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In this comprehensive volume, the second in the Oxford Textbooks in Clinical Psychology series, over 50 eminent contributors from a diverse range of psychological disciplines address fundamental issues in personality assessment. The contributors, whose approaches cover the theoreticaldiversity of the field, were invited to address an important problem area in personality assessment and write their chapters with a practical orientation. The resulting work merges outstanding variety and depth of coverage with a useful, hands-on focus. It will be considered a definitive referencein the field of assessment, appealing to practicing clinical psychologists as well as researchers.
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In this volume, over 50 eminent contributors from a diverse range of psychological disciplines address central issues in personality assessment. The authors were invited to select a key problem area in the field and to emphasize practical issues in their chapters. The result is a work of outstanding variety and depth of coverage with an immediately useful, hands-on focus. Topics include ethical considerations in clinical personality assessment, assessment of racial and ethnic minorities, and assessment of the elderly, among many other key topics. A practical, context-based approach is maintained throughout, and a useful Appendix providing an index of psychological assessment procedures concludes the book. It will be considered a definitive text for the field of assessment, appealing to both students and practicing clinical psychologists.
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