Halperin J M, McKay K E
Psychology Department, Queens College of the City University of New York, Flushing, USA.
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 1998 Jun;37(6):575-84. doi: 10.1097/00004583-199806000-00007.
To provide a review of psychological tests often used with children and adolescents.
A description of how psychological tests are used and how to interpret various types of scores is provided. Subsequently, psychological tests used to assess intelligence, academic achievement, neuropsychological functions, and personality are reviewed.
There are numerous well-normed, reliable, and valid instruments that are available for assessing intellectual and academic functioning in children and adolescents. Neuropsychological tests, designed to assess objectively a wide range of cognitive functions, are available and extremely useful for designing treatment plans for patients with cognitive difficulties. Despite their popularity, most projective tests have relatively weak psychometric data supporting their reliability and/or validity.
Psychological testing provides objective measures of behavior that are of considerable utility for evaluating children and adolescents. However, psychological test data, in isolation, will rarely be adequate for providing a DSM diagnosis, and test scores are best interpreted in the context of other clinical data. Psychological test data can be very useful for developing a comprehensive treatment plan that addresses the patient's cognitive and emotional needs.
对常用于儿童和青少年的心理测试进行综述。
介绍心理测试的使用方式以及如何解读各类分数。随后，对用于评估智力、学业成就、神经心理功能和人格的心理测试进行综述。
有众多规范良好、可靠且有效的工具可用于评估儿童和青少年的智力及学业功能。旨在客观评估广泛认知功能的神经心理测试可供使用，且对为有认知困难的患者制定治疗计划极为有用。尽管投射测试很受欢迎，但大多数投射测试支持其信度和/或效度的心理测量数据相对薄弱。
心理测试为行为提供了客观测量，对评估儿童和青少年具有相当大的效用。然而，单独的心理测试数据很少足以做出精神疾病诊断与统计手册（DSM）诊断，测试分数最好结合其他临床数据进行解读。心理测试数据对于制定满足患者认知和情感需求的综合治疗计划非常有用。
