Bøker av Francis D. Kelly

A guide to assessing the abused and traumatized child that emphasizes the importance of projective measures in delineating the impact of maltreatment on psychological systems and structures.

This volume, which deals with projective techniques for assessing personality, in particular object relations, in adolescents, will be of interest to researchers and clinicians dealing with adolescents, both normal and abnormal.

Focusing on adolescents, covering both the TAT and the Rorschach, and utilizing object relations theory as its major interpretive foundation, this volume describes how object relations functioning is manifest in different disorders, such as anorexia nervosa and trauma.

This text offers a clinical paradigm for the personality assessment of abused or traumatized children via projective instruments - the TAT and Rorschach. It also draws on both theory and clinical experience to develop a comprehensive psychological composite of the child who has been maltreated.