title: Introduction to the Special Section on Teaching, Training, and Supervision in Personality and Psychological Assessment.
abstract: This special section contains empirical and conceptual articles pertaining to the broad topic of teaching, training, and supervision of assessment. Despite some evidence of a decline in recent decades, assessment remains a defining practice of professional psychologists in many subfields, including clinical, counseling, school, and neuropsychology, that consumes a consequential proportion of their time. To restore assessment to its rightful place of prominence, a clear agenda needs to be developed for advancing teaching and training methods, increasing instruction to state-of-the-art methods, and defining aims that could be elucidated through empirical inquiry. The 7 articles in this special section provide a developmental perspective of these issues that collectively provide practical tools for instructors and begin to set the stage for a research agenda in this somewhat neglected area of study that is vital to the identity of professional psychology. Additionally, 2 comments are provided by distinguished figures in the field concerning the implications of the articles in the special section to health services psychology and the competencies-based movement in applied psychology.
authors.affiliation: a Center for Prevention Implementation Methodology , Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences , Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.
authors.forename: Justin D
authors.initials: JD
authors.lastname: Smith
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D010551:Personality; D010552:Personality Assessment; D010554:Personality Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis*; D011584:Psychology / Q000193:education*