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Psychological Testing That Matters: Creating a Road Map for Effective Treatment 1st Edition, Kindle Edition

by Anthony D. Bram (Author), Mary Jo Peebles (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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Psychological testing is most valuable when it makes a meaningful difference in a person s treatment. This groundbreaking book offers a person- and treatment-centered approach to psychological testing, as opposed to the more common test-centered approach. The result is a clinically nuanced and robust approach to inference making and data synthesis. The book's four sections parallel the flow of an examiner moving from overview to detail and back to synthesis: Part I describes treatment-centered diagnosis; Part II focuses on assessment of the patient s psychological capacities; Part III shows how to integrate the test information into a working understanding of the patient s problems; and Part IV explains how to consolidate test findings and communicate them clearly, using a detailed case example and sample report. Readers will find much to benefit from in this evidence-based book linking test results to meaningful individualized treatment.
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  1. ISBN-13
    978-1433816741
  2. Edition
    1st
  3. Publisher
    American Psychological Association
  4. Publication date
    February 17, 2014
  5. Language
    English
  6. File size
    5106 KB
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  • John R. Meyers
    5.0 out of 5 stars Psychology Gold
    Reviewed in the United States on June 30, 2015
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    This book is outstanding. I got the hardcover rather than the Kindle version, and am glad I did so: I have been highlighting and making notations all over the place. I have a long shelf of books and articles on the Rorschach, MMPI, MCMI and the TAT, and among these are some gems (Greene, Choca, Millon, Mihura et al.)-- but none is quite as insightful and clinically helpful as Psychological Testing That Matters. The basic theme is that testing needs to inform treatment in practical and meaningful ways, and that too often assessments are heavy with results but relatively light on integration and clinical coordination. The chapter on Reality Testing and Reasoning is easily the best treatment of this subject I know--and I've read widely in my search for insight and inspiration. I've struck gold! Even though I'm many years past training (I'm a PGY21), this book brought me back to a sense of freshness and excitement about testing and clinical work which I believe you will find too.
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  • Amazon Customer
    5.0 out of 5 stars Exceptional Book for Seasoned & Early-Career Psychologists
    Reviewed in the United States on June 6, 2017
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    This is an exceptional book for seasoned and early-career psychologists alike. The history of psychological testing is honored at the same time that contemporary theory, research, and psychological measures are integrated with historical traditions. Especially pertinent are sections addressing the way that test results can guide and inform treatment.
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  • Kim
    5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent resource
    Reviewed in the United States on August 16, 2018
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    This book is thoughtful, practical, and well written. It will help you translate results of testing into useful recommendations.
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  • Amazon Customer
    5.0 out of 5 stars GREAT TESTING TEXTBOOK!
    Reviewed in the United States on November 16, 2015
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    Highly excellent, with respect to theory and practice, both for the graduate student and long-time practitioner.
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  • Amazon Customer
    5.0 out of 5 stars very good book
    Reviewed in the United States on August 23, 2016
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    well done and very good information.
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  • Casey
    5.0 out of 5 stars This Book Matters
    Reviewed in the United States on January 25, 2016
    “Psychological Testing That Matters” is a one of a kind text that keeps its promise to create a road map for effective treatment. As a clinical psychology doctoral student interested in assessment I wish I had a text like it earlier on in my training. Dr. Bram and Dr. Peebles write in a way that is accessible for mid to upper levels of training, and really create an effective frame for psychological testing.

    The book begins with generally laying out a description of testing that is treatment-centered in order to ground our clinical work in interventions that are tailored to our patient’s. Their approach is one that emerged in Menninger’s psychology postdoctoral training program in Topeka, Kansas and continued until the early 2000’s. Basic questions that clinician’s might ask about their patients are unpacked to reflect refined referral questions, emerging hypotheses, and thoughtful construction of an assessment battery. A person and treatment-centered method for constructing a battery that yields informative and therapeutic diagnosis considerations provides the “red thread” for the text, and there is a profound emphasis on treating data as never “either-or,” but “when.” The book outlines the key psychological capacities that one would consider in treatment planning and how to organize data into each domain in a way that makes inference-making streamlined, but holistic.

    However, this is the more general picture. There are a number of things that make this text useful for orienting one to meaningful assessment that as a student, I found beyond valuable:

    1) How to manage and think of collaborating with the referral source and the patient is highlighted.

    2) How to be flexible with a battery rather than taking a one-size fits all approach is detailed, especially how to think about testing under different conditions such as high structure and low ambiguity versus low structure and high ambiguity. No one ever discussed testing with me in this way before and I feel that I have a better verbal and conceptual grasp on my batteries from this frame.

    3) The book details what you can glean from the standard battery in detail (Wechsler, TAT, Rorschach) going into testing the limits and feedback.

    4) There are case examples and a sample report in order to help organize the concepts detailed into a meaningful whole. Personally, case examples are how I feel I learn the best.

    I’m pretty sure you can tell I’m a big fan of this book and feel strongly that it should be integrated into all programs where assessment is a focus. However, one of the few drawbacks is that the new Rorschach Performance Assessment System was published at the time the books was being written and though the authors did try to make reference to it when possible, much of the language is CS dominant. Though I happen to be versed in both systems, I worried this might make some of the text inaccessible. Nevertheless, when I passed it on to a peer who only trained in the newest system, she shared with me that she still found it easy to read and way more useful than anything else we have utilized up until this point.

    All in all, I would highly recommend, and a solid 5 stars goes to Psychological Testing That Matters.
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  • The Reluctant Psychoanalyst
    5.0 out of 5 stars Students across the theorretical spectrum find this text accessible and useful
    Reviewed in the United States on August 29, 2014
    As a Menninger graduate, I was concerned about how my PsyD students at a Midwestern University would cotton to this book. Our program has an eclectic approach to theoretical orientation - though most of the students gravitate initially to a cognitive behavioral perspective as they look for guidance. This book, which has a psychoanalytic foundation but is, as the authors state, intended for use by clinicians of all perspectives, was something that I very much wanted to try with them.

    I have been relieved to find that the students (who didn't like reading Freud in personality theories class) have really liked the underlying premises of the text - that psychological reports should be about people; that they should be focused not on people as static objects, but how they are in motion; and that we should be writing about what we can do to help people move towards treatment goals. The students have found the style of writing approachable and the examples useful. We aren't yet done with the text - we are using it as a secondary text in the Rorschach class and then they will be able to use it in the integrative test writing course that is next in the sequence - if I can edit this later I will - but the initial report is very positive. The students really like this book.
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  • Spencer E. Biel
    5.0 out of 5 stars A mindset, in addition to a practice
    Reviewed in the United States on September 15, 2015
    I had the pleasure of convening a panel with the authors at a recent conference. In preparation, I read the book, and I asked a colleague
    like me, is involved in training predoctoral interns/postdoctoral fellows in psychological assessment, particularly from a psychodynamic perspective, if he'd read it. He's using it in his teaching, as am I. It is very well-written and provides a systematic way of evaluating test data and making integrative inferences that are also theoretically informed, something that so often is lacking or left to the secondary (or tertiary) level of analysis these days. I think it's worth a look if you're interested in thinking about/doing/teaching assessment from that perspective. At the conference, MaryJo [Peebles] described it as the "[Topeka] Menninger Post doc in a bottle." She and Tony [Bram] are very much hoping that it'll pass down a mindset in addition to a practice.
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  • Kevin
    4.0 out of 5 stars Enjoyable addition
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 28, 2018
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    A good Book for Advanced students and practitioners, strong emphasis on Rorschach
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