ABSTRACT
Normative international reference data serve important purposes in psychological assessment, and the standards for psychological testing include collection of such data as a basic foundation of test construction and evaluation. With respect to clinical decision-making, data obtained from nonpatients from different countries and from different ethnic groups within a country are essential for providing Rorschach norms against which practitioners can compare their patients’ protocols. Rorschach research on the personality functioning of elderly people in good physical and mental health using the Rorschach has been limited. Research findings indicate that many of the traditional cutoff scores for adults are applicable in contemporary assessment of adolescents as well. It remains a major question for clinicians who work with older adults whether these cutoff scores for distinguishing between healthy and psychopathological functioning can be applied to the Rorschach protocols of contemporary senior adults.
