Psychological assessment of children in a community mental health clinic

Journal of Personality Assessment

Volumn 93, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-6

  Mercer, Barbara L ^a  

^a WestCoast Children's Clinic   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; CHILD WELFARE; COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER; FOSTER CARE; HUMAN; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; METHODOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; CALIFORNIA; CHILD; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; CHILD WELFARE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTERS; COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; FOSTER HOME CARE; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS;

EID: 78650611796     PISSN: 00223891     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00223891.2011.528741     Document Type: Article

References (45)

1. Allen, J. (1998). Personality assessment with American Indians and Alaska Natives: Instrument considerations and service delivery style. Journal of Personality Assessment, 70, 17-42.
2. Allen, J., & Dana, R. H. (2004). Methodological issues in cross-cultural and multicultural Rorschach research. Journal of Personality Assessment, 82, 189-206.
3. Altman, N. (2005). The analyst in the inner city. Boca Raton, FL: The Analytic Press.
4. Armstrong, J. G., & Loewenstein, R. J. (1990). Characteristics of patients with multiple personality and dissociative disorders on psychological testing. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 178, 448-454.
5. Bellak, L., & Bellak, S. (1991). Children's Apperception Test. Larchmont, NY: C.P.S. (Original work published 1949)
6. Bion, W. R. (1962). Learning from experience. London, UK: Marsfield.
7. Butcher, J. N., & Hass, G. (2009, March). Considering culture, race & ethnicity in personality assessment. Paper presented at the meeting for Society for Personality Assessment, Chicago, IL.
8. Cornos, F. (2004). Parental death and foster care: A personal and professional perspective. Journal of Infant, Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy, 3, 342-355.
9. Crowell, K. (2009). Understanding the trauma of child prostitution: An exploratory examination comparing child sexual abuse victims to commercially sexually exploited minors. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Pacific Graduate School of Psychology, Redwood City, CA.
10. Dana, R. H. (Ed.). (2000). Handbook of cross-cultural and multicultural personality assessment. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
11. Dawes, R. M., Faust, D., & Meehl, P. E. (1989). Clinical versus actuarial judgment. Science, 243, 1668-1674.
12. Elliot, C. D. (2007). Differential abilities scale II (DAS-II R®). San Antonio, TX: Pearson Education.
13. Engleman, D. H. (2007, March). Advantages of collaboration in a complicated adolescent neuropsychological assessment. Paper presented at the meeting of the Society for Personality Assessment, Washington, DC.
14. Eshom, J. (2006). An examination of the impact of trauma and multiple placements in foster children using the ego impairment index-2 on the Rorschach. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, The Wright Institute, Berkeley, CA.
15. Exner, J. E. (1969). The Rorschach systems. New York. Grune & Stratton.
16. Fernando, A. D. (2008). Examples from the road: Mindlessness in-home. Journal of Infant, Child, and Adolescent Psychotherapy, 7, 88-99.
17. Fernando, A. D., & Langs, J. (2009) MEGA RFP-23-2009: Child, youth and family system of care, adult and older system of care, behavioral health services. Submitted grant proposal.
18. Finn, S. E. (2007). In our client's shoes. New York, NY: Taylor & Francis.
19. Finn, S.E. (2011/this issue). Therapeutic Assessment "on the Front Lines": Comment on articles from WestCoast Children's Clinic. Journal of Personality Assessment, 93, 23-25.
20. Finn, S. E., & Tonsager, M. E. (1997). Information-gathering and therapeutic models of assessment: Complementary paradigms. Psychological Assessment, 9, 374-385.
21. Fischer, C. T. (1994). Individualizing psychological assessment. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. (Original work published 1985)
22. Gin, K. B. (2008). Demands upon the mind for work: Fostering agency within an organization. Journal of Infant, Child, and Adolescent Psychotherapy, 7, 79-87.
