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FM: Clinically meaningful rorschach index with minority children?
Author(s) -
Scott Ralph
Publication year - 1981
Publication title -
psychology in the schools
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.738
H-Index - 75
eISSN - 1520-6807
pISSN - 0033-3085
DOI - 10.1002/1520-6807(198110)18:4<429::aid-pits2310180411>3.0.co;2-4
Subject(s) - rorschach test , vignette , psychology , disadvantaged , index (typography) , borderline intellectual functioning , developmental psychology , test (biology) , intellectual disability , clinical psychology , social psychology , cognition , psychiatry , world wide web , computer science , law , biology , paleontology , political science
Recent court actions have spurred psychologists to develop improved assessment tools and to utilize diagnostic measures that take into consideration developmental and affective growth patterns of disadvantaged and minority youth. The present study, working through a case vignette, has weighed the possibility that the FM index may serve as a forerunner of abstract thinking, or the capacity to internalize imagery, which, in Rorschach theory, is, with older subjects, best illustrated in M. Findings also suggest that the Z (Organizational Activity) index may not be useful in evaluating intellectual potentials of preschool minority children. Following blind analysis of the Rorschach, replicative data were obtained through a social history and an individually‐administered ability test. Data from these sources support the major finding that FM may enable educational diagnosticians to estimate more accurately the intellectual capabilities of some preschool minority and other culturally disadvantaged children.