Reviews (5)

Disappointing, again and again...
I am a clinical psychology graduate student, and every time I turn to this book for help related to interpretation--what a part of the test means or can tell us about a person--I am sorely disappointed.It is terribly psychometric and formal, giving facts about the test but few clues for what to do with it; even something as simple as a useful description of one of the index scores is lacking.There are reference tables included, but I have found even those more difficult to locate when I need them than seems necessary.Frustrating...

Clear and user-friendly yet sophisticated
This is a gem of a book. I assigned it for the grad students in my intellectual assessment course and both they and I found it to be very helpful and easy to use. The format of the book makes it very user-friendly and unintimidating. There are a lot of boxes and highlighted text that help the reader to find what he or she is looking for quickly. This book covers administration, scoring, and interpretation and provides numerous helpful tips for beginners on common errors. The approach to interpretation provided in this book is a pared-down and slightly modified version of the method described in Kaufman's book Intelligent Testing with the WISC-III (an excellent book with a great deal of information on interpreting the WISC-III). Kaufman and Lichtenberger take the guess work and estimation out of interpreting the significance of various scores. This approach is based in the scientific method (assume nonsignificance unless you have a compelling reason, based on the test data, to believe that the variations in scores on the test protocol are unlikely to have resulted by chance). This approach is very helpful in giving students an understanding of how much variation in test scores can result from test error, and brings the "science" back into test interpretation. There are a lot of numbers to crunch using this method, and in some ways the clarity of the system can encourage users to become mechanistic, but I feel that the emphasis on systematic and defensible interpretation is well worth this risk. Kaufman's approach has become the basis of the standard described in the WAIS manual and calculated on the WAIS-III record form, and this book is an excellent way to learn it and the rationale behind it. The book is also an excellent reference for practitioners. I find myself pulling it off my shelf very frequently as I supervise student assessments, and it's loaned out to various students a lot of the time. The book provides pages of useful tables, some of which are in the WAIS-III manual, but many of which are not. One caution is that the shared abilities tables provided here are based on theory rather than data, so it's important to take these with a grain of salt. Also there are a couple of points in the "decision tree" where it's not entirely clear in some situations what the reader is to do. This is not a common problem, but one that is not really adequately addressed in my opinion. A must have!
I am a graduate student in psychology and this is the clearest text I have ever read that describes the interpretive process of IQ tests! Look for their new book for WISC interpretation as well! ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Assessment, Testing & Measurement    2. Clinical Psychology    3. Intelligence Testing    4. Intelligence tests    5. Psychology    6. Wechsler Adult Intelligence Sc    7. Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale    8. Intelligence    9. Psychological testing & measurement    10. Psychology & Psychiatry / Clinical Psychology   

Editorial Review

The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator temperament test is given annually to millions of people, mainly business students and job applicants. But what good does it do, short of giving you a catchy-sounding, four-letter abbreviation (ENTJ, ISFP) that you can sometimes use to break the ice at cocktail parties? The aim of this book is to help you apply your knowledge to the benefit of both your work and love life--and to teach you how to prevent personality clashes by slightly adjusting your behavior around others, once you ascertain which "type" they fall under.Read more

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Excellent and fun introduction to Myers-Brigg Types
This short and fun book is a wonderful introduction to the Myers-Brigg types.It is written in an easy to understand, humorous style and is meant to be as entertaining as it is educational.If you want to know the basics and have a good laugh this short book will not disappoint you.It is also well-organized and contains quite a few great cartoons.

what type am I
Very good and interesting read.I recommend for anyone interested in personality types and corresponding behavior.

Are you a ENTP or a INSJ?
Been wanting to know more about your personality from a psychological point of view? get this book and answer the simple questions about your personality and find out.
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Subjects:  1. General    2. Myers-Briggs Type Indicator    3. Personality    4. Personality Assessment And Testing    5. Psychology    6. Temperament    7. Typology (Psychology)    8. Popular psychology    9. Psychology & Psychiatry / Testing & Measurement   

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Discovering Your Personality Type
The book is a quick read and easy to understand.The insights are mostly good and the system an interesting one.Take the test and see how accurate you think it is.It does provide a tool for understanding your own and others behavior.

