Distinguished Service & Contribution to Personality Assessment Award

A. Jordan Wright is a Clinical Associate Professor and Program Director of the combined Clinical/Counseling Psychology PhD program in the Department of Applied Psychology at NYU. He received his PhD in Clinical Psychology from Columbia University, as well as a master's in Psychology in Education from Teachers College, Columbia University. He is a diplomate of the American Board of Assessment Psychology (ABAP) and the American Board of Professional Psychology (ABPP) and a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA), Society for Personality Assessment (SPA), and the American