ABSTRACT
This chapter describes standard and multicultural assessment or personality and psychopathology. For the purposes of this book, standard assessment refers to practice with the most frequently utilized objective and projective instruments-the Rorschach (Rorschach, 1942), the Thematic Apperception Test (TAT; Murray, 1943), and the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI; Hathaway & McKinley, 1943), although standard assessment also includes a broader range of instruments encompassing eight practice areas and the 50 most frequently applied measures (Camara, Nathan, & Puente, 2000). Training for competence in a relatively small number of these instruments has been an essential ingredient in Boulder model scientist practitioner and more recent Vail model professional programs (see Dana & May, 1987, pp. 1-75; Dana, 1992b). However, assessment training in some programs has been diluted by the omission of required courses for undergraduates in psychological testing and for graduate students in psychometrics and test theory.
