ABSTRACT
How might we go about retaining the particularity of a client as we assess him or her in terms of standard deviations, diagnostic categories, and environmental contingencies? How might we make assessment directly relevant to treatment, placement, and the client’s personal interests? Perhaps we could do this by setting as our goal an understanding of and intervention with the client in terms of his or her own life. But then how shall we do this in a systematic and valid way?
