Oxford Handbook of Personality Assessment (Oxford Library of Psychology) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0195366875 ISBN 13: 9780195366877

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2009

Synopsis

Oxford Handbooks offer authoritative and up-to-date reviews of original research in a particular subject area. Specially commissioned chapters from leading figures in the discipline give critical examinations of the progress and direction of debates, as well as a foundation for future research. Oxford Handbooks provide scholars and graduate students with compelling new perspectives upon a wide range of subjects in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences.
As one of psychology's oldest fields, personality assessment is one of the most extensively studied subsets of contemporary psychology. The Oxford Handbook of Personality Assessment synthesizes new and existing literature with clinical practice to provide a comprehensive volume on contemporary personality assessment, including its historical developments, underlying methods, applications, contemporary issues, and assessment techniques. This handbook, part of the Oxford Library of Psychology, addresses both the historical roots of personality assessment and the evolution of its contemporary methodological tenets, thus providing a foundation for the handbook's other innovative focus: the application of personality assessment in clinical, personnel, and forensic assessments.

With a wealth of respected international contributors and unequalled breadth of content, the Oxford Handbook of Personality Assessment offers an authoritative and field-encompassing resource for researchers and clinicians from across the medical health and psychology disciplines (i.e., clinical psychology, psychiatry, and social work) and would be an ideal text for any graduate course on the topic of personality assessment.

About this title

About the Author

James N. Butcher is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Psychology at the University of Minnesota. He received his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1964. He has devoted much of his career to personality assessment, abnormal psychology,
cross-cultural personality factors, and computer-based personality assessment.

Review

"...a top-quality survey of a well-established yet developing field. It will find an easy home on the desk of a graduate student or any researcher looking for a solid and thorough reference."
--PsycCRITIQUES

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0195366875
• ISBN 13: 9780195366877
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 768
• Editor: Butcher James N.