Review
"This text is the best on the market." "[Has] more useful and concrete information than other clinical psychology texts." "Discussion of important issues to which students will be exposed in clinical psychology graduate school."
About the Author
Dr. Timothy Trull is a professor of psychology at University of Missouri-Columbia, where he enjoys both teaching a variety of courses in clinical psychology, particularly abnormal psychology and psychometrics, and supervising graduate students in their research, assessment, and clinical work. He earned his M.A. and Ph.D. in clinical psychology at University of Kentucky. He is a co-author of the Structured Interview for the Five-Factor Model of Personality (SIFFM), which assesses both adaptive and maladaptive personality features, and an Associate Editor of the journal Psychological Assessment. Dr. Trull publishes much of his research in the Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Psychological Assessment, and the Journal of Personality Disorders. Sponsored through grants from the National Institute of Health, the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, and the Borderline Personality Disorder Research Foundation, his current research projects include evaluating etiological models of borderline personality disorder, exploring the relations between personality disorders and substance use disorders, and assessing genetic and environmental influences on personality and psychopathology. In addition, Dr. Trull is a member of the scientific faculty at the Midwest Alcohol Research Center (MARC) and a practicing clinical psychologist.