Encyclopedia of Psychological Assessment

This review was principally written with the advice and assistance of Dr Susan Grey, consultant clinical psychologist at the Maudsley Hospital. The book has, however, been pawed over by quite a number of psychologists. In fact both the apology to the editor for the delay in delivering the review and the summary review could well be “once you have let a clinical psychologist lay hands on this book, it is quite difficult to get it back again”.

Assessment is what psychologists do. Assessment is a broad term, not quite synonymous with psychological testing, though psychological tests are the instruments most...