Dyer Frank J
Private Practice, Montclair, NJ, USA.
Psychol Rep. 2018 Feb;121(1):4-25. doi: 10.1177/0033294117718556. Epub 2017 Jul 11.
The article presents a completely empirical approach to using drawings and associations as a supplemental tool in forensic psychological assessment. The present system represents a modern alternative to prior theory-driven "projective technique" approaches that have failed to pass scientific scrutiny. Using an archival sample of 252 forensic cases, House-Tree-Person drawing protocols were scored according to preliminary test items developed from published handbooks, academic courses, and workshops on the use of drawings and related associations for assessment. Intermediate test items were selected according to their being significantly correlated with at least one external psychometric, behavioral, or clinical variable. Psychometric and editorial considerations guided the development of a final set of 66 test items. A "flagged for pathology" approach demonstrated modest convergent and discriminant validity for the final set of test items against clinical criteria on an independent sample of 150 cases of the same type used in the preliminary item development phase. Included are sample items and discussion of psychometric issues in working with this class of data.
本文介绍了一种完全基于实证的方法，即将绘画和联想用作法医心理评估的辅助工具。当前系统是对先前理论驱动的“投射技术”方法的现代替代，那些方法未能通过科学审查。利用252个法医案例的档案样本，根据从已出版的手册、学术课程以及关于使用绘画和相关联想进行评估的研讨会中开发的初步测试项目，对房屋-树木-人物绘画协议进行评分。根据中间测试项目与至少一个外部心理测量、行为或临床变量显著相关这一标准来选择这些项目。心理测量和编辑方面的考虑指导了最终66个测试项目集的开发。一种“标记为病理学”的方法在针对初步项目开发阶段使用的150个相同类型独立案例样本的临床标准方面，对最终测试项目集显示出适度的收敛效度和区分效度。文中包含样本项目以及处理此类数据时心理测量问题的讨论。
