Using the Rorschach Performance Assessment System®

434 Pages·2017·37.079 MB·English

by  Joni L. Mihura, Gregory J. Meyer

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THE GUILFORD PRESS
Using the Rorschach Performance Assessment System®
(R- PAS®)

Using the
Rorschach Performance
Assessment System®
(R-PAS®)
Edited by
Joni L. Mihura
Gregory J. Meyer
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About the Editors
Joni L. Mihura, PhD, is Professor of Psychology at the University of Toledo, where she
teaches personality assessment, advanced assessment, and psychodynamic/ integrative
psychotherapy. She received early career awards from the American Psychoanalytic
Association and the Society for Personality Assessment (SPA), as well as the Walter
G. Klopfer Award for Distinguished Contribution to the Literature from SPA, and is
a Fellow and past board member of SPA. Dr. Mihura serves on the editorial boards
of the Journal of Personality Assessment and Rorschachi ana, has published many
articles and chapters on psychological assessment, and is c oeditor of the Handbook
of Gender and Sexuality in Psychological Assessment. She is a codeveloper of R- PAS
(www.r-p as.org) and presents invited lectures and trainings internationally.
Gregory J. Meyer, PhD, is Professor of Psychology at the University of Toledo. His
research focuses on psychological assessment, with an emphasis on the integration
of assessment methods. He is a four- time recipient of the Walter G. Klopfer Award
for Distinguished Contribution to the Literature from SPA. Dr. Meyer also received
the Award for Distinguished Contributions to Assessment Psychology from Section
IX (Assessment Psychology) of the Society of Clinical Psychology, Division 12 of the
American Psychological Association (APA), and is a Fellow of Division 5 (Quantita-
tive and Qualitative Methods) of APA, as well as of SPA. With more than 75 peer-
reviewed publications, he is a past editor of the Journal of Personality Assessment.
He is a codeveloper of R- PAS and presents invited lectures and trainings internation-
ally.
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Contributors
Marvin W. Acklin, PhD, ABAP, ABPP, Department of Psychiatry,
John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii
Filippo Aschieri, PhD, European Center for Therapeutic Assessment,
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy
Ety Berant, PhD, Baruch Ivcher School of Psychology, Interdisciplinary Center,
Herzliya, Israel
Cassandra Berbary, PhD, College of Health Sciences and Technology,
Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York
Anthony Bram, PhD, ABAP, Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute,
Newton Centre, Massachusetts; Cambridge Health Alliance/Harvard Medical School,
Cambridge, Massachusetts; and private practice, Lexington, Massachusetts
Alessandra Chinaglia, MS, Department of Psychology, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore,
Milan, Italy
Hilde De Saeger, MA, De Viersprong, Halsteren, The Netherlands
Nicolae Dumitrascu, PhD, Danielsen Institute at Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts
Philip Erdberg, PhD, ABPP, Department of Psychiatry, University of California
San Francisco School of Medicine, Greenbrae, California, and private practice,
Corte Madera, California
Jack Fahy, PhD, Masonic Center for Youth and Families, San Francisco, California
Francesca Fantini, PhD, European Center for Therapeutic Assessment and EDUCatt
(Ente per il Diritto allo studio dell’Università Cattolica), Università Cattolica
del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy
Ellen J. Hartmann, CandPsychol, Department of Psychology, University of Oslo,
Oslo, Norway
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Tammy L. Hughes, PhD, Department of Counseling, Psychology, and Special Education,
Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Saara Kaakinen, MA, Department of Psychiatry, Unit of Forensic Psychiatry,
Oulu University Hospital, Oulu, Finland
Jan H. Kamphuis, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of Amsterdam,
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Nancy Kaser- Boyd, PhD, ABAP, Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences,
Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles,
and Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, Los Angeles, California
Philip Keddy, PhD, private practice, Oakland, California, and Wright Institute,
Berkeley, California
Reneau Kennedy, EdD, Clinical and Forensic Psychology, Honolulu, Hawaii
Ali Khadivi, PhD, Department of Psychiatry, Bronx Lebanon Hospital Center,
and Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Albert Einstein College of Medicine,
Bronx, New York
Andrea B. Kiss, MS, Department of Psychology, University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio
James H. Kleiger, PsyD, ABPP, ABAP, private practice, Bethesda, Maryland
S. Margaret Lee, PhD, private practice, Mill Valley, California
Jessica Lipkind, PsyD, WestCoast Children’s Clinic, and private practice,
Oakland, California
Gregory J. Meyer, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio
Joni L. Mihura, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio
Emiliano Muzio, PhD, private practice, Helsinki, Finland
Peder Chr. B. Nørbech, MS, CandPsychol, Department of Psychology, University of Oslo,
Oslo, Norway
Kate Piselli, PhD, Department of Counseling, Psychology, and Special Education,
Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Hannu Säävälä, MD, PhD, Department of Psychiatry, Unit of Forensic Psychiatry,
Oulu University Hospital, Oulu, Finland
Justin D. Smith, PhD, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences,
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois