CONTEMPORARY PRACTICE OF PSYCHOLOGICAL-ASSESSMENT BY CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGISTS

The authors extended and, in some respects, updated a clinical assessment study that first appeared in the American Psychologist some 18 years ago. Using survey responses provided by 412 assessment-active clinical psychologists, it was found that (a) an identifiable, highly select core of assessment procedures is most often used by most clinical psychologists across most work settings; (b) psychological assessment as it is practiced now appears in many respects to be very similar to psychological assessment as it was practiced by psychologists 30 or more years ago; and(c) although much ado has been made about the decline of and academics' negative opinions about projective techniques, from the standpoint of practice, all that truly appears to be much ado about nothing.