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3/13/15 1 THE USE OF THE RORSCHACH AND OTHER PROJECTIVE TECHNIQUES IN FORENSIC ASSESSMENT Mark L. Goldstein, Ph.D. American College of Forensic Psychology Symposium San Diego, California March 2015 The Use of Personality Tests in Forensic Assessment American Psychological AssociaOon AssociaOon of Family and ConciliaOon Courts Ackerman & Ackerman (1997) Hagen and Castagna (2001) Wangberg (2000) Quinell and Bow (2001) Bow, Flens and Gould (2010)

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THE  USE  OF  THE  RORSCHACH  AND  OTHER    

PROJECTIVE  TECHNIQUES  IN  FORENSIC  ASSESSMENT  

Mark  L.  Goldstein,  Ph.D.  American  College  of  Forensic  Psychology  Symposium  

San  Diego,  California  March  2015  

 

   The  Use  of  Personality  Tests  in  

Forensic  Assessment    •  American  Psychological  AssociaOon  

•  AssociaOon  of  Family  and  ConciliaOon  Courts  •  Ackerman  &  Ackerman  (1997)  •  Hagen  and  Castagna  (2001)  •  Wangberg  (2000)  •  Quinell  and  Bow  (2001)  •  Bow,  Flens  and  Gould  (2010)  

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   The  Use  of  the  Rorschach  in  Forensic  

Assessment    •  Erard  (2007)  

•  Weiner  (1997;  2013)  

   Rorschach  Research  

 •  Weiner  (2012)  •  Mihuri,  Meyer,  Dunitrascu  and  Bombel  2013)  •  Bornstein  (2012)  •  Parker,  et  al  (1988)  •  Ganellen  (1996)  •  Hoppe  and  Kenny  (1994)  •  Schultz  (2014)  •  Meyer,  et  al  (2002)  •  Hiller,  et  al  (1999)  •  Shaffer,  et  al  (1999)  •  Wood,  et  al  (2003;  2001;  1996)  •  Grove,  et  al  (2002)  •  Lilienfeld,  et  al  (2001)  •  Acklin,  et  al  (2000)  •  Guarnaccia,  et  al  (2001)  

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   The  Rorschach  Performance  Assessment  System  (R-­‐PAS)  

     •  Meyer,  et  al  (2011)  •  Erard  (2012)  

The  Use  of  the  Rorschach  in  Custody  EvaluaOons  

 •  Hoppe  and  Kenny  (1994)  •  Schultz  (2014)  •  Singer,  et  al  (2008)  •  Archer  (2006)  •  Evans,  et  al  (2008)  •  Calloway  (2005)  

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Strengths  and  Weaknesses  of  the  Rorschach  

 •  Good  inter-­‐rater  reliability  •  Good  test-­‐retest  reliability  •  Good  for  assessing  thinking  disturbance  •  Moderately  good  for  assessing  interpersonal  dependency  •  Difficult  to  fake  in  comparison  to  objecOve  personality  

tests  •  Weak  for  assessing  depression  •  Poor  inter-­‐rater  reliability  for  some  scores  •  Reliance  on  unpublished  or  unavailable  studies  in  the  

manual  •  Some  duplicaOon  of  samples  in  creaOng  norms  

Other  ProjecOve  Measures    

•  ThemaOc  AppercepOon  Test  –  Social  cogniOon  and  object  relaOons  scale  –  Cramer  defense  scales  –  Affect  maturity  scale  

   •  Figure  Drawings  

–  Draw-­‐A-­‐Person  Test  –  Draw-­‐A-­‐Person-­‐in-­‐the-­‐Rain  –  House-­‐Tree-­‐Person  Test  –  KineOc  Family  Drawing  –  Psychological  Study  of  Images  Captured  and  Electronically  Measured  

(PSICEM)  

•  Incomplete  Sentences  

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Daubert  Challenges  and  the  Use  of  ProjecOve  Instruments  

 

Custody evaluation

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Fitness for duty evaluation

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