Great Book
If you have read Personality Types then this book is even better. It actually shows you who you are by a series of questions. I remember because it showed me I was wrong about my own self (after just reading Personality Types)! So, needless to say, this book along with Personality Types is all you will ever need to learn to about psychology. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Enneagram    2. Personal Growth - General    3. Personality    4. Psychological Testing    5. Psychology    6. Riso Enneagram Type Indicator    7. Self-Help    8. Psychology & Psychiatry / General   

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Thorough information on tests and assessments
I am the director of secondary school student teachers at Lindenwood University in St. Charles, Missouri. I have found this text to give very comprehensive and practical information about educational tests andassessments. It includes samples of tests and test results. It alsoexplains test interpretation in a practical way. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Ability    2. Assessment, Testing & Measurement    3. General    4. Psychological tests    5. Psychology    6. Psychometrics    7. Reference    8. Testing    9. Psychological testing & measurement    10. Psychology & Psychiatry / General   

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Poorly written, difficult to understand.
I am a graduate student in psychology, and this is the WORST textbook I have ever used.It is poorly written, confusing, and doesn't define clearly even the most simple concepts it is trying to explain.I have to go online to look up definitions and concepts.

Find another text if you can
I am a graduate student, half-way through my program and this is not a good introduction to the subject of Psych Testing.The wording is vague, the text skips around so much that finding answers to even simple questions requires extensive hunting.It is unnecessarily difficult to understand.Our professor says it will be a good reference book down the road, but I intend to sell it the minute I've completed the course and then go on to find another book so that I can get a better handle on the subject

Psychological Study guide for YOU!
Anastasi's orignal textbook is a difficult text book for any graduate student.Ms Urbina simplifies and gives examples of typical exam questions.It reviews the nature of psychological tests, statisticalconcepts in reliability, validity, item analysis, ability testing,personality testing, and finally a good section on the application oftesting.Read more

Subjects:  1. General    2. Mental Health    3. Psychological Testing    4. Psychological tests    5. Psychology    6. Psychological testing & measurement    7. Psychology & Psychiatry / General   

Subjects:  1. Assessment, Testing & Measurement    2. Intelligence Testing    3. Mental Health    4. Psychology    5. Reference    6. Woodcock-Johnson Psycho-Educat    7. Woodcock-Johnson Psycho-Educational Battery    8. Intelligence    9. Psychological testing & measurement    10. Psychology & Psychiatry / Clinical Psychology   

Subjects:  1. Assessment, Testing & Measurement    2. Compulsive behavior    3. Diagnosis    4. Psychodiagnostics    5. Psychology    6. Psychopathology - Addiction    7. Substance abuse    8. Treatment    9. Addiction & therapy    10. Psychology & Psychiatry / Addictions   

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Don't bother with other brands of PSAT guides
I orginally bought The Kaplan and Princeton Review guides together this summer. Until about three weeks before the test the only book i had gone through of the two was the Princeton Review, which i had completed while watching TV one night. It had some ideas, but truely it wasn't anything i couldn't have figured out myself. When i took a practice test at school one day, i did really poorly, had trouble with the Read Comphresnion questions, i couldn't finish that many math problems, and overall struggling. So i went home and found this book, the point of the wookbook is to help you get a better score. It taught me how to break down the two article read comphernsions. Everything in this book is useful, even the english section which i was already confident in. There is alot of coverage on all sections, so it's really up to you if you need more work some sections than others. Also another quality i like is there are practice problems in the lessons, so you don't have to pull out a pratice test and check the answers after each chapter. Seriously if your looking for a PSAT guide there isn't anything better than Kaplan. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Aptitude Testing    2. College Entrance    3. Educational Tests And Measurements (Higher Education)    4. National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test    5. PSAT (Educational test)    6. SAT & PSAT    7. Study Aids    8. Study Guides    9. Test Prep    10. Examinations & assessment    11. Study Aids / SAT & PSAT (Scholastic Assessment Test & Preliminary Scholastic Assessment Test)   

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Wonderful Book
1. What makes James Morrison's books special to me
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Subjects:  1. Assessment, Testing & Measurement    2. Clinical Psychology    3. Clinical Psychology (General)    4. Diagnosis    5. Mental Disorders    6. Mental health services    7. Mental illness    8. Psychology    9. Medical diagnosis    10. Psychiatry    11. Psychology & Psychiatry / Clinical Psychology   

Subjects:  1. Aptitude Testing    2. Armed Forces    3. Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery    4. Examinations    5. Study Aids    6. Study Guides    7. Test Prep    8. Tests    9. United States    10. Study Aids / Armed Forces    11. Theory of warfare & military science   

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MMPI-2 at a glance
While I am not a big fan of the MMPI2, if you must use it and write reports on it, this book will help you out immensely.
The portable MMPI-2 handbook
I have an entire shelf of MMPI/MMPI-2 books.While I can't give up my Roger Greene volume, nor Caldwell, Butcher, and others, this little book wins the prize for practicality.Dr. Nichols has integrated manifestations of psychopathology and real world behaviors that are commonly seen in various MMPI-2 score elevations or depressions at a level that exceeds that of other available handbooks. This is not just a book for the beginning student -- while it will give novices a real jump start, it is a book which advanced practitioners including forensic psychologists will find exceptionally useful. This book is worth every penny and then some.I only wish that Wiley would put this book into e-book format so that I could have it in my computer for ready access wherever I go.

