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tests • Weak for assessing depression • Poor inter-‐rater reliability for some scores • Reliance on unpublished or unavailable studies in the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