Quickly acquire the knowledge and skills you need to confidently administer, score, and interpret a variety of storytelling techniques Storytelling techniques are a popular projective approach for assessing many aspects of a person's personality, such as cognitive processes, emotional functioning, and self-regulation. The broad spectrum of techniques includes the Thematic Apperception Test (TAT the most widely embraced), Roberts-2, and TEMAS (Tell-Me-A-Story). To use these tests properly, professionals need an authoritative source of advice and guidance on how to administer, score, and interpret them. Written by Hedwig Teglasi, a leading researcher of the TAT and other storytelling techniques, Essentials of TAT and Other Storytelling Assessments, Second Edition is that source. Like all the volumes in the Essentials of Psychological Assessment series, this book is designed to help busy mental health professionals, and those in training, quickly acquire the knowledge and skills they need to make optimal use of major psychological assessment instruments. Each concise chapter features numerous callout boxes highlighting key concepts, bulleted points, and extensive illustrative material, as well as test questions that help you gauge and reinforce your grasp of the information covered. Fully revised and updated to reflect the current research supporting storytelling techniques, Essentials of TAT and Other Storytelling Assessments, Second Edition reflects the latest data and theory on scoring stories and includes new material on interpreting stories in reference to a person's abilities in cognition, emotion, relationships, motivation, and self-regulation. As well, the author provides expert assessment of the methods' relative strengths and weaknesses, valuable advice on their clinical applications, and several case studies to illustrate best practices for implementing the storytelling approach to personality assessment. Other titles in the Essentials of Psychological Assessment series: Essentials of Assessment Report Writing Essentials of PAI Assessment Essentials of 16PF Assessment Essentials of Neuropsychological Assessment, Second Edition Essentials of MillonTM Inventories Assessment, Third Edition Essentials of Rorschach Assessment Essentials of MMPI-2 Assessment Essentials of MMPI-A Assessment

Quickly acquire the knowledge and skills you need to confidentlyadminister, score, and interpret a variety of storytellingtechniquesStorytelling techniques are a popular projective approach forassessing many aspects of a person's personality, such as cognitiveprocesses, emotional functioning, and self-regulation. The broadspectrum of techniques includes the Thematic Apperception Test(TAT--the most widely embraced), Roberts-2, and TEMAS(Tell-Me-A-Story). To use these tests properly, professionals needan authoritative source of advice and guidance on how toadminister, score, and interpret them. Written by Hedwig Teglasi, aleading researcher of the TAT and other storytelling techniquesEssentials of TAT and Other Storytelling Assessments, SecondEdition is that source.Like all the volumes in the Essentials of PsychologicalAssessment series, this book is designed to help busy mentalhealth professionals, and those in training, quickly acquire theknowledge and skills they need to make optimal use of majorpsychological assessment instruments. Each concise chapter featuresnumerous callout boxes highlighting key concepts, bulleted pointsand extensive illustrative material, as well as test questions thathelp you gauge and reinforce your grasp of the informationcovered.Fully revised and updated to reflect the current researchsupporting storytelling techniques, Essentials of TAT and OtherStorytelling Assessments, Second Edition reflects thelatest data and theory on scoring stories and includes new materialon interpreting stories in reference to a person's abilities incognition, emotion, relationships, motivation, and self-regulation.As well, the author provides expert assessment of the methods'relative strengths and weaknesses, valuable advice on theirclinical applications, and several case studies to illustrate bestpractices for implementing the storytelling approach to personalityassessment.Other titles in the Essentials of PsychologicalAssessment series:* Essentials of Assessment Report Writing* Essentials of PAI Assessment* Essentials of 16PF Assessment* Essentials of Neuropsychological Assessment, Second Edition* Essentials of MillonTM Inventories Assessment, Third Edition* Essentials of Rorschach Assessment* Essentials of MMPI-2 Assessment* Essentials of MMPI-A Assessment

Series Preface xiAcknowledgments xiiiOne: Overview 1Two: Essentials of Storytelling Administration 29Three: Essentials of Storytelling Interpretation 49Four: Essentials of TAT Assessment of Cognition 74Five: Essentials of TAT Assessment of Emotion 137Six: Essentials of TAT Assessment of Object Relations 183Seven: Essentials of TAT Assessment of Motivation and Self-Regulation 218Eight: Essentials of the Children's Apperception Test and Other Storytelling Methods for Children 262Nine: Strengths and Weaknesses of Storytelling Assessment Techniques 300Ten: Storytelling in the Assessment Battery 316References 348Annotated Bibliography 376Index 378About the Author 386