Table of Contents
Preface vii
About the Contributors xix
1 Collaborative/Therapeutic Assessment: Basic Concepts, History, and Research 1Stephen E. Finn, Constance T. Fischer, and Leonard Handler
Part I: Assessments of Individual Adults
2 Therapeutic Assessment of a Dissociating Client: Learning Internal Navigation 27Judith Armstrong
3 Therapeutic Assessment of Depression: Love’s Labors Lost? 47Marc J. Diener, Mark J. Hilsenroth, Thomas D. Cromer, Frank P. Pesale, and Jenelle Slavin-Mulford
4 Collaboration in Neuropsychological Assessment: Metaphor as Intervention With a Suicidal Adult 69Diane H. Engelman and J. B. Allyn
5 Collaboration Throughout the Assessment: A Young Man in Transition 93Constance T. Fischer
6 Therapeutic Assessment for a Treatment in Crisis Following Multiple Suicide Attempts 113J. Christopher Fowler
7 Using Therapeutic Assessment to Explore Emotional Constriction: A Creative Professional in Crisis 133Jan H. Kamphuis and Hilde de Saeger
8 Therapeutic Assessment Involving Multiple Life Issues: Coming to Terms With Problems of Health, Culture, and Learning 157Hale Martin and Erin Jacklin
9 Collaborative Assessment for Psychotherapy: Witnessing A Woman’s Reawakening 179Patrick J. McElfresh
10 Therapeutic Assessment of Severe Abuse: A Woman Living With Her Past 199Carol Groves Overton
Part II: Assessments of Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults
11 Therapeutic Assessment of an Adolescent: An Adopted Teenager Comes to Feel Understood 225Marita Frackowiak
12 Collaborative Storytelling With Children: An Unruly Six- Year- Old Boy 243Leonard Handler
13 Rorschach- Based Psychotherapy: Collaboration With a Suicidal Young Woman 269Noriko Nakamura
14 Collaborative Assessment of a Child in Foster Care: New Understanding of Bad Behavior 291Caroline Purves
15 Therapeutic Assessment With a 10- Year- Old Boy and His Parents: The Pain Under the Disrespect 311Deborah J. Tharinger, Melissa E. Fisher, and Bradley Gerber
16 Collaborative Assessment on an Adolescent Psychiatric Ward: A Psychotic Teenage Girl 335Heikki Toivakka
Part III: Special Applications
17 Therapeutic Assessment Alternative to Custody Evaluation: An Adolescent Whose Parents Could Not Stop Fighting 357F. Barton Evans
18 Therapeutic Assessment With a Couple in Crisis: Undoing Problematic Projective Identification via the Consensus Rorschach 379Stephen E. Finn
19 Case Studies in Collaborative Neuropsychology: A Man With Brain Injury and a Child With Learning Problems 401Tad T. Gorske and Steven R. Smith
Afterword: Forward! 421Constance T. Fischer, Leonard Handler, and Stephen E. Finn
Author Index 427
Subject Index 430