Description
Book SynopsisQuickly acquire the knowledge and skills you need to confidently administer, score, and interpret a variety of storytelling techniques Storytelling techniques are a popular projective approach for assessing many aspects of a person''s personality, such as cognitive processes, emotional functioning, and self-regulation. The broad spectrum of techniques includes the Thematic Apperception Test (TATthe most widely embraced), Roberts-2, and TEMAS (Tell-Me-A-Story). To use these tests properly, professionals need an authoritative source of advice and guidance on how to administer, score, and interpret them. Written by Hedwig Teglasi, a leading researcher of the TAT and other storytelling techniques, Essentials of TAT and Other Storytelling Assessments, Second Edition is that source.
Like all the volumes in the Essentials of Psychological Assessment series, this book is designed to help busy mental health professionals, and those in training, quickly acquire th
Table of Contents
Series Preface xi
Acknowledgments xiii
One: Overview 1
Two: Essentials of Storytelling Administration 29
Three: Essentials of Storytelling Interpretation 49
Four: Essentials of TAT Assessment of Cognition 74
Five: Essentials of TAT Assessment of Emotion 137
Six: Essentials of TAT Assessment of Object Relations 183
Seven: Essentials of TAT Assessment of Motivation and Self-Regulation 218
Eight: Essentials of the Children’s Apperception Test and Other Storytelling Methods for Children 262
Nine: Strengths and Weaknesses of Storytelling Assessment Techniques 300
Ten: Storytelling in the Assessment Battery 316
References 348
Annotated Bibliography 376
Index 378
About the Author 386
