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Critical Issues in Psychotherapy examines new and existing models in psychotherapy and presents them in an accessible manner to the practitioner in training through illustrative therapy cases and practitioner commentaries. There are many new models that have emerged in psychotherapy in recent years; however; they have not often been made accessible to front line practitioners.
Commentary: Collaborative Psychological Assessment: Becoming Psychological Hermeneuts
Commentary: Collaborative Psychological Assessment: Becoming Psychological Hermeneuts
Given Dr. Fischer's title, which contemplated the goal of moving psychological assessment “from objectification back to the life world,” I anticipated an antiscientific bias at odds with traditional psychometrics. Happily, my skepticism was misplaced. Her suggestions present an understandable, practical, and compelling approach to day-to-day psychological practice with application beyond the specific example she describes of collaborative assessment with psychotherapy clients. I anticipated an antiscientific bias because I was formerly afflicted with strong antiscientific, antipsychometric biases myself when I was introduced to psychological assessment during my first year of graduate school. I remember wanting to get on with something more important, such as learning and doing psychotherapy. Psychological assessment ...
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