This comprehensive, balanced guide to personality assessment, written by two of the foremost experts in the field, is sure to become the gold standard of texts on this topic. The Handbook of Personality Assessment covers everything from the basics, including a historic overview and detailed discussion of the assessment process and its psychometric foundations, to valuable sections on conducting the assessment interview and the nature, interpretation, and applications of the most popular self-report (objective) and performance-based (projective) measures. A concluding section of special topics such as computerized assessment, ethical and legal issues, and report writing are unique to this text.

Preface.I. Basic Considerations.1. History of personality assessment.Early Events.Emergence of Personality Psychology.World War II and the Expansion of Clinical Psychology.Trends Over Time: Shrinkage and Growth.Concluding Comments.2. The personality assessment process.Purposes of Personality Assessment.Preparing for Personality Assessments.Conducting Personality Assessments.Interpreting Personality Assessment Data.Reporting Personality Assessment Findings.3. Psychometric Foundations Of Assessment.Reliability.Validity.Clinical Decision Making.Impediments to Accurate Decisions.Concluding Comment.4. Ethical considerations in personality assessment.Student Disclosure of Personal Information.Bases for Assessments.Use of Assessments.Informed Consent in Assessments.Release of Test Data.Interpreting Assessment Results.Assessment by Unqualified Persons.Obsolete Tests and Outdated Test Results.Test Scoring and Interpretation Services.Explaining Assessment Results.Maintaining Test Security.Training Students in Psychological Assessment.Diversity.II. Self-Report Inventories.5. Overview of self-report inventories.Nature of Self-Report Instruments.Item Characteristics.Methods of Scale Development.Administration and Scoring.Standardization Group.Validity Assessment.Interpretive Process.6. Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory.History.Administration.Scoring.Assessing Validity.Interpretation.Applications.Psychometric Foundations.7. Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-A.History.Administration.Scoring.Assessing Validity.Interpretation.Applications.Psychometric Foundations.8. Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory-III.History.Administration.Scoring.Assessing Validity.Interpretation.Applications.Psychometric Foundations.9. Personality Assessment Inventory.History.Administration.Scoring.Assessing Validity.Interpretation.Applications.Psychometric Foundations.10. NEO Personality Inventory-Revised.History.Administration.Scoring.Assessing Validity.Interpretation.Applications.Psychometric Foundations.III. Performance-Based Measures.11. Rorschach Inkblot Method.Nature of the Rorschach Inkblot Method.History.Administration.Coding and Scoring.Interpretation: Structural Variables.Interpretation--Thematic Variables.Interpretation--Card Pull.Applications.Psychometric Foundations.12. Thematic Apperception Test.Nature of the Thematic Apperception Test.History.Administration.Coding.Interpretation: Card Pull.Interpretation: Story Meaning.Applications.Psychometric Foundations.13. Figure drawing methods.Nature and History of Figure Drawing Methods.Administration and Scoring.Interpretation.Applications.Psychometric Foundations.14. Sentence completion methods.Nature of Sentence Completion Methods.History.Administration.Scoring.Interpretation.Applications.Psychometric Foundations.Appendix. Computer Generated Interpretive Reports.Author Index.Subject Index.