Integrating Tests and Interviews

Richard Niolon, Ph.D.
6/04
Basic Ideas
Integrating test and interview data is always a difficult thing to do, as you are integrating disparate kinds of information, neither of which is perfect. However, even after this, other issues come into play.

Meehl (1954) argued for an actuarial approach to our field, using statistics and later computer-based models to predict and describe people. Clinical judgment, interviewing technique, and intuition were worthless and unreliable he thought.
A basic model would be as follows:

Personality Disorders
(see Personality Disorder Map) (see also ASP Formation and Antisocial Style and Disorder)
(see Avoidant Style and Disorder)
(see Borderline Style and Disorder)
(see Dependent Style and Disorder)
(see Histrionic Style and Disorder)
(see Narcissistic Style and Disorder)

(see Obsessive Compulsive Style and Disorder)
(see Paranoid Style and Disorder)
(see Passive Agressive Style and Disorder)
(see Schizotypal and Schizoid Style and Disorder)


Other Areas/Disorders to Assess