1st Edition
The Crisi Wartegg System (CWS) Manual for Administration, Scoring, and Interpretation
Chapter 1: History and Development of the Crisi Wartegg System
Jacob A. Palm & Alessandro Crisi
Chapter 2: Statistical Foundations of the Crisi Wartegg System
Jacob A. Palm & Alessandro Crisi
Chapter 3: Administration
Chapter 4: Evocative Character
Chapter 5: Scoring
Chapter 6: Computation
Chapter 7: Diagnostic Interpretation
Chapter 8: Conceptualization
Appendices
Index
Biography
Alessandro Crisi is an Italian psychologist who lives in Rome where he works as a private professional and teaches at the Sapienza University of Rome. He has written numerous articles and book chapters, and presented at many professional conferences.
Jacob A. Palm is a licensed clinical psychologist, and founder of the Southern California Center for Collaborative Assessment in Long Beach, California. Dr. Palm is the United States representative of the Istituto Italiano Wartegg.
This text is the quintessential resource for psychological assessors who wish to incorporate the Crisi Wartegg system of scoring and interpreting the Wartegg Drawing Completion Test into their resource bank of personality assessment instruments. It comprehensively describes the stages of implementing the Crisi Wartegg System from scoring through interpretation in children, adolescents, and adults, and provides a thorough exposition of the rapidly expanding research base for this enormously useful tool. Assessors from neophyte to expert will derive immeasurable benefit from welcoming this book into their libraries.
Virginia M. Brabender, Ph.D., ABPP
Professor, Widener University
Crisi and Palm’s The Crisi Wartegg System is an eloquent, comprehensive step-by-step guide to the administration, scoring, and interpretation of a very important but underappreciated psychological test. Rich in theory, research, and historical context, this book should be required reading for practicing clinicians and researchers alike.
Robert F. Bornstein, PhD
Professor of Psychology, Adelphi University
This book is a monumental gift to psychological assessment! It integrates the large body of research on the Wartegg Drawing Completion Test into a system (the Crisi Wartegg System) that is then itself thoroughly considered and researched. The result is a reliable, valid, and enormously useful performance-based measure that rivals the Rorschach Inkblot Method. The book is a well-organized, detailed, and accessible guide to administration, scoring, and interpretation, including instructive examples. The CWS will play a large role in the future of assessment.
Hale Martin, Ph.D.
Clinical Professor, University of Denver
