title: Assessee and assessor experiences of significant events in psychological assessment feedback.
abstract: Although a growing body of scholarly work explores the unique utility and therapeutic uses of psychological assessment, less work has focused specifically on feedback, with few studies that have explored empirically the underlying processes that may describe the role of feedback in a successful assessment. The purpose of this project was to add to the discourse on this topic by engaging in an empirical study exploring assessee and assessor experiences of significant events in psychological assessment feedback. The methodology is qualitative and modeled after significant events research in the study of psychotherapy process. I analyze the accounts of 6 assessment clients and 6 assessment clinicians regarding key events in their experience of feedback.
authors.affiliation: Institute for Graduate Clinical Psychology, Widener University, USA. wardr@lasalle.edu
authors.forename: Robin M
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Ward
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003258:Consumer Behavior; D005246:Feedback; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D008297:Male; D010555:Personality Inventory; D013637:Tape Recording; D014481:United States