Integrative Assessment of Adult Personality

497 Pages·2011·6.98 MB·English

by  Gary Groth-Marnat, T. Mark Harwood, Larry E. Beutler

IntegratIve assessment
of adult PersonalIty
Integrative assessment
of adult Personality
Third EdiTion
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T. Mark Harwood
Larry E. Beutler
Gary Groth-Marnat
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Harwood, T. Mark.
Integrative assessment of adult personality / T. Mark Harwood, Larry E. Beutler,
Gary Groth-Marnat. — 3rd ed.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-60918-650-0 (hardcover: alk. paper)
1. Personality assessment. 2. Personality tests. 3. Adulthood—Psychological aspects.
I. Beutler, Larry E. II. Groth-Marnat, Gary.
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To Violet “Charlie” Harwood and Janet and Mimi Goodridge
—TMH
To the hundreds of patients and students
who endured my ever-changing views of how people work,
and to those relatively few who really showed me the way to understanding
—LEB
To my father, Rudy Groth-Marnat
—GG-M
about the authors
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t. mark Harwood, Phd, is the former Director of Clinical Training and Core Faculty in
Wheaton College’s Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology. He has had extensive expe-
rience as a clinician, investigator, faculty member, and administrator, and has published
widely in professional journals and textbooks, with a primary focus on psychotherapy
outcome research. Dr. Harwood served for 5 years as Managing Associate Editor of the
Journal of Clinical Psychology—the fagship journal in the feld—and is on the journal’s
editorial board as well as the editorial boards of several other scientifc journals. He is
currently in private practice in St. Charles, Illinois, and specializes in the treatment of
depression, anxiety, substance abuse disorders, couple/marital issues, adolescent issues,
geropsychology, and emotional and physical intimacy/sexual disorders.
larry e. Beutler, Phd, is the William McInnes Distinguished Professor and former Chair
of the PhD Programs at Palo Alto University’s Pacifc Graduate School of Psychology. He
is also Consulting Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University
School of Medicine. Dr. Beutler is the past Editor of the Journal of Clinical Psychology and
the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology. He is a Fellow of the American Psycho-
logical Association (APA) and the American Psychological Society, Past President of the
Society for Clinical Psychology (Division 12 of APA), Past President of the Division of Psy-
chotherapy (Division 29 of the APA), and two-term Past President of the (International)
Society for Psychotherapy Research. He is the author of 23 books and over 400 scholarly
papers and chapters.
gary groth-marnat, Phd, aBPP, aBaP, is Professor of Clinical Psychology at Pacifca
Graduate Institute and a licensed psychologist in private practice in Santa Barbara, Cali-
fornia. He is the author of 150 chapters/journal articles and four books, including fve
editions of the Handbook of Psychological Assessment. He is also a Fellow of the American
Psychological Association (Division 12), Fellow of the Society for Personality Assessment,
Diplomate of the American Board of Professional Psychology, Diplomate of the American
Board of Assessment Psychology, and recipient of numerous awards. Dr. Groth-Marnat is
currently working on a book and associated bundled software program designed to assist
report writers in writing integrated, focused, user-friendly psychological reports.
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Contributing authors
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robert P. archer, Phd, aBaP, aBPP, is the Frank Harrell Redwood Distinguished Professor of
Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk, Virginia. Dr.
Archer is coauthor of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory—Adolescent (MMPI-A)
and founding editor of the quarterly journal Assessment. He is a Past President of Section IX of
Division 12 (Assessment) of the American Psychological Association (APA), a Diplomate of the
American Board of Professional Psychology in clinical psychology, and a Fellow of APA Divisions
5 and 12. Dr. Archer is currently working with the University of Minnesota Press to explore the
viability of developing a restructured form of the MMPI-A (i.e., MMPI-A-RF).
audrey l. austin, mPH, is a doctoral student in Clinical Psychology at the University of Alabama.
Currently, she is combining her interests in psychology and public health through the health psy-
chology concentration of her doctoral program. Her research and clinical interests include health
disparities, behavioral adherence to health recommendations, and healthy aging.
elizabeth J. austin, Phd, is Reader in Psychology at the University of Edinburgh. Her research
on emotional intelligence (EI) and related topics includes the development of ability EI mea-
sures; associations of EI with academic performance, stress, and health; and the development
of measures of emotional manipulation. She also has a wide range of other research interests in
personality/individual differences, for example, personality correlates of the broad autism phe-
notype, personality and decision making, and determinants of academic success in students. Dr.
