Therapeutic Assessment of a Man With "ADD"

• Published in: Journal of personality assessment Vol. 80; no. 2; pp. 115 - 129
• Main Author: Finn, Stephen E.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Philadelphia, PA Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc 01.04.2003; Taylor & Francis
• Subjects: Adult; Attention deficit disorder; Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity - diagnosis; Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity - psychology; Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity - therapy; Biological and medical sciences; Cooperative Behavior; Humans; Individual psychotherapy; Male; Medical sciences; Personality Assessment; Professional-Patient Relations; Psychological assessment; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Psychopathology. Psychiatry; Psychotherapies. Psychological and clinical counseling; Single case studies; Texas; Therapeutic approaches; Therapist-Client relationships; Treatments; Young men; Texas; Case study; Human; Evaluation; Symptomatology; Treatment; Attentional disorder; Professional practice; Individual psychotherapy; Differential diagnostic; Therapeutic relation; Personality disorder

In this article I present the first published complete case study of a psychological assessment done by the methods of Therapeutic Assessment. A client-therapist pair had been working together for several years but felt "stuck" in the treatment. The man had been previously diagnosed with a...