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- Discusses key issues in Rorschach assessment of adolescents, articularly differentiating patterns of psychopathology from normal developmental variations
- Provides administrative and coding guidelines and psychodynamic developmental perspectives on interpreting data
- Recommends various applications of Rorschach assessment of teens with respect to differential diagnosis, forensic consultation, and therapeutic assessment
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Advancing Responsible Adolescent Development (ARAD)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The Rorschach Inkblot Method: Theory, Research, and Practice
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Front Matter
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Applications of Rorschach Assessment of Adolescents
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Front Matter
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Toward Empirically Based Psychodynamic Assessment of Adolescents
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Keywords
- Adolescent development
- Assessment of adolescents
- Cognitive dysfunction during adolescence
- Emotional difficulties and adolescents
- Interpersonal isolation during adolescence
- Mental functioning in adolescence
- Performance-based personality assessment
- Personality assessment of adolescents
- Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual (PDM)
- Psychodynamic therapeutic assessment
- RPS-CA
- Rorschach Comprehensive System
- Rorschach Inkblot Method and adolescent assessment
- Rorschach Psychoanalytic Science - Children and Adolescents
- Rorschach Reality-Fantasy Scale (RFS-2)
- Self-perception and adolescents
Reviews
“Rorschach Assessment of Adolescents: Theory, Research, and Practice will likely appeal to a graduate students and clinicians who routinely conduct psychological evaluations or value evaluations as a component of treatment. The reader will appreciate the organization of the material as well as the relevant, empirically supported, and thoughtful contents.” (Lisa Fitzgibbons, PsycCRITIQUES, Vol. 61 (39), September, 2016)
“This book covers the use of the Rorschach test with adolescents, with case studies from different countries. The intended audience includes researchers, professionals, and graduate students in child and school psychology, forensic medicine, and assessment, testing, and evaluation. … Written by experts in the field, this readable book with helpful case illustrations should be in the hands of clinicians and researchers who are interested in projective testing.” (Gary B. Kaniuk, Doody's Book Reviews, June, 2016)
“The clear, elegant conceptualization of complex clinical constructs and fascinating clinical case examples guarantee that this volume will set the standard for psychological assessment of adolescents for many years to come.”
Ronald J. Ganellen
President, Society for Personality Assessment
Associate Professor, Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine
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“Based on decades of rigorous research, the authors’ Rorschach Psychoanalytic Science and Practice model blends empirical rigor with clinical wisdom to capture the uniqueness of adolescents’ subjective experience.”
Robert F. Bornstein
President-Elect, Society for Personality Assessment
Professor of Psychology, Adelphi University
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“With an excellent blend of theory and research findings, this book brings Rorschach assessment of adolescents into the contemporary mental health assessment context.”
Radhika Krishnamurthy
Past President, Society for Personality Assessment
Clinical Psychology Professor, Florida Institute of Technology
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“This lively and highly readable volume by two renowned psychologists is grounded in both empirical findings and data. Its latest psychoanalytic theories will prove invaluable to researchers and clinicians alike.”
Bruce L. Smith, Ph.D.
Past President, International Rorschach Society
Associate Professor, University of California, Berkeley
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“Clinicians will find this book remarkably helpful in their efforts to provide the best possible assessment and care of adolescent patients.”
Steven Huprich
Editor, Journal of Personality Assessment
Director of Clinical Training, Wichita State University
Authors and Affiliations
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Goldsmiths, University of London, London, United Kingdom
Shira Tibon-Czopp
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University of South Florida, Tampa, USA
Irving B. Weiner
About the authors
Shira Tibon-Czopp, PhD, ABAP, is a Visiting Research Fellow at Goldsmiths, University of London, where she conducted her dissertation project, supervised by Herbert H. Blumberg, in 1996-1998. She is also an Adjunct Professor at the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya. She is in the practice of clinical and forensic psychology in Tel-Aviv, Israel. Professor Tibon-Czopp is a Diplomate of the American Board of Assessment Psychology and a Fellow of the American Academy of Assessment Psychology and the Society for Personality Assessment, in which she serves as a member of the international committee. She worked as a senior clinician in inpatient and outpatient public clinics for children, adolescents and adults, and has been lecturing in various clinical programs including those of Tel-Aviv University and Bar-Ilan University. Some of her recent publications include an essay on Psychology in Israel, in The Corsini Encyclopedia of Psychology (4th ed. 2010); an essay on the Rorschach Inkblot Method in the Encyclopedia of Adolescence (2012); Invited Commentary in Journal of Youth and Adolescence (2012); a co-authored article on normative CS data for Israeli Adolescents in Journal of Personality Assessment (2012); and a co-authored case study in Neurocase (2014).
Irving B. Weiner, Ph.D., ABPP, is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine at the University of South Florida and former Director of Psychological Services at the University of South Florida Psychiatry Center in Tampa, Florida. He resides in Tampa and is in the practice of clinical and forensic psychology. Dr. Weiner is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and of the Association for Psychological Science and a Diplomate of the American Board of Professional Psychology in both Clinical and Forensic Psychology. He has served as President of APA Division 12 (Society for Clinical Psychology),APA Division 5 (Evaluation, Measurement, and Statistics), the Society for Personality Assessment, and of the International Rorschach Society. He has published books on psychodiagnosis, psychotherapy, child and adolescent development, developmental psychopathology, and forensic psychology, including Principles of Psychotherapy (3rd ed., 2009), Principles of Rorschach Interpretation (2nd ed., 2003), Handbook of Personality Assessment (2008), Adult Psychopathology Case Studies (2004), and Handbook of Forensic Psychology (4th ed., 2014).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Rorschach Assessment of Adolescents
Book Subtitle: Theory, Research, and Practice
Authors: Shira Tibon-Czopp, Irving B. Weiner
Series Title: Advancing Responsible Adolescent Development
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-3151-4
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-3150-7Published: 08 January 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-7990-5Published: 30 March 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4939-3151-4Published: 08 January 2016
Series ISSN: 2195-089X
Series E-ISSN: 2195-0903
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 245
Topics: Child and School Psychology, Forensic Medicine, Assessment, Testing and Evaluation, Developmental Psychology, Educational Psychology