Austin is an associate editor of Personality and Individual Differences and British Journal of Psychology
and a member of the Board of Directors of the International Society for the Study of Individual
Differences.
Kathy Blau, ms, is a doctoral student in Clinical Psychology at Pacifc Graduate School of Psychol-
ogy in Palo Alto, California. Her research combines interests in clinical and social psychology.
Bruce Bongar, Phd, is the Calvin Professor of Psychology at the Pacifc Graduate School of Psy-
chology (PGSP), Palo Alto University, and Consulting Professor in the Department of Psychia-
try and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University School of Medicine. He also has served as a
Visiting Distinguished Professor of National Security Affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School
in Monterey. From 2002 to 2005, he was the Founding Director of the National Center on the
Psychology of Terrorism. Dr. Bongar was also the founding Co-Chair and Co-Director of Clini-
cal Training for the joint Doctor of Psychology program between PGSP and Stanford University
School of Medicine. He is Past President of the Section on Clinical Emergencies and Crises of
Division 12 (Clinical Psychology) of the American Psychological Association. He is the recipient
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of numerous national awards for his work on suicide and life-threatening behaviors, has written
over 100 book chapters/journal articles, and is the author or editor of 12 books, including The
Suicidal Patient: Clinical and Legal Standards of Care, and The Psychology of Terrorism.
gregory J. Boyle, dsc, is Professor of Psychology at Bond University, Queensland, Australia. He
has spent over three decades conducting quantitative research in the feld of psychometrics, as
related to the measurement of individual differences in personality, intelligence, and motivation,
as well as conducting studies in the felds of neuropsychology, clinical health psychology, and
educational psychology. He has published more than 200 scientifc articles, 21 book chapters, and
7 books, as well as contributed numerous psychological test reviews and organizational/military
psychology reports. In 2004, Dr. Boyle was elected a Fellow of both the Australian Psychological
Society and the American Psychological Society (now Association for Psychological Science); in
2005, he was honored with the prestigious Distinguished Reviewer Award from the Buros Institute
of Mental Measurements; and in 2006, his contributions to expanding the knowledge base in the
feld of psychology were acknowledged by the University of Queensland with conferral of its pres-
tigious higher Doctor of Science (DSc) degree.
Keith Burke, Ba, is a doctoral student in Clinical Psychology at Pacifca Graduate Institute in
Carpinteria, California. He currently works as a mental health clinician at St. Vincent de Paul
Village, a residential treatment facility for the homeless in San Diego, California. His research
interests include psychological and personality assessment, psychopathology, co-occurring disor-
ders, and affective neuroscience.
James n. Butcher, Phd, is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Psychology at the University
of Minnesota. Dr. Butcher steered the University of Minnesota Press’s restandardization of the
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory. He is a past Editor of Psychological Assessment and
serves on the editorial boards of many major journals in the area of assessment and psychopathol-
ogy. He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and of the Society for Personality
Assessment.
James Choca, Phd, is Chair of the Department of Psychology at Roosevelt University, where he
directed the clinical PsyD program for several years. Clinically, Dr. Choca works with both neu-
ropsychology patients and individuals in need of emotional evaluations. His research has focused
on the Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory and the Halstead Category Test. His interests also
include the evaluations of Hispanics and the Rorschach Inkblot Test.
martha r. Crowther, Phd, mPH, is Associate Professor of Psychology and Director of the Clini-
cal Psychology Program at the University of Alabama (UA). Trained as a clinical psychologist,
Dr. Crowther also has an MPH focused on chronic disease epidemiology. She is a faculty scholar
in the UA Center for Mental Health and Aging, an Investigator in the Institute for Rural Health
Research, and a Scientist in the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Center for Aging.
