As one of psychology's oldest fields, personality assessment is one of the most extensively studied subsets of contemporary psychology. The Oxford Handbook of Personality Assessment synthesizes new and existing literature with clinical practice to provide a comprehensive volume on contemporary personality assessment, including its historical developments, underlying methods, applications, contemporary issues, and assessment techniques. This handbook, part of the Oxford Library of Psychology, addresses both the historical roots of personality assessment and the evolution of its contemporary methodological tenets, thus providing a foundation for the handbook's other innovative focus: the application of personality assessment in clinical, personnel, and forensic assessments. With a wealth of respected international contributors and unequalled breadth of content, the Oxford Handbook of Personality Assessment offers an authoritative and field-encompassing resource for researchers and clinicians from across the medical health and psychology disciplines (i.e., clinical psychology, psychiatry, and social work) and would be an ideal text for any graduate course on the topic of personality assessment. Readership : Graduate students, clinicians, researchers, and scholars. James N. Butcher is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Psychology at the University of Minnesota. He received his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1964. He has devoted much of his career to personality assessment, abnormal psychology, cross-cultural personality factors, and computer-based personality assessment. --- from the publisher |