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Projective Tests of Personality

Encyclopedia of Autism Spectrum Disorders

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Synonyms

Projective tests; Projectives

Abbreviations

AAC:

Adolescent apperception cards

CAT:

Children’s apperception test

DAF:

Draw-a-family

DAM:

Draw-a-man

DAP:

Draw-a-person

HTP:

House-tree-person

RATC:

Roberts apperception test for children

SCT:

Sentence completion test

TAT:

Thematic apperception test

TEMAS:

Tell-me-a-story

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Comment

This is only a partial list of the projective instruments that might be administered, and projectives are only one kind of personality test which might be utilized in psychological evaluation (Adams and Culbertson 2009). And while the projective tests are described separately here, they are commonly given along with other psychological instruments to describe cognitive and processing skills as well as social and emotional functioning. In addition, psychological testing is commonly supplemented by a good deal of other information, including different kinds of rating scales, in order to make diagnostic as well as descriptive comments. The...

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Jura, M.B. (2017). Projective Tests of Personality. In: Volkmar, F. (eds) Encyclopedia of Autism Spectrum Disorders. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6435-8_476-4

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