Description

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This comprehensive text describes a multimethod approach to assessing psychological and behavioral features of bipolar spectrum disorders alongside important contextual considerations.

It provides mental health professionals with valuable empirical and interpretive support as they answer assessment questions for diagnostic and decision-making purposes. Chapters are written by assessment psychologists who are renowned for their expertise and contributions in developing and researching specific assessment instruments or topics.

Contributors provide key information about widely used interview methods, self-report measures, and performance-based tests, including the MMPI-3, the SPECTRA, the Rorschach test, and cognitive and neuropsychological evaluations. They also review diagnostic criteria from the DSM-5-TR and the ICD-11.

Additional chapters review special considerations for differential diagnosis, including comorbidity with medical conditions, distinguishing bipolar spectrum disorders from other disorders with similar traits, and accounting for multicultural factors. Two in-depth case examples provide comprehensive illustrations of the multimethod evaluation process with an adolescent and an adult.

About the Author

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James H. Kleiger, PsyD, ABPP, ABAP, is a diplomate in clinical and assessment psychology and Fellow in the Society for Personality Assessment. Dr. Kleiger is a practicing psychologist and psychoanalyst in Bethesda, MD. He is past President of the Baltimore Washington Society for Psychoanalysis and previously the Director of the Postdoctoral Psychology Training Program at the Menninger Clinic in Topeka, KS. He is the author of Disordered Thinking and The Rorschach, Assessing Psychosis: A Clinician's Guide, Rorschach Assessment of Psychotic Phenomena, Psychological Assessment of Disordered Thinking and Perception, and the historical fiction The 11th Inkblot. Irving B. Weiner, PhD, ABBP, is a retired Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences at the University of South Florida and Past President of the Clinical Division of the American Psychological Association (APA). He is a Fellow of APA and the Association for Psychological Science, a Diplomat of the American board of Professional Psychology in both Clinical and Forensic Psychology, and previously a licensed psychologist in the practice of clinical and forensic psychology. He is the author of numerous articles and books, including Psychological Assessment of Disordered Thinking and Perception, and is Editor-in-Chief of the 12-volume Handbook of Psychology.