ABSTRACT
This chapter initially addresses the changing role of psychological science in shaping the contemporary development of storytelling instruments. These instruments contribute to a renaissance of comprehensive personality-psychopathology assessment for all child/adolescent populations. The 8-card pen-and-ink APT drawing set has been used with relatively large numbers of male and female college students from one private university and with smaller samples of adolescents, geriatric groups, and racial/ethnic groups described as Whites, Blacks, Orientals, and Hispanics. Children and parents are depicted in family and school situations. Supplemental RATC pictures paralleling the original stimuli are available for Black and Hispanic children and adolescents. Tell-Me-A-Story was developed from a dynamic-cognitive model combining aspects of cognitive, ego, and interpersonal psychology, with social-cognitive learning theory for 5to-13-year-old children and adolescents. TEMAS still has no rivals among performance measures per se, and this subset of picture-story instruments for children and adolescents provides no exceptions.
