Sumaya Laher, Kate Cockcroft, Zaytoon Amod, Katherine Bain, Fatima Bhabha, Marita Brink, Nicoleen Coetzee, Marie de Beer, Gideon de Bruin, Diana de Sousa, Fiona Donald, David Edwards, Emma-Kate Gaylard, Renate Gericke, Kirston Greenop, Deidre Heafield, Lorna Jacklin, Tina Joubert, Anil Kanjee, Kathy Knott, Marilyn Lucas, Mary McMahon, Karen Milner, Yvonne Oosthuizen, Ruksana Osman, Rabia Patel, Cas Prinsloo, Sarah Radloff, Jessica Rice, Joseph Seabi, Ann Shuttleworth-Edwards, Nicola Taylor, Terence Taylor, Andrew Thatcher, Linda Theron, Nanette Tredoux, Adele van der Merwe, Rene van Eeden, Phia van Tonder, Nadene Venter, Mark Watson, Victoria Whitefield-Alexander, Charles Young Psychological Assessment in South Africa

Annotation

This book provides an overview of the research related to psychological assessment across South Africa. The thirty-six chapters provide a combination of psychometric theory and practical assessment applications in order to combine the currently disparate research that has been conducted locally in this field. Existing South African texts on psychological assessment are predominantly academic textbooks that explain psychometric theory and provide brief descriptions of a few testing instruments. Psychological Assessment in South Africa provides in-depth coverage of a range of areas within the broad field of psychological assessment, including research conducted with various psychological instruments. The chapters critically interrogate the current Eurocentric and Western cultural hegemonic practices that dominate the field of psychological assessment. The book therefore has the potential to function both as an academic text for graduate students, as well as a specialist resource for professionals, including psychologists, psychometrists, remedial teachers and human resource practitioners.