2016
DOI: 10.1080/00223891.2015.1119154
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“Why am I so stuck?”: A Collaborative/Therapeutic Assessment Case Discussion

Abstract: Assessors from 3 continents worked together on a single multimethod case study. Their goal was to hold the client at the center and forefront of their attitudes and thinking as each assessor focused on a specific measure or group of measures. The adult client requested a neuropsychological assessment and completed a full battery of cognitive measures as well as the MMPI-2, the Rorschach, and the Wartegg. A basic tenet of collaborative/therapeutic assessment holds that the client is a full partner in the assess… Show more

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“…Hence, a core feature of Therapeutic Assessment is the desire to communicate the assessment results to the patients in a way that may be helpful for them as part of a self-transformative process, in contrast to simply providing useful information for other clinicians or decision makers to act on. In Therapeutic Assessment, test data are typically seen not primarily as findings but as tools (Engelman and Allyn 2012)-this means that rather than saving the test results for last as if they were somehow brought into being by the all-knowing gaze of a skilled assessor and then gifted to the patient, they are meant to be used as they emerge. Perhaps most importantly, '[t]he goal of therapeutic assessment is not just the collection of information about the patient/client, but rather, the assessment procedure itself is designed to be transformative' (Engelman and Allyn 2012, p. 71); that is, to induce change in the way that the patient copes with the very issues that are subject to assessment.…”
Section: Original Researchmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Hence, a core feature of Therapeutic Assessment is the desire to communicate the assessment results to the patients in a way that may be helpful for them as part of a self-transformative process, in contrast to simply providing useful information for other clinicians or decision makers to act on. In Therapeutic Assessment, test data are typically seen not primarily as findings but as tools (Engelman and Allyn 2012)-this means that rather than saving the test results for last as if they were somehow brought into being by the all-knowing gaze of a skilled assessor and then gifted to the patient, they are meant to be used as they emerge. Perhaps most importantly, '[t]he goal of therapeutic assessment is not just the collection of information about the patient/client, but rather, the assessment procedure itself is designed to be transformative' (Engelman and Allyn 2012, p. 71); that is, to induce change in the way that the patient copes with the very issues that are subject to assessment.…”
Section: Original Researchmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The Rorschach was of particular use in this regard because it offered a chance to elicit and scaffold the perceptual idiosyncrasies that carried her unique stamp and left her functioning compromised. Additionally, the Rorschach’s value as a tool for therapeutic benefit was used to offer Ms. A a way to elicit curiosity and interest in and about her mind (Engelman et al, 2016; del Carmen Espinoza, 2020; de Villemor-Amaral & Finn, 2020). Furthermore, it was imagined the Rorschach would furnish a relational experience through which a disorganized self and a nearby other might collaborate to build upon her self-understanding (Fantini et al, 2022; Finn et al, 2012).…”
Section: Assessmentmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Adapting the classical classic single case design method, Finn and colleagues deployed this research format to demonstrate the benefits of Therapeutic Assessment (TA; Engelman et al, 2016 ; Finn, 2003 ; Smith et al, 2010 ), a model that premises that assessment can, when coupled with supportive feedback, provide therapeutic benefit in addition to diagnostic benefit. Responding to Finn and colleagues’ precedent, we published ( M. Levis & Levis, 2020a ) an initial online single case study evaluating usage of Conflict Analysis (CA), a self-guided online therapeutic assessment.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%