Detailed, Helpful Advice for Beginners & Advanced MMPI-2 Use
David Nichols provides detailed, easy-to-understand guidance for assessing psychopathology and personality using the MMPI-2. As a graduate student in clinical psychology, I found this book extremely helpful in evaluating MMPI-2 profiles. The book we are using in my Assessment of Personality course - Newmarks' Major Psychological Assessment Instruments, was simply too dry and academic. I purchased Essentials to help me understand the powerful MMPI-2.It worked!In class, when called upon to provide my own assessment of MMPI-2 profiles, I was able to quickly make sound judgments.Other students were amazed. In fact, the professor asked: "How did you know that?" When I shared I was using Nichols' book, he exclaimed; "That explains it. That book is excellent."Read more

Subjects:  1. Clinical Psychology    2. Mental Health    3. Minnesota Multiphasic Personal    4. Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory    5. Personality    6. Personality Assessment And Testing    7. Psychology    8. Mental health services    9. Psychological testing & measurement    10. Psychology & Psychiatry / Clinical Psychology   

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An Excellent Resource for Neuropsych Clinicians
This is an excellent source for beginning and advanced clinicians.The descriptions of the tests and test administration are concise and easy to understand.In addition, the norms for each test are included.The testsare grouped by the what specific areas they measure (i.e., Intelligence,Achievement, Memory, and Sensory and Motor areas).Since this text coversa wide array of tests, it is well worth the investment. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Handbooks, manuals, etc    2. Medical    3. Medical / Nursing    4. Mental Health    5. Neuropsychological tests    6. Neuropsychology    7. Psychological Testing    8. Psychology    9. Reference    10. Cognition & cognitive psychology    11. Medical / Neurology    12. Medicine | Neuropsychology    13. Physiological & neuro-psychology    14. Psychological testing & measurement   

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Suits my personality to a tee
Diana Fosha has her own notion of healing with the power of full engagement, while the terapist "industry" has revelled in its aloofness and detatchment. To borrow a phrase 'You go girl'!

Rich In Ideas, Passionate, and Clinically Innovative
Dr. Fosha has given us the gift of an important book, which combines easy access (fine writing), leading edge concepts in relational psychology and Intensive Psychotherapy, and the most helpful texts of clinical psychotherapy examples I have ever encountered.In fact, her running commentary (pithy and informal) on video transcripts from her own treatment is the perfect voice to accompany her chapter-long (and very helpful) illustrations of how the theoretical material on attachment and emotion-affect apply in real-life psychotherapy consultions and treatment. There are also some marvelous literary quotations sprinkled around, and solid recognition of the pathfinders ahead of her, from Darwin to Davenloo.

An important contribution
In this most important work Dr Fosha describes in clear prose and with engaging case material an emerging trend in the practice of effective short term psychotherapy. Her understanding and honoring of the internal landscape of the patients subjective experience and affect regulation will be an inspiration to new clinicians and a source of wisdom to seasoned veterans. Theory is presented in a clear accessible manner free of fluff and is enhanced by her lyrical narrative style. Read more

Subjects:  1. Behavior Therapy    2. Psychology    3. Psychotherapy    4. Psychotherapy - General    5. Psychological testing & measurement   

Subjects:  1. Counseling - General    2. Education    3. Education / Teaching    4. Educational tests and measurem    5. Educational tests and measurements    6. General    7. Psychological tests for childr    8. Psychological tests for children    9. Testing & Measurement    10. Education / Evaluation    11. Examinations & assessment    12. Psychological testing & measurement   

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measures for clinical practice:a sourcebook:volume 1:couples, families, and children, third edition (measures for clinical
the book is not worth much for me;I ordered it only because it was a required text by school I attend.Even the teacher did not want to use it.Not a good information source (searching google proves to much better!).You ended up making money, and that's the rest of the story!

