Projective assessments include such diverse tools as the Rorschach Inkblot Test, Thematic Apperception Test, Roberts-2, story telling, figure drawings, and sentence completion tasks. Many contemporary assessment researchers prefer the term “performance-based assessment” in order to more accurately capture the nature of the task. Although there is a wide array of projective tests and techniques available, they are similar in so far as they require a patient to respond to some type of open-ended prompt, cue, or stimulus. Projectives are quite commonly used by clinical and school psychologists to assess their child and adolescent clients’ personality style, feelings, cognitive processes, emotional distress, and global psychological functioning [1, 2].
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