What the Rorschach can do for you: Incremental validity in clinical applications

Assessment

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 327-339

  Weiner, Irving B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Impression management; Multimethod assessment; Personality assessment; Rorschach; Validity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CHILD; CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY; CUSTODY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DOMESTIC VIOLENCE; FEMALE; FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY; HUMAN; LEGAL ASPECT; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; METHODOLOGY; MINNESOTA MULTIPHASIC PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PARENT; PERSONALITY TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REPRODUCIBILITY; REVIEW; STANDARD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ADULT; CHILD; CHILD CUSTODY; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DOMESTIC VIOLENCE; FEMALE; FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MMPI; PARENTS; PSYCHOLOGY, CLINICAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RORSCHACH TEST;

EID: 0040017639     PISSN: 10731911     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/107319119900600404     Document Type: Article

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