When the ink blots that Hermann Rorschach designed and created were first printed, he and his publisher Verlag Hans Huber – now known as Hogrefe Publishing - developed special printing processes and techniques to achieve the precise colours and shades he had conceived. Right up until the present day…

The d2 Test measures processing speed, rule compliance, and quality of performance, allowing for a neuropsychological estimation of individual attention and concentration performance. Originally developed to measure driving aptitude and efficiency, the d2 Test has become the mainstay of attentional …

The Family System Test (FAST) was developed at Stanford and the University of Zurich for use with both individuals and families. It is a figural technique, derived from clinical practice, for representing emotional bonds (cohesion) and hierarchical structures in the family or similar social systems.…

The PAS is the first ever scale for assessing the severity of panic disorder with or without agoraphobia. Compatible with both DSM-IV and ICD-10 classifications, and available in both self-related and observer-related versions, the PAS was specially developed for monitoring the efficacy of both drug…

The IRAOS is a semi-structured interview originally developed for the assessment of the onset and course of schizophrenia. The current, second version has been extended to encompass all psychotic disorders (affective and non-affective). It is fully compatible with the first version and has been supp…

The MDQ-R is a self-report personality measure with a framework that assesses 20 individual competencies across seven higher-order competency factors. Three of these factors are elements of management, and three are elements of leadership. The seventh emotional intelligence competencies underpin bot…

The Achievement Motivation Inventory (AMI) is a personality inventory designed to measure a broad construct of work related achievement motivation. It is founded on the theoretical work related to the German «Leistungsmotivationsinventar (LMI)» (Schuler & Prochaska, 2001) and enables users to test c…

The BIP® combines an assessment of both work style and motivation and was originally developed in Germany over 10 years ago following research into personality at work and with input from HR professionals. The UK standardisation was carried out in 2007 under the direction of Professor John Rust. The…

The FTT is a projective test that is based on 21 drawn cards of well-known fairy tale characters, for example, Little Red Riding Hood, Snow White, giant, witch, etc. In contrast to other thematic tests, the child is not required to tell a story or complete a story, but to answer directed questions a…

The EPS can be used to: identify and quantify healthy and unhealthy styles of emotional processing;assess the contribution of poor emotional processing to physical, psychosomatic and psychological disorders;provide a non-diagnostic framework to assess patients for research or therapy;measure changes…

Now in its 9th edition, the AMDP System is a widely used tool for documenting psychiatric symptoms in clinical and research projects. It is an essential part of many internal clinical documentation systems, and a valuable instrument for training in the identification of psychopathological symptoms.T…

The second edition of the highly successful German IDS which was first published in 2009, the IDS-2 provides information on the child’s strengths and developmental needs, thus painting a picture of where support is needed to help them achieve their full potential. Its flexible modular design is easi…