Assessment Articles

Assessment Links

The links below have been made for my CSoPP students, but anyone interested in assessment should feel free to use them…

Feel free to wander through the rest of the site. The Learning Section and The Family Resources Section both have other useful links.

Introduction

Interviewing

Mental Status Exam

Drugs and What They Do

Prescription Drugs
Street Drugs
Club Drugs from the NIDA
Interview on Substance Abuse
The Twelve Steps to Recovery
Triggers to Relapse
Characteristics of Adult Children of Alcoholics
Some Characteristics of Codependence
Treatment of Substance Abuse in Couples
Therapy Manuals for Drug Addiction from the National Institute on Drug Abuse

Assessment of Special Topics

Activities of Daily Living

Assess Activities of Daily Living and Disability
Activities of Daily Living II
How To: Vocational Abilities

Depression and Suicide
Assess Suicide Risk
Assessing Depression

Risk of Harm to Others
Dangerous Clients: Assessment and Work
Assessing Risk To Harm

Domestic Violence
Assessing for Domestic Violence
Causes of Domestic Violence
Cycle of Violence
Who is the Batterer: Who is the Victim? Mutual Combat
Why Don't They Just Leave?
Safety Plans
Treatment Of Domestic Violence
Types of Domestic Violence

Strengths
Integrating Tests and Interviews
Strengths in Psychological Assessment
Precursors to Change

Cognitive Assessment

Orienting Understanding:

What are Intelligence and IQ This is Part I of six linked handouts on the nature of intelligence, different models of intelligence, and how we understand it today. It leaves two questions about group differences unanswered.
Mainstream Science on Intelligence

Intelligence and Culture
Culture and IQ This is Part I of ten handouts on group and cultural diferences in intelligence, and the debate they have stirred.
Cracking Open the IQ Box - explanation of the arguments presented by Howard Gardner

Charts
Number Conversions and Equivalencies

School Experience and IQ
School Report #1
School Report #2
School Report #3
School Report #4

WAIS
Introduction to the WAIS III
Administration of the WAIS III

WISC
WISC IV Administration
WISC IV History

Bender
Bender Gestalt Visual Motor Test
Bender Adult Scoring Form
Bender Child Scoring Form

WRAT
WRAT III

Personality Assessment

Orienting Understanding:

Testing Points
Integrating Tests and Interviews
Just Enough Theory to Get By
Faking and Personality Assessment
Introductory Notes on Objective Personality Assessment
Objective Tests
Ode to Meehl
Computers and Psychological Testing

MMPI 2
The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory 2
Some Notes on Codetypes
Culture and the MMPI 2
The MMPI C (joke)
Welsh Coding System

NEO Personality Inventory R
NEO PI R
Validty Data for the NEO PI R

Personality Assessment Inventory
The PAI

Projective Personality Assessment
Introductory Notes to Projective Personality Assessment

The Thematic Apperception Test
The TAT and Borderline, Narcissistic, and Psychotic Patients
Schafer and Holt - Formal Aspects of the TAT
Clinical Assessment of Object Relations Using the TAT
Blank TAT Sheet
TAT Interpretations

The Rorschach
The Rorschach - Basic Notes
Reliability and Validity of the Rorschach
The Rorschach and Cultural Issues
Color Shock
Rorschach Indexes
The Rorschach and Cultural Issues

Projective Drawings
Basic Notes

Supervision

Writing the Report

Feedback

Diagnosing

The DSM IV - information on how it is set up and some cultural issues
Personality Disorder Map I - information on the major personality disorders, their thoughts, and a comparison of characteristics and traits of the disorder.
Antisocial Personality Disorder speical discussion and
more on treatment