23. Goldblatt, N. G. F. (2003). Assessment of object relations phenomena in foster children. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, The Wright Institute, Berkeley, CA.
24. Guerrero, B., Lipkind, J., & Rosenberg, A. (2011/this issue). Why did she put nail polish in my drink? Applying the Therapeutic Assessment model with an African American foster child in a community mental health setting. Journal of Personality Assessment, 93, 7-15.
25. Handler, L. (2008). Supervision in therapeutic and collaborative assessment. In A. Hess, K. Hess,&T.Hess (Eds.), Psychotherapy supervision (pp. 200-222). New York, NY: Wiley.
26. Haydel, M. E., Mercer, B. L., & Rosenblatt, E. (2011/this issue). Training assessors in Therapeutic Assessment. Journal of Personality Assessment, 93, 16-22.
27. Kelly, F. (1999). The psychological assessment of abused and traumatized children. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
28. Kim, K. H. (2005). An exploratory study of disordered thinking with aggressive children in foster care. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, The Wright Institute, Berkeley, CA.
29. Klopfer, W. G. (1954). Principles of report writing. In M. D. Ainsworth, W. G. Klopfer, & R. R. Holt (Eds.), Developments in the Rorschach technique: Vol. 1. Technique and theory (pp. 601-610). New York, NY: Harcourt, Brace & World.
30. Kwawer, J. (1980). Primitive interpersonal modes, borderline phenomena, and Rorschach content. In J.Kwawer,A. Sugarman,&P.Lerner (Eds.), Borderline phenomena and the Rorschach test (pp. 89-105).Madison, CT: International Universities Press, Inc.
31. Leary, K. (2000). Racial enactments in dynamic treatment. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 10, 639-655.
32. Lerner, P. (2007).When we were comrades together: A note on the language of assessment. Journal of Personality Assessment, 88, 255-263.
33. McArthur, D. S., & Roberts, G. E. (1982). The Roberts Apperception Test for Children; manual. Los Angeles, CA: Western Psychological Services.
34. McDonald, T.,&Allen,R. (1996). Assessing the long-term effects of foster-care: A research synthesis. Washington, DC: CWLA Press.
35. Mercer, B. L. (2003, March). Rorschach variables of children in foster care: W:M ratio, egocentricity ratio, and projective metaphor. Paper presented at the meeting of the Society for Personality Assessment, San Francisco, CA.
36. Meehl, P. (1954). Clinical versus statistical prediction: A theoretical analysis and review of the evidence. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
37. Murray, H. (1943). Thematic Appercept Test Manual. Cambridge,MA: Harvard University Press.
38. Needell, B., Webster, D., Armijo, M., Lee, S., Dawson, W., & Magruder, J. (2008). Child welfare services reports for California. Retrieved from University of California of Berkeley Center for Social Services research Web site: http//cssr.berkeley.edu/ucb child welfare
39. Shaffer, T. W., Erdberg, P., & Meyer, G. J. (2007). Introduction to the JPA special supplement on international reference samples for the Rorschach comprehensive system. Journal of Personality Assessment, 89, 52-56.
40. Smith, S. R. (2007, March). Collaborative therapeutic neuropsychological assessment: What has been learned one year later? Paper presented at the meeting of the Society for Personality Assessment, Washington, DC.
41. Tharinger, D. J., Finn, S. E., Wilkinson, A. D., & Schaber, P. M. (2007). Therapeutic Assessment with a child as a family intervention: A clinical protocol and research case study. Psychology in the Schools, 44, 293-309.
42. Viglione, D. J. (2003). New ventures in Rorschach interpretation: Systematic methods for case studies. Paper presented at the meeting of the Society for Personality Assessment, San Francisco, CA.
43. Viglione, D. J., Perry, W., & Meyer, G. (2003). Refinements in the Rorschach ego impairment index incorporating the human representation variable. Journal of Personality Assessment, 81, 149-156.
44. Wechsler, D. (2003). Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (4th ed.). San Antonio, TX: Harcourt Assessment.
45. Wulczyn, F., Brunner, K., & Goerge, R. (2002). Multistate foster care data archive. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.