{"product_id":"collaborative-therapeutic-assessment-isbn-9780470551356","title":"Collaborative \/ Therapeutic Assessment","description":"A guide to conducting Collaborative\/Therapeutic Assessment to promote client growth  \u003cp\u003eMental health professionals are increasingly enthusiastic about and ready to use psychological test data, research, and theory in life-relevant ways to improve diagnosis, client care, and treatment outcomes. With Collaborative\/Therapeutic Assessment (C\/TA), clients participate actively with the assessor in exploring how their test scores and patterns reflect who they are in their daily lives and how they can learn to help themselves cope with life's challenges.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eUsing a case study approach to demonstrate how to apply C\/TA in practice, Collaborative\/Therapeutic Assessment provides practitioners with a variety of flexible and adaptable case examples featuring adults, children, adolescents, couples, and families from different backgrounds in need of treatment for assorted concerns.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDesigned for both experienced and novice clinicians, the book begins with a brief history of C\/TA, and provides clear definitions of the distinctions among many common approaches. It uniquely presents:\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003e \u003cp\u003eEighteen diverse C\/TA assessments covering: depression, multiple suicide attempts, severe abuse, dissociation, an adolescent psychiatric ward, custody evaluation, a couple in crisis, and collaborative neuropsychology\u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e \u003cp\u003eGuidance on how both client and clinician can agree on the best course of action through joint exploration of assessment procedures, results, and implications\u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e \u003cp\u003eClosely related approaches to psychological testing, including Individualized Assessment, Collaborative Assessment, Therapeutic Model of Assessment, Collaborative\/Therapeutic Neuropsychological Assessment, and Rorschach-based psychotherapy\u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e \u003cp\u003eClearly labeled Teaching Points in each chapter\u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCollaborative\/Therapeutic Assessment\u003c\/i\u003e provides psychologists in all areas of assessment, and at all levels of experience, with powerful C\/TA examples that can dramatically illuminate and improve clients' lives.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePreface vii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAbout the Contributors xix\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Collaborative\/Therapeutic Assessment: Basic Concepts, History, and Research 1\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eStephen E. Finn, Constance T. Fischer, and Leonard Handler\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: Assessments of Individual Adults\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Therapeutic Assessment of a Dissociating Client: Learning Internal Navigation 27\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJudith Armstrong\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Therapeutic Assessment of Depression: Love’s Labors Lost? 47\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMarc J. Diener, Mark J. Hilsenroth, Thomas D. Cromer, Frank P. Pesale, and Jenelle Slavin-Mulford\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Collaboration in Neuropsychological Assessment: Metaphor as Intervention With a Suicidal Adult 69\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDiane H. Engelman and J. B. Allyn\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Collaboration Throughout the Assessment: A Young Man in Transition 93\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eConstance T. Fischer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Therapeutic Assessment for a Treatment in Crisis Following Multiple Suicide Attempts 113\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJ. Christopher Fowler\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Using Therapeutic Assessment to Explore Emotional Constriction: A Creative Professional in Crisis 133\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJan H. Kamphuis and Hilde de Saeger\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Therapeutic Assessment Involving Multiple Life Issues: Coming to Terms With Problems of Health, Culture, and Learning 157\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eHale Martin and Erin Jacklin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Collaborative Assessment for Psychotherapy: Witnessing A Woman’s Reawakening 179\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePatrick J. McElfresh\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Therapeutic Assessment of Severe Abuse: A Woman Living With Her Past 199\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCarol Groves Overton\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: Assessments of Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 Therapeutic Assessment of an Adolescent: An Adopted Teenager Comes to Feel Understood 225\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMarita Frackowiak\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 Collaborative Storytelling With Children: An Unruly Six- Year- Old Boy 243\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLeonard Handler\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 Rorschach- Based Psychotherapy: Collaboration With a Suicidal Young Woman 269\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNoriko Nakamura\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14 Collaborative Assessment of a Child in Foster Care: New Understanding of Bad Behavior 291\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCaroline