also served as Director of the University of Tennessee Psychological Clinic.