Introduction to Rorscach PP #3

Question 1

4 Principles of Administration

Answer 1

1. Follow standardized procedures
2. The examiner is non-directive
3. Capture the client’s performance accurately.
4. Focus on what the client sees and how they see it.

Question 2

Two Phases of Rorscach

Answer 2

1. Response Phase (RP)
2. Clarification Phase (CP)

Question 3

Things Not to Say or Do

Answer 3

• Avoid saying “ambiguous” or “unstructured”
• Avoid saying there is no right or wrong answer.
• Avoid saying “most people…can or should. say or do something”
• Do not mislead the client into thinking that imagination or creativity is being tested.

Question 4

Clarification Phase

Answer 4

• Clarify key words and phases.
• Repeat responses verbatim.
• Write down what is said and note significant gestures.
• Be as non-directive as possible.
• Use visual language with client in the CP
• Focus your attention on key words or phrases from RP and CP.
• Avoid vague questions.
• Sometimes it is necessary to clarify whether an ambiguous verbalization is one ot two responses.

Question 5

Clarification Phase

Answer 5

• Don’t ask questions that don’t have purpose.
• Don’t ask too many questions.
• Don’t keep going after a score you “know” must be there.
• Don’t ask leading questions.

Question 6

Documentation

Answer 6

• Document enough that another person could code that record (using commonly know shorthand).
• Note orientation.
• Note prompts (PR) and (PU)
• Location on the location sheet during clarification.
• Put examiner comments/questions in parentheses.

Question 7

Coding Principles

Answer 7

• Code how client saw.
• Coding what is articulated and sometimes gestures.
• Code what is on the card, not something off the card.
• Code categories independent of each other.

Question 8

Coding

Answer 8

Code what is seen in the RP–ignore CP information that contradicts the RP.

• Coding competence is necessary to know what needs clarification.
• Coding problems are most often due to clarification problems.

Question 9

Inter-Rater Reliability

Answer 9

• Inter-rater agreement is a critical aspect of coding the Rorscach.

Question 10

Viglione, Blume-Marcovici, Miller, Giromini, and Meyer (2012)

Answer 10

Two graduate students independently coded 50 Rorscach protocols administered to adults and children.

RESULTS:
- Mean ICC of al 62 RPAS indicators = .88
(Std Deviation = .11; Median = .92)

Question 11

Evidence of Test-Retest Reliability

Answer 11

Children in elementary school.
- Took children of the classroom to help “train” examiners.

• Day 2 (3-4 days later)
  Control group: same directions
  Experimental group: give different responses.
• They did give different responses.
• 85% same responses in the control group
• 14% same responses in the experimental group.

Yet the correlations between the structural summary for each child was similar in each group.

Question 12

Overall Test-Retest Reliability

Answer 12

• Seems strong
• Inter-rater reliability seems to be good except for a few indicators.
• Coding book has been published with detailed guidelines covering how to code, presumably increasing those variables that showed lower inter-rate reliability.

Question 13

Reasons to Code Orientation

Answer 13

1. To help code FQ
2. To help interpret reflections

Question 14

SR code

Answer 14

Space is normally background but score SR if it becomes foreground.

Question 15

SI code

Answer 15

Space is articulated detail inside or integrating an ink part as well.

Question 16

Synthesis (SY)

Answer 16

Distinct and separate objects in a relationship.

Question 17

Vagueness (VG)

Answer 17

Objects with vague or indistinct outline or boundaries (no form demand) and no form added/injected.

Question 18

When do you code SI for colored areas identified as “white”?

Answer 18

Code SI, if the response is integrated with other parts of the blot.

Question 19

Extrapolation

Answer 19

FQ extrapolations must have the same shape, form features, and spatial orientation (not just content).

Question 20

Extrapolations for Single Objects

Answer 20

1. Search the FQ tables for responses with similar shapes. If straightforward, assign the FQ.
2. Search like areas.
3. Search subcomponents of an object.
4. Consider results and make a determination.

Question 21

Extrapolation for Multiple Objects

Answer 21

Score the lowest form quality of important components.

Question 22

Pairs (2)

Answer 22

Two identical objects symmetrical on each side of the blot midline.
- Must be identical in all respects.
- Often use 2 but sometimes use plural to covey this, or “a couple of”
- Don’t score pair when reflection is scored.

Question 23

Form Quality

Answer 23

• If a response has multiple objects, code the FQ of the material objects with the lowest FQ.
• FQ reflects conventional and accurate ways ot processing information.
• FQ tables are based on accumulated FQ tables and international sample.
• Based on:
  Fit and frequency.