Purves\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15 Therapeutic Assessment With a 10- Year- Old Boy and His Parents: The Pain Under the Disrespect 311\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDeborah J. Tharinger, Melissa E. Fisher, and Bradley Gerber\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16 Collaborative Assessment on an Adolescent Psychiatric Ward: A Psychotic Teenage Girl 335\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eHeikki Toivakka\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III: Special Applications\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17 Therapeutic Assessment Alternative to Custody Evaluation: An Adolescent Whose Parents Could Not Stop Fighting 357\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eF. Barton Evans\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18 Therapeutic Assessment With a Couple in Crisis: Undoing Problematic Projective Identification via the Consensus Rorschach 379\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eStephen E. Finn\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19 Case Studies in Collaborative Neuropsychology: A Man With Brain Injury and a Child With Learning Problems 401\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTad T. Gorske and Steven R. Smith\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAfterword: Forward! 421\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eConstance T. Fischer, Leonard Handler, and Stephen E. Finn\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAuthor Index 427\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSubject Index 430\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cb\u003eStephen E. Finn, PhD\u003c\/b\u003e, is the founder of the Center for Therapeutic Assessment and an Adjunct Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eManual for Using the MMPI-2 as a Therapeutic Intervention\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eIn Our Clients’ Shoes: Theory and Techniques of Therapeutic Assessment\u003c\/i\u003e.  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eConstance T. Fischer, PhD, ABPP\u003c\/b\u003e, is the Duquesne University N.J. Dick Endowed Chair of Commonly Outreach. She is best known for Pioneering and individualized\/collaborative\/therapeutic approach to psychological assessment, for which she received several awards. She edited \u003ci\u003eQualitative Research Methods for Psychologists: Introduction through Empirical Studies\u003c\/i\u003e and received the Carl Rogers Award from the APA division of Humanistic Psychology and Dusquense University’s Presidential Award for Scholarship.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLeonard Handler, PhD, ABAP,\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor and Associate Director of the Clinical Training Program at the University of Tennessee, Dr. Handler is coeditor of the \u003ci\u003eJournal of Personality Assessment\u003c\/i\u003e and serves on its editorial board. He has received numerous research awards and has also served as Director of the University of Tennessee Psychological Clinic.\u003c\/p\u003e  A guide to conducting Collaborative\/Therapeutic Assessment to promote client growth  \u003cp\u003eMental health professionals are increasingly enthusiastic about and ready to use psychological test data, research, and theory in life-relevant ways to improve diagnosis, client care, and treatment outcomes. With Collaborative\/Therapeutic Assessment (C\/TA), clients participate actively with the assessor in exploring how their test scores and patterns reflect who they are in their daily lives and how they can learn to help themselves cope with life's challenges.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eUsing a case study approach to demonstrate how to apply C\/TA in practice, Collaborative\/Therapeutic Assessment provides practitioners with a variety of flexible and adaptable case examples featuring adults, children, adolescents, couples, and families from different backgrounds in need of treatment for assorted concerns.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDesigned for both experienced and novice clinicians, the book begins with a brief history of C\/TA, and provides clear definitions of the distinctions among many common approaches. It uniquely presents:\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003e \u003cp\u003eEighteen diverse C\/TA assessments covering: depression, multiple suicide attempts, severe abuse, dissociation, an adolescent psychiatric ward, custody evaluation, a couple in crisis, and collaborative neuropsychology\u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e \u003cp\u003eGuidance on how both client and clinician can agree on the best course of action through joint exploration of assessment procedures, results, and implications\u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e \u003cp\u003eClosely related approaches to psychological testing, including Individualized Assessment, Collaborative Assessment, Therapeutic Model of Assessment, Collaborative\/Therapeutic Neuropsychological Assessment, and Rorschach-based psychotherapy\u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e \u003cp\u003eClearly labeled Teaching Points in each chapter\u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCollaborative\/Therapeutic Assessment\u003c\/i\u003e provides psychologists in all areas of assessment, and at all levels of experience, with powerful C\/TA examples that can dramatically illuminate and improve clients' lives.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47988944306405,"sku":"NP9780470551356","price":76.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780470551356.jpg?v=1761782152","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/collaborative-therapeutic-assessment-isbn-9780470551356","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}