James N. Butcher

This is a pretty decent intro abnormal psych textbook: fairly comprehensive, reasonably well written, nicely laid out in terms of its design. There's plenty of Canada-specific content, too, which is really great and truly a boon for Canadian students.

PDFBU | Research in clinical personality assessment continues to be produced at a high rate. The MMPI/MMPI-2 remains the most popular instrument for both clinical application and psychopathology research. Two other clinical personality instruments, the Rorschach and TAT, continue to find a place in research and clinical assessment. Some new instruments have surfaced recently to deal with areas, such as personality disorders, that have been considered inadequately addressed. There is a show more growing recognition that the Five-Factor Model is too superficial for clinical assessment and requires more refined and broadened patient information. Clinical personality assessment has successfully survived a number of past challenges. The newest challenge stems from the healthcare revolution, in which managed-care providers are reluctant to pay for assessment because of shrinking funds. Psychologists need to develop models for incorporating assessment information into the treatment process. The future is likely to see more extensive research and theoretical development in this endeavor. | We limit our review to formal assessment procedures—psychological tests—and do not include interviews, behavioral observations, psychophysiological measures of personality, or nonstandard construction tasks such as figure drawings. Finally, we focus on research published between 1994 (give or take a few months in 1993) and March of 1995. |

Contents
INTRODUCTION........ 88
-- Table 1 Frequency of published research on clinical assessment methods over 20 years
OVERVIEW OF CLINICAL ASSESSMENT MEASURES FOR 1994...... 89
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI/MMPI-2) ..... 89
Rorschach....... 91
Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) ........... 92
Sixteen Personality Factors (16PF) ........ 92
Millon Clinical Personality Inventory (MCMI/MCMI-II/MCMI-III)....... 92
Basic Personality Inventory (BPI) and Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI) ... 93
Revised NEO Personality Inventory (NEO-PI-R) ......... 94
ASSESSMENT OF PROTOCOL VALIDITY........ 94
ASSESSMENT OF AXIS II DISORDERS........ 96
CAN THE FIVE-FACTOR MODEL BE USEFUL IN CLINICAL ASSESSMENT?............ 96
COMPUTER-BASED PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT..... 100
CLINICAL ASSESSMENT IN MANAGED CARE ....... 101
ETHICS AND TESTING.......... 102
CONCLUSIONS........ 103

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RT - Validity
BT - Psychology 1990s
NT - Assessment
UF - The document is about personality assessment, individual differences, and clinical assessment, focusing on various assessment measures and challenges in the field.
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