The Bender-Gestalt Test

Book : The Bender-Gestalt Test

Author : * Gerlad R.Pascal

Language : English

Library : Health-Safety-Environment

Publish Place : New York

Publish Date : May 1951

Publisher : Grune & Stratton

Book Type : Book

Book Number : 3899

INDEX


CONTENTS
FOREWORD by David G. Wright, M.D................
PART I: QUANTIFICATION 1. Introduction ........................

Historical review; theoretical approach.
2. Administration and Scoring...................................
Test administration;directions, precautions; scoring; development of scoring system, item analyses, weighting.
3. Reliability ........ ........................................
Scorer reliability, validity coefficients for two independent scorers; test reliability; effect of practice
4. Test Standardization........................ ................
Description of population; scores as a function of sex, drawing ability,I.Q., age, and education; standard (Z) scores.
5. Test Validity ...............................................
Validity studies on matched groups, using raw scores; validity, using standard scores-population 474 normal adults and 356 adult psychiatric patients; study of test scores and Wechsler-Bellevue scatter; study of prognostic indication from test scores; use of the Bender-Gestalt in following the course of electrocon-vulsive therapy; use of the Bender-Gestalt as a screening device.
PART II: CLINICAL USE OF THE BENDER-GESTALT TEST
6. Introduction ...................................... .........
7. The Records of Children and Those with Cortical Deficit .........
Records of children, discussion of the deviations in each of the designs; comparison of records of mental defectives and of individuals with cortical damage with the records of children.
8. The Bender-Gestalt Test and Psychogenic Disorders...............
Use of the Bender-Gestalt in clinical practice, discussion of high-scoring records, of low-scoring records, and of fluctuation of score on repetition of the test; some deviations as characteristic of diagnostic category.
Tables References
SCORING MANUAL
Introduction ...............................
Definitions and Evaluations of Scoring Deviations
Design 1 .............................
Design 2 .............................
Design 3 .............................
Design 4 ..................... .......
Design 5 .............................
Design 6 .............................
Design 7 .............................
Design 8 .............................
Configuration.........................
Score Sheets .......................
Atlas of Scored Records......................
INDEX.....................................