Describes innovative methods for teaching projective assessment in a one semester graduate level clinical psychology course. The course fosters competence in the basics of administration, scoring, and in-depth interpretation of at least one test. (RM)

Describes a geropsychiatric outreach team that evaluated and treated psychiatrically impaired elderly (N=66) in their home. Initial diagnostic reports and three-month follow-up interviews suggested that most patients had improved or stabilized and were able to remain in the community. Intervention strategies and patient characteristics are…

Independent evaluations are usually requested when a parent disputes the psychological evaluation of his or her child completed by school officials. These independent evaluations are comparable to a second opinion as found in other professions. However such evaluations are often fraught with problems, including qualifications of the examiner,…

Examines the issue of validity and values in the scientific method of research, and suggests that researchers must continuously question the premises upon which their research is based. (SB)

The purpose of the present study was to investigate the underlying dimensions of the 10 Rorschach inkblots by means of standard multidimensional scaling procedures. The question of whether such emergent dimensions would be related to standard Rorschach scoring categories was raised; and the possibility of individual characteristics was explored.…

Discusses the value of knowledge and the effects of failing to value knowledge. (Author/RK)

Paper presents the partial results of a method of interpreting art symbolization objectively, not be separating each symbol into its parts but by seeing as a whole the universal pattern of the developmental stages of all mankind. (Author)

The author calls for a broader new psychoeducational evaluation which allows for more productive uses of the school psychologist's services. Special education, being in transition, is more clearly focusing on finding ways for exceptional children to function in regular school settings. (Author)

The pilot study investigated the efficacy of a procedural research model for making and evaluating individual predictions concerning student teaching behavior in classrooms for emotionally disturbed children. (Author)

The author suggests ways school districts can diminish the possibility of legal action against them by parents who object to psychological testing. These suggestions are also aimed at permitting the psychologist to function in a more secure setting and be seen in a more positive light by the community. (Author)

A Young Children's Social Desirability Scale based on the MMPI was constructed and administered to nursery school children. Results showed that social desirability scores increased with age, showed a low positive relationship to picture vocabularly IQ, and were unrelated to sex in a high socieconomic sample. (KJ)

This study shows that personality instruments are significantly confounded by the somatic characteristics of physically disabled subjects, illustrates the nature and effect of the moderator variable of physical condition on MMPI item endorsements for patients in a specific diagnostic group, and suggests two methods of controlling the moderator…

Examines relationship between psychological assessment and academic performance within framework of the largest residential facility for the mentally retarded in the world, Willowbrook State School, made possible by analysis of requests for psychological reevaluation of patients made by institution's Education Department. (Author)