Literature Review of Research and Practice in Collaborative Assessment

In contrast to traditional approaches, collaborative approaches to psychological assessment either engage the client throughout the assessment or ask for clients' feedback on the assessor's integrated impressions. The findings are thereby tailored to the clients' worlds. Many collaborative assessors regard the assessment process as transformative or therapeutic in its own right. In this article, we review early and recent literature advocating similar practices, related validity studies, and forms of providing impressions and feedback to clients. We present a brief excerpt of a report from a collaborative assessment and discuss literature on engaging in collaborative assessment within ongoing therapy.