She has extensive experience in the feld of health disparities in older adults and African Ameri-
cans; assessment of caregiving-related stressors and outcomes; the relation between religion,
spirituality, and health in older adults; and mental health and aging. She has broad expertise
in behavioral health, family- and community-based research, community-based clinical research
recruitment and retention strategies, and interdisciplinary interventions in African American
and rural communities. Dr. Crowther has been the recipient of federal and foundation funding.
She has also published journal articles and book chapters on mental health and aging, interdisci-
plinary health care in rural communities, and cultural diversity in research training.
ari davis, Ba, is a doctoral student in Clinical Psychology at Pacifca Graduate Institute in Carpin-
teria, California. His research interests include the development of teaching strategies for psycho-
logical report writing; integration of Eastern principles of meditation and spiritual knowledge
Contributing Authors ix
into psychoanalytic psychotherapy; the study of how narcissistic wounds and borderline states
may underlie the multiplicity of disorders catalogued as psychopathology; and the prediction of
psychosomatic and psychoneuroimmunological problems based on perinatal trauma and- distur
bances of attachment.
thomas dunn, Phd, is Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Northern Colorado.
His research interests include psychological assessment, malingering, posttraumatic stre-ss disor
der, and factors infuencing performance of those working in the emergency services.
sean Harrell, Bs, is a doctoral student in Clinical Psychology at Wheaton College. Currently, he
is working as a teaching assistant in the Wheaton College Graduate Psychology Department and
as a psychological assessment extern at Centennial Counseling Center.
r. sean Hogan, Phd, is a licensed psychologist in private practice in Del Mar, California, and
an adjunct faculty member at the California School of Professional Psychology at Allia-nt Inter
national University in San Diego. He received his initial graduate training in the use of -the Min
nesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory in therapeutic feedback at the University of Missouri,
Columbia. Dr. Hogan has an extensive clinical and assessment background that includes decades
of experience in jails, hospitals, and residential treatment centers. He has also become one of the
leading consultants for the reality television industry, in which he provides therapeutic support
and assessment services for the purpose of screening cast members worldwide.
lisa Joseph, Phd, received her PhD in Clinical Psychology from Pacifc Graduate School -of Psy
chology, where she did research on children and adolescent survivors of Hurricane Katrina. She
completed a clinical research postdoctoral fellowship at Brown University, working with children
with developmental disabilities. During that fellowship, she also worked on a qualitative research
study that examined the perspectives of siblings of children with developmental disabiliti-es receiv
ing home-based therapeutic services. In 2008, Dr. Joseph joined the Pediatric and Developmental
Neuroscience Branch at the National Institute of Mental Health, where she currently is r-esearch
ing repetitive behavior in children with autism.
sarah l. Kelly,m a, is a graduate student at Wheaton College, pursuing her doctorate in- Clini
cal PsychologyH. er research interests include trauma, coping, resiliency, peer victimization, self-
help, and cross-cultural populations.
radhika Krishnamurthy, Pdsy, aBaP, is Professor of Clinical Psychology at the Florida Institute
of Technology in Melbourne, Florida. She is the 2011–2013 President of the Society for P-ersonal
ity Assessment and coauthor, with Dr. Robert P. ArcherE, ssoefn tials of MMPI-A Assessment a nd
MMPI-A Casebook, and several articles and book chapters on the MMPI-A/MMPI-2, PAI-A, and
Rorschach. She has presented numerous assessment-related papers and symposia at the Society
for Personality Assessment annual meetings, the International Congress of Rorschach and Projec-
tive Methods, and American Psychological Association (APA) conventions. Dr. Krishnamurthy
was 2008 President of Section IX, Assessment, of APA Division 12. She currently serves as Associ-
ate Editor of the Journal of Personality Assessment and Consulting Editor of Assessment and Psychologi-
cal Assessment. She is a Fellow of the Society of Personality Assessment and the APA, Diplomate of
the American Board of Professional Psychology, and past recipient of the Samuel J. and Anne G.
Beck Award for outstanding early career research in personality assessment.
steven Kvaal, Phd, is Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at Roosevelt University
in Chicago. He also maintains a clinical practice in clinical and health psychology at Swedish Cov-
enant Hospital, also in Chicago. Dr. Kvaal’s teaching, research, and clinical work focus on health
and clinical psychology. He teaches courses in psychopathology, personality, psychopharmacol-
ogy, and health psychology.