Personality Assessment of the Prelingual, Profoundly Deaf Child or Adolescent

Personality assessment of children and adolescents experiencing an early, profound hearing loss is hampered by the lack of instruments standardized and/or developed primarily for use with deaf clients. Further compounding the problem are the relatively few psychologists trained in and/or experienced...

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Veröffentlicht in:Journal of personality assessment 1991-02, Vol.56 (1), p.118-129
Hauptverfasser: Cates, Jim A., Lapham, Robert F.
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:Personality assessment of children and adolescents experiencing an early, profound hearing loss is hampered by the lack of instruments standardized and/or developed primarily for use with deaf clients. Further compounding the problem are the relatively few psychologists trained in and/or experienced with deaf personality assessment. This article reviews the rudimentary requirements for personality assessment with the deaf and critiques the available personality tests that are either used or useable in assessing the deaf.
ISSN:0022-3891
1532-7752
DOI:10.1207/s15327752jpa5601_11