The psychological assessment of abused and traumatized children
By: Francis D. Kelly.
Series: The LEA series in personality and clinical psychology
Publisher: Erlbaum; Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Mahwah, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 260
Subjects: Child abuse -- Psychology; Child sexual abuse -- Psychology; Psychological tests; Child abuse -- Case studies; Child Abuse -- psychology; Child Abuse, Sexual -- psychology; Psychological Tests; Child Abuse -- case studies
Genres: case studies.
Description: Francis Kelly offers a clinical paradigm for the personality assessment of abused or traumatized children via projective instruments - the TAT and Rorschach - and shows how various projective measures and indices can be utilized as sensitive barometers of changes in self-, object, and ego functioning following therapeutic interventions and other corrective experiences.

Furthermore, integrating the tenets of trauma theory with those of psychoanalytic theory, he sets this clinical paradigm in a meaningful theoretical context, and draws on both theory and clinical experience to develop a comprehensive psychological composite of the child who has been maltreated.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 232-247) and indexes.