Establishing a Child’s Personality via the Projective Assessment Triad within the Four Levels of Mind
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Mental Levels of Mind, Personality, Projective Assessment TriadAbstract
In this short article, the author explained the theoretical basis for the need to establish a child’s personality using projective assessment triad within the context of the four mental levels of mind in terms of (i) conscious, (ii) preconscious, (iii) subconscious, and (iv) unconscious. The term projective assessment triad (PTA for short) used by the author refers to three different projective tests (e.g., projective drawing tests, incomplete sentence tests and word association tests) of personality, which according to Friedman and Schustack (2001), may involve some degree of ambiguity in the test instructions or stimuli in order to create opportunities for an examinee to structure his/her responses in terms of his/her individual personality characteristics. In this way, the examinee can provide authentic information about the nature of these characteristics.
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