Stephen E. Finn - In Our Clients Shoes (Counseling and Psychotherapy)

Theory and Tech nicjues of Therapeutic Assessment

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Part I
The History and Development of Therapeutic Assessment

Introduction: What Is Therapeutic Assessment?

Appreciating the Power and Potential of Psychological Assessment

Therapeutic Assessment: Would Harry Approve?

How Therapeutic Assessment Became Humanistic (written with Mary E. Tonsager)

Part II
Specific Techniques of Therapeutic Assessment

Testing Ones Own Clients Mid-Therapy With the Rorschach

Giving Clients Feedback About Defensive Test Protocols

Assessment Feedback Integrating MMPI2 and Rorschach Findings

Assessment Intervention Sessions: Using Softer Tests to Demonstrate Harder Test Findings With Clients

One-Up, One-Down, and In-Between: A Collaborative Model of Assessment Consultation

Therapeutic Assessment of a Man With ADD

Collaborative Sequence Analysis of the Rorschach

Using the Consensus Rorschach as an Assessment Intervention With Couples

But I Was Only Trying to Help!: Failure of a Therapeutic Assessment

Collaborative Child Assessment as a Family Systems Intervention

Teaching Therapeutic Assessment in a Required Graduate Course

Part III
Theoretical Developments

Please Tell Me That Im Not Who I Fear I Am: Control-Mastery Theory and Therapeutic Assessment

Challenges and Lessons of Intersubjectivity Theory for Psychological Assessment

How Psychological Assessment Taught Me Compassion and Firmness

Conclusion: Practicing Therapeutic Assessment

Constance T. Fischer

Part I
The History and Development of Therapeutic Assessment

Introduction: What Is Therapeutic Assessment?

The basic concepts and procedures of Therapeutic Assessment are introduced.

Appreciating the Power and Potential of Psychological Assessment

Psychologists are challenged to acknowledge the life-changing power of psychological assessment. The author tells about his first clinical assessment as a psychology graduate student, through which he became convinced that assessment could affect clients in profound ways.

Therapeutic Assessment: Would Harry Approve?

Links are drawn between the interpersonal theories of Harry Stack Sullivan and the procedures of Therapeutic Assessment. The authors study of Sullivan helped shape Therapeutic Assessment.

How Therapeutic Assessment Became Humanistic (written with Mary E. Tonsager)

The overlap is described between Therapeutic Assessment and Humanistic Psychology. Humanistic procedures were incorporated into Therapeutic Assessment because they proved to benefit clients.

Part II
Specific Techniques of Therapeutic Assessment

Testing Ones Own Clients Mid-Therapy With the Rorschach

Traditionally, assessors have been cautioned against giving the Rorschach to their own psychotherapy clients. The author talks about instances when this practice can be useful and provides four case examples.

Giving Clients Feedback About Defensive Test Protocols

Therapeutic Assessment views guarded or defensive test protocols as signs that clients have conflicting motivations regarding an assessment. Specific guidelines are presented about how to talk to such clients about their test results.

Assessment Feedback Integrating MMPI2 and Rorschach Findings

The MMPI2 and Rorschach tap different levels of clients experience, and this fact is important in understanding patterns of agreement and disagreement between the two tests. Guidelines are presented for giving feedback to clients with different patterns of scores and the author illustrates these guidelines with a detailed case example.

Assessment Intervention Sessions: Using Softer Tests to Demonstrate Harder Test Findings With Clients