Gets better with each new edition
Fischer and Corcoran complete another Herculean task with their 3rd edition of MEASURES FOR CLINICAL PRACTICE Volumes I and II. For each edition, the editors search the literature for instruments that demonstrate practical and research applications.They study and report on the calibration issues for each instrument. These issues include scoring, sampling, reliability and validity. Of course, they include the citations of their sources. The bureaucratic corporate machine called "help"
A clear and succinct account of one of the true evils of our time! Status quo apologists and meritocracy fanatics, sadly, won't get the point, but, for the rest of us who strive to offer what we can to those in need and fight for a more equitable and just society, the book is a clear outline of just what needs to be eliminated for the betterment of all. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Clinical Psychology    2. General    3. Mental Health    4. Psychological Testing    5. Psychological Tests    6. Psychology    7. Social Science    8. Social Work    9. Social Work Practice    10. Psychological testing & measurement    11. Psychology & Psychiatry / General   

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A must have for any pediatric neuropsychologist !
Thanks to Sue Baron, the pediatric neuropsychologist finaly have the equivalent of the Lezak for adult neuropsychology. This book is in the top list of the American Board of Pediatric Neuropsychology and you will understand why when you will read it ! The heart of the book is the description of almost all the tests available in the field of pediatric neuropsychology. The descriptions cover the statistic properties and the main studies available on the principle tests. Each chapter that presents a function starts with a state of the art at a Phd level. It really saved me hours of reading in many books ! Included are also numerous norms (mostly americans)with unpublished ones. The references included are of a great interrest too. The chapter on report wrinting is also essential. To be perfect one would expect a chapter on achievement tests and due to its publication date the WISC IV and the WPPSI III are not included. Apart from this there is simply no criticism to formulate. In a short way I strongly recommand this book and would be very surprised to find any disappointed reader !

Finally, a Spreen & Strauss for child neuropsychologists!
My title should "tell all" to any real neuropsychologist. I don't have time to give this book the review it deserves, so I'll just say this: It's a must have for any pediatric neuropsychologist. It's also beautifully written. Thanks, Dr. Baron! ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Brain damage    2. Diagnosis    3. Medical    4. Neuropsychological Tests    5. Neuropsychology    6. Pediatric neuropsychology    7. Pediatrics    8. Psychiatry - General    9. Psychological tests for childr    10. Psychological tests for children    11. Psychology    12. Psychotherapy - Child & Adolescent    13. Child & developmental psychology    14. Medical / Psychiatry    15. Medicine | Neuropsychology    16. Neurology & clinical neurophysiology    17. Paediatric medicine    18. Psychological testing & measurement   

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I won't write a report without it
This book is absolutely essential in answering questions about administration and scoring. It also does a fantastic job of explaining the theory behind the C-H-C theory and how it is used in the WJ-III.Finally, it gives great pointers in interpretation. It does a thorough job of explaining GAF, clusters, and subtests. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Aptitude Testing    2. Assessment, Testing & Measurement    3. Educational Psychology    4. Personality    5. Personality Assessment And Testing    6. Psychology    7. Testing & Measurement    8. Woodcock-Johnson Tests of Cogn    9. Woodcock-Johnson Tests of Cognitive Ability    10. Intelligence    11. Psychological testing & measurement    12. Psychology & Psychiatry / Cognitive Psychology   

Subjects:  1. Aptitude Testing    2. Composition and exercises    3. English language    4. Examinations    5. Report writing    6. SAT & PSAT    7. SAT (Educational test)    8. Study Aids    9. Study Guides    10. Test Prep    11. ELT: writing skills    12. Study Aids / SAT & PSAT (Scholastic Assessment Test & Preliminary Scholastic Assessment Test)   

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Most important
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Still needs work
The comprehensive system continues to be reviewed and modified, but Exner still isn't all the way there yet. The text has an overload of information, combining interpretation and research together in a way that is difficultto read. In addition, there are many questions about scoring that are notanswered in the book. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Assessment, Testing & Measurement    2. Personality    3. Personality Assessment And Testing    4. Psychiatry - General    5. Psychology    6. Rorschach Test    7. Psychological testing & measurement    8. The self, ego, identity, personality   

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Presents Statistics Conceptually
This is by far the best introductory text to statistics for students in the behavioral sciences I have come across. Well done!
As I read this book three things became apparent: one, the authors know their subject inside and out; second, they understand their beginning audience; last and most importantly they know how to teach.I stronglyrecommend this well written book to anyone needing to learn stats. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Mental Health    2. Psychology    3. Statistics    4. Educational psychology    5. Probability & statistics    6. Psychological testing & measurement    7. Psychology & Psychiatry / Statistics