Intended for use as a supplementary text in courses on assessment and related fields, the text discusses the following: introduction to psychological assessment; current conceptions of intelligence and their implications for assessment; assessment in the study of creativity; interpreter's syllabus for the California Psychological Inventory; the Tryon, Stein and Chu Scales; the outcome of a cluster analysis of the 550 Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory items; and the Strong Vocational Interest Blank from 1927 to 1967. Also included are the current status of the Rorschach test, an assessment of psychodynamic variables by the Blacky pictures, operant conditioning techniques in psychological assessment, assessing change in hospitalized psychiatric patients, problems and trends in the assessment of counseling and psychotherapy, conjoint family assessment as an evolving field, a survey of techniques in assessing anxiety, and rationale and problems of psychophysiological assessment. (LE)