From the Back Cover
This book on Rorschach assessment addresses both the complexities of adolescent development and the intricacies of differentiating between normal and abnormal behavioral manifestations. It presents the theory, research, and basic practices of Rorschach assessment and examines the developmental considerations for its use with adolescents, both as a stand-alone instrument and in conjunction with self-report measures. The book's collection of detailed case studies shows the Rorschach method in use with adolescents from different countries across the age group and reflects diverse symptoms. In addition, the new Rorschach Psychoanalytic Science and Practice (RPSP) model endorses the relevance of the method to contemporary practice.
Featured coverage includes:
- Developmental considerations in Rorschach assessment.
- Diagnostic, forensic, and therapeutic applications of Rorschach assessment with adolescents.
- An integrative perspective on the Rorschach task and its implications for understanding personality functioning from different psychodynamic perspectives.
- Psychometric properties of the Rorschach.
- New normative international data for adolescents.
Rorschach Assessment of Adolescents is a must-have resource for researchers, professionals, and graduate students in child clinical and school psychology; forensic medicine; assessment, testing, and evaluation; developmental psychology; and educational psychology.
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"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
"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
"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
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).
