TY - JOUR
T1 - Psychological assessment as an intervention with couples
T2 - Single case application of collaborative techniques in clinical practice
AU - Provenzi, Livio
AU - Menichetti, Julia
AU - Coin, Romina
AU - Aschieri, Filippo
PY - 2017/4/1
Y1 - 2017/4/1
N2 - Psychological assessment tools yield valid, reliable, and useful data for clinical psychologists. Nonetheless, clients often lack appreciation of their utility to understand and cope with their daily life challenges. Collaborative/Therapeutic Assessment (C/TA) models have shown that assessment results might be used as brief therapeutic interventions through collaboratively sharing testing data with clients. In this article, we focused on two collaborative techniques, namely intervention sessions and summary sessions, as potentially able to increase assessment utility for clients, providing them with life-changing, experiencegrounded feedback based on assessment results. The application of these techniques to a clinical case with a couple suggested that both techniques might be beneficially applied to enhance clients' empathy and compassion, to promote new insights about life challenges, and to sustain the development of new narratives and life meanings. C/TA techniques appear to be effective brief therapeutic interventions and their application in everyday assessment practice may be warranted.
AB - Psychological assessment tools yield valid, reliable, and useful data for clinical psychologists. Nonetheless, clients often lack appreciation of their utility to understand and cope with their daily life challenges. Collaborative/Therapeutic Assessment (C/TA) models have shown that assessment results might be used as brief therapeutic interventions through collaboratively sharing testing data with clients. In this article, we focused on two collaborative techniques, namely intervention sessions and summary sessions, as potentially able to increase assessment utility for clients, providing them with life-changing, experiencegrounded feedback based on assessment results. The application of these techniques to a clinical case with a couple suggested that both techniques might be beneficially applied to enhance clients' empathy and compassion, to promote new insights about life challenges, and to sustain the development of new narratives and life meanings. C/TA techniques appear to be effective brief therapeutic interventions and their application in everyday assessment practice may be warranted.
KW - Collaborative assessment
KW - Couple
KW - Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)-2
KW - Rorschach
KW - Single case study
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U2 - 10.1037/pro0000076
DO - 10.1037/pro0000076
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85017605752
VL - 48
SP - 90
EP - 97
JO - Professional Psychology: Research and Practice
JF - Professional Psychology: Research and Practice
SN - 0735-7028
IS - 2
ER -