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.

James H. Kleiger, ABAP, ABPP is a practicing assessment psychologist and psychoanalyst in Bethesda MD. Formerly the Director of Postdoctoral Psychology Training at Menninger Clinic and Past-President of the Baltimore Washington Society for Personality Assessment and a Diplomate in both clinical and assessment psychology. Dr. Kleiger has published numerous papers and book chapters and is the author of Disordered Thinking and the Rorschach (1999), published by Analytic Press; co-author with Ali Khadivi of Assessing Psychosis: A Clinician's Guide (2015), published by Routledge; author of Rorschach Assessment of Psychotic Phenomena (2017), also published by Routledge; author of The 11th Inkblot: A Novel, published by IP Books; and with Irving Weiner, Psychological Assessment of Disordered Thinking and Perception. 

Irving B. Weiner, PhD, ABPP is a retired Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences at the University of South Florida. Dr. Weiner is a Diplomate in clinical and forensic psychology and a Fellow in the American Psychological Association and the Association of Psychological Science. He has been President of the Society for Personality Assessment, of the Clinical Division of the APA, and of the International Rorschach Society. His authored books include Principles of Rorschach Interpretation (1998, 2003), published by Erlbaum, and Handbook of Personality Assessment (2008, 2017), published by Wiley. He has also been Editor-in-Chief of Wiley's 12-volume Handbook of Psychology (2003, 2013) and co-editor of the Handbook of Forensic Psychology (1987, 1999, 2008, 2017), also published by Wiley.

Introduction. Conceptual and Diagnostic Issues in the Assessment of Bipolar Spectrum Disorders James H. Kleiger & Irving B. Weiner Chapter 1. The Value of Multi-method Psychological Assessment Virginia M. BrabenderPart I. Interview & Self-report Methods
Chapter 2. Clinical Interview Methods for Assessing Bipolar Spectrum Disorders Ali Khadivi Chapter 3. Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, Third Edition (MMPI-3) Assessment of Bipolar Spectrum Disorders Martin Sellbom, Anthony M. Tarescavage & Megan Whitman Chapter 4. Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI) Assessment of Bipolar Spectrum Disorders Morgan N. McCredie, Christopher J. Hopwood & Leslie C. Morey Chapter 5. Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory (MCMI-IV) Assessment of Bipolar Spectrum Disorders James P. Choca Chapter 6. SPECTRA Assessment of Bipolar Spectrum Disorders Mark Blais & Justin Sinclair Chapter 7. Rating Scales Screening Assessment of Bipolar Spectrum Disorders James H. KleigerPart II. 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) and the Assessment of Bipolar Spectrum Disorders Joni L. Mihura Chapter 10. Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) Assessment of Bipolar Spectrum Disorders Sharon Jenkins Chapter 11. Cognitive & Neuropsychological Assessment of Bipolar Spectrum Disorders Jed YalofPart III. Considerations in Differential Diagnosis
Chapter 12. Assessment of Bipolar Spectrum Disorders, Dysregulated Mood & ADHD in Children & Adolescents Anthony Bram & Ksera Dyette Chapter 13. Assessment of Bipolar Spectrum & Medical Conditions Panagiota Korenis Chapter 14. Assessment of Bipolar Spectrum & Personality Disorders Robert F. Bornstein Chapter 15. Assessment of Bipolar Spectrum & Trauma-Related Disorders F. Barton Evans, Bethany Brand & Nancy Kaiser-Boyd Chapter 16. Assessment of Bipolar Spectrum & Schizophrenia James H. Kleiger & Ali Khadivi Chapter 17. Assessment of Manic-Depressive Personalities Odile Husain Chapter 18. Assessment of Bipolar Spectrum Disorders within a Multicultural Context Linda F. McGheePart IV. Case Illustrations
Chapter 19. Assessment of Bipolar Spectrum Disorder in an Adolescent James H. Kleiger Chapter 20. Assessing Bipolar Spectrum Disorder in an Adult Irving B. Weiner