The Oxford Handbook of Personality and Psychopathology Assessment

As one of psychology's oldest fields, personality assessment is one of the most extensively studied subsets of contemporary psychology. In this second edition of the Oxford Handbook of Personality Assessment, now titled The Oxford Handbook of Personality and Psychopathology Assessment, Joni L. Mihura brings together a respected group of international contributors to cover significant changes within the field of personality assessment. The Handbook is updated to cover a range of topics, focusing on four major goals: to integrate contemporary dimensional models of personality and psychopathology; to use a multimethod approach in which the method of assessment shapes the desired construct; to integrate collaborative/therapeutic assessment (C/TA) when possible; and to consider personality and psychopathology assessment through the lens of human diversity. Chapters highlight contemporary models of personality and psychopathology; psychometrics; diversity and inclusion (e.g. gender and gender identity, racial identity, and social justice); commonly used tests and personality assessment methods (e.g., PAIs, MMPIs, BASC, and Rorschach); the assessment of three key personality and psychopathology dimensions (internalizing, externalizing, and psychosis); and specific areas of assessment (e.g. suicide risk, violence risk, child custody, student threat assessment, and high risk assessments). The final chapter discusses key challenges and needed improvements, such as requiring construct validity meta-analyses for all test scales, improving insurance reimbursement for assessments, and the emergence of new technologies in assessment.

Providing a thorough update on the contemporary practice of personality and pathology assessment, this edition offers an authoritative and field-encompassing resource for researchers and clinicians from across the medical health and psychology disciplines.

Joni L. Mihura is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Toledo. Dr. Mihura specializes in psychological assessment and psychosis and is Board Certified in Assessment Psychology (ABAP). She received career awards from both the Society for Personality Assessment (SPA) and the American Psychoanalytic Association (APsaA). She is a Fellow of SPA, a past SPA President, and Associate Editor of the journal Assessment. She has numerous publications on personality assessment and is best known for her work with the Rorschach inkblot test--including systematic reviews and meta-analyses of the test's validity. She is the co-developer of a new Rorschach system, the Rorschach Performance Assessment System (R-PAS), for which she presents invited lectures and trainings internationally. In 2024, she founded the inaugural annual R-PAS in Multimethod Assessment Conference. She is the co-editor of two other books: Using the Rorschach Performance Assessment System (R-PAS) and the Handbook of Gender and Sexuality in Psychological Assessment.

List of Contributors

Part I: Introductory Topics

1. Introduction to The Oxford Handbook of Personality and Psychopathology Assessment
Joni L. Mihura

2. Multimethod Assessment of Personality and Psychopathology
Robert F. Bornstein

Part II: Contemporary Models and Perspectives of Personality and Psychopathology

3. The Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP) Approach to Assessment: Summary of the First Phase of the HiTOP Self-Report Measure Development Project
Leonard J. Simms, Aidan G. C. Wright, David Cicero, Roman Kotov, Stephanie N. Mullins- Sweatt, Martin Sellbom, David Watson, Thomas A. Widiger, and Johannes Zimmermann

4. The Core Self-Other Dimension of Personality Functioning
Christopher J. Hopwood, Sydney Fox, Donna S. Bender, and Johannes
Zimmermann

5. The Cultural Perspective in Personality and Psychopathology Assessment
Sumaya Laher and Fanny M. Cheung

6. An Empirically Informed Framework for Multimethod Assessment with a Focus on Psychosis
Joni L. Mihura and Madeleine Starin

Part III: Psychometric Considerations

7. Test Theory and Measurement in Assessment
David L. Streiner

8. Construct Validation of Personality Measures
Gregory T. Smith and Emily A. Atkinson

Part IV: Personality Assessment Methods

9. Therapeutic Assessment
Jan H. Kamphuis and Pamela Schaber

10. Conducting the Initial Therapeutic Assessment Session
Raja M. David

A. Self- and Observer-Report Tests

11. The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventories (Adult and Adolescent Versions)
David M. McCord and Carlo O. C. Veltri

12. Personality Assessment Inventory
Leslie C. Morey and Morgan N. McCredie

13. The ASEBA Hierarchical/ Dimensional Approach to Taxonomy and Assessment
Leslie A. Rescorla

14. The Behavior Assessment System for Children
Jihye Kim, Leigh M. Harrell- Williams, and Randy W. Kamphaus

B. Performance Tests and Methods

15. The Rorschach Performance Assessment System (R-PAS) in Multimethod Assessment
Joni L. Mihura and Gregory J. Meyer

16. Clinical Use of the Thematic Apperception Test and Other Non-Normed Idiographic Assessment Methods
Katie C. Lewis and A. Jill Clemence

Part V: Psychopathology Dimensions

17. Assessment of Internalizing Disorders
Kristin Naragon-Gainey, Tierney P. McMahon, and Juhyun Park

18. The Ubiquity, Importance, and Assessment of Agreeableness-Antagonism
Donald R. Lynam and Joshua D. Miller

19. Multimethod Assessment of Psychosis and Psychotic Phenomena
Joni L. Mihura, James H. Kleiger, and Ali Khadivi

Part VI: Assessment of Danger to Self and Others

20. Assessments of Suicide Risk
Ronald A. Stolberg, Bruce Bongar, and Tina Thach

21. Personality Factors in Violence Risk Assessment
Nancy Kaser- Boyd

Part VII: Specific Assessment Purposes

22. Civil Forensic Assessment: Child Custody
Sol R. Rappaport and Daniel B. Pickar

23. Student Threat Assessment
Dewey Cornell, Sharmila B. Mehta, and Caroline Crichlow- Ball

24. Personality Assessment in Neuropsychological Settings: An Illustration with the Personality Assessment Inventory (Brain Injuries) and Rorschach (Psychosis and Pain Disorders)
Nicolae R. Dumitrascu

25. Personality Assessment in High-Risk Employment Contexts
Chris M. Front, Deniz S. Ones, and James N. Butcher

26. Therapeutic Assessment with Couples (TA-2)
Filippo Aschieri, Camillo Caputo, and Tommaso Righetti

Part VIII: Diversity and Inclusion

27. Gender, Gender Identity, and Sexual Orientation in Personality and Psychopathology Assessment
Virginia Brabender

28. Racial Identity, Gender Identity, Social Justice, and Assessment
Philip Sayegh, Kenedy Ramos, Alea Holman, and Xzania White Lee

29. Assessment of Personality and Psychopathology with Immigrants and Refugees
Giselle A. Hass

Part IX: Interpretation and Reporting of Assessment Findings

30. Decision-Making in Psychological Assessment
David L. Streiner

31. Interpreting Convergences and Divergences in Multi-Informant, Multimethod Assessment
Andres De Los Reyes and Bridget A. Makol

32. Writing Multimethod Assessment Reports: An Integrated, Individualized, and Meaningful Approach to Report Writing
Steven R. Smith and Hadas Pade

33. Ethical Decisions in Psychological Assessment
Linda K. Knauss and Jeanne M. Slattery

34. Assessment of Personality and Psychopathology: Key Challenges and Systemic Improvements Needed
Joni L. Mihura and Kim J. Görner

Index