A. JORDAN WRIGHT, PHD, ABAP, is an assessment psychologist and faculty in the Counseling Psychology program at New York University, where he runs the Center for Counseling and Community Wellbeing, NYU's training clinic. He has published several books on assessment, including the Handbook of Psychological Assessment (6th edition, Wiley, 2016), Essentials of Psychological Assessment Supervision (Wiley, 2019), and Essentials of Psychological Tele-Assessment (Wiley, 2020). He is on the executive board of the American Board of Assessment Psychology, is a past board member of the Society for Personality Assessment, and is a past president of APA's Section IX (Assessment) of Division 12.

Preface vii
Acknowledgments ix
Part I Conducting Psychological Assessment 1
Introduction The Hypothesis Testing Model
Chapter 1 The Initial Clinical Assessment: Clinical Interviewing and Hypothesis Building 11
Chapter 2 Selecting Tests 39
Chapter 3 Testing 57
Chapter 4 Integrating Data 65
Chapter 5 Writing Reports 99
Chapter 6 Providing Feedback 133
Part II Case Studies in Psychological Assessment 147
Introduction Case Studies in Psychological Assessment
Chapter 7 A Woman With Poor Attention 151
Chapter 8 A Woman With Interpersonal Problems 187
Chapter 9 A Young Man Who Steals 229
Chapter 10 An Adolescent Girl With Test Anxiety 265
Chapter 11 An Aggressive Boy 301
Chapter 12 An Adolescent Girl With School Problems 333
References 381
Index 387