ABSTRACT
Psychological assessment has traditionally been an evaluation of a client by the psychologist. It has been the clinician’s responsibility to establish rapport, administer and score tests, analyze the results, draw conclusions, and write a report. If the psychologist is the one to discuss the assessment with the client, he interprets those portions of the report for which he thinks the person is ready. That all sounds reasonable enough, especially since those practices reect the tenor of our technological times in general as well as psychology’s particular efforts to model itself after the physical sciences.
