Part One: Genetic and Cultural Perspectives
1. Clinical and Personality Assessment: History, Evolution, Contemporary Models, and Practical Applications
James N. Butcher
2. Behavior Genetic Perspectives on Clinical Personality Assessment
Susan C. South, Robert F. Krueger, and Kristian E. Markon
3. The Cultural Perspective in Personality Assessment
Fanny M. Cheung
Part Two: Methodological and Conceptual Factors and Psychometric Considerations
4. Test Theory and Personality Measurement
Fritz Drasgo, Oleksandr S. Chernyshenko, and Stephen Stark
5. Construct Validation of Personality Measures
Gregory T. Smith and Tamika C. B. Zapolski
6. Standards and Standardization
Kurt F. Geisinger and Janet F. Carlson
7. Changing or Replacing an Established Personality Assessment Standard: Issues, Goals, and Problems, with Special Reference to Recent Developments in the MMPI-2
Michelle Boisvert Ranson, David S. Nichols, Steven V. Rouse, and Jennifer Harrington
8. Incorporating Base Rate Information in Daily Clinical Decision Making
Stephen E. Finn
9. Theory and Measurement of Personality Traits
Allan R. Harkness
10. Computer-Based Interpretation of Personality Scales
James N. Butcher, Julia N. Perry, and Brooke L. Dean
Part Three: Personality Assessment Procedures and Instruments
11. Behavioral Observation
Martin Leichtman
12. The Clinical Interview
Robert Craig
13. Clinical Behavioral Assessment: Identifying and Explaining Behavior Problems in Clinical Assessment
Stephen N. Haynes, Dawn T. Yoshioka, Karen Kloezeman, and Iruma Bello
14. The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI-2): History, Interpretation, and Clinical Issues
Andrew C. Cox, Nathan Weed, and James N. Butcher
15. Personality Assessment with the Rorschach Method
Irving B. Weiner and Gregory J. Meyer
16. The Five-Factor Model and the NEO Inventories
Paul Costa and Robert R. McCrae
17. The California Psychological Inventory
Edward I. Megargee
18. Assessing Personality Disorders
Thomas A. Widiger and Sara E. Boyd
19. Functional Imaging in Clinical Assessment? The Rise of Neurodiagnostics with the FMRI
Angus W. McDonald, III, and Jessica A. Hurdelbrink
Part Four: Specific Populations
20. Clinical Personality Assessment with Asian Americans
Sumie Okazaki, Mimi Okazaki, and Stanley Sue
21. The Assessment of Psychopathology in Racial and Ethnic Minorities
Bernadette Gray-Little
22. Issues in Clinical Assessment with Women
Judith Worell and Damon Ann Robinson
23. Use of the MMPI-2 in Neuropsychological Assessment
Carlton S. Gass
24. Assessing Couples
Douglas K. Snyder, Richard E. Heyman, and Stephen S. Haynes
25. Assessing Adolescents with the MMPI-A
Edward J. Cumella and Jennifer Lafferty O'Connor
Part Five: Specific Settings and Problems
26. Assessment of Suicide Risk
Ronald A. Stolberg and Bruce Bongar
27. Use of Self-Report Measures in Assessing Alcohol and Drug Abuse
Joseph A. Banken and Roger L. Greene
28. Understanding and Assessing Aggression and Violence
Edwin I. Megargee
29. Assessing Antisocial and Psychopathic Personalities
Carl B. Gacono and J. Reid Meloy
30. Clinical Personality Assessment in the Employment Context
James N. Butcher, Donald K. Gucker, and Lowell W. Hellervik
31. Anticipating Legal and Ethical Challenges in Personality Assessment
Irving B. Weiner Part Six: Interpretation and Reporting of Assessment Findings
32. Assessment of Feigned Psychological Symptoms
David T. R. Berry, Myriam J. Sollman, Lindsey J. Schipper, Jessica A. Clark, and Anne L. Shandera
33. Assessment of Clients in Pretreatment Planning
T. Mark Harwood and Larry E. Beutler
34. Assessment of Treatment Resistance via Questionnaire
Julia N. Perry
35. Clinical Report Writing
Raymond L. Ownby
36. How to Use Computer-Based Reports
James N. Butcher
37. Overview and Future Directions
James N. Butcher