Psychological Testing That Matters: Creating a Road Map for Effective Treatment - Hardcover

Anthony D. Bram; Mary Jo Peebles

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1433816741 ISBN 13: 9781433816741

Publisher: American Psychological Association, 2014

Synopsis

Psychological testing is widespread today. Test results are only valuable, though, when they contribute meaningful information that helps therapists better meet the treatment needs of their clients. Psychological Testing That Matters describes an approach to inference-making and synthesizing data that creates effective, individualized treatment plans.

The book’s treatment-centered approach describes how to reconcile the results of various tests, use test results to assess a patient’s psychological capacities, reach a diagnosis, and write an informative test report.

About this title

About the Author

Anthony D. Bram, PhD, ABAP, FABP, is a psychologist/psychoanalyst in Lexington, MA, where he conducts psychological testing, CBT, psychodynamic therapy, and psychoanalysis with kids and adults.
 
Dr. Bram is on faculty at Cambridge Health Alliance/Harvard Medical School and the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Inst. He received his PhD from the Univ. of Kansas and completed a post-doc at Menninger/Topeka. He completed adult analytic training at the Greater KC Psychoanalytic Inst. and child training from the Boston Psychoanalytic Soc. and Inst.
 
He received a Fellowship from the American Psychoanal. Association, the Martin Mayman Award from SPA, Scientific Writing Award from the Menninger, Biannual Award for Research in Psychological Assessment from Psychodiagnostics, and the Book Proposal Prize from APA Div. 39.
 
Mary Jo Peebles, PhD, ABPP, ABPH, completed undergraduate at Wellesley College and received her PhD from Case Western, where her dissertation advisor was Dr. Irv Weiner. She completed two postdoctoral fellowships, one in child/adolescent psychology at the Univ. of Texas Medical Branch, and the other in adult psychology at Menninger/Topeka..
 
For nearly two decades, she practiced, taught, and supervised testing at Menninger as a member of the Postdoctoral Fellowship Training Committee and as a supervisor and associate professor in the Karl Menninger School of Psychiatry, where she won awards for her teaching/supervision.
 
Dr. Peebles is a member of the American Psychoanalytic Assoc., has trained in family systems, biofeedback, and EMDR, is board certified in clinical psychology and clinical hypnosis, and worked at Chestnut Lodge Hospital.
 
She has given workshops and presentations nationally and internationally on trauma, therapy planning, and testing and is the author of numerous articles on these topics as well as two editions of her book, Beginnings: The Art and Science of Planning Psychotherapy (2002; 2012), including a Japanese translation.

Edition details

• Publisher: American Psychological Association
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1433816741
• ISBN 13: 9781433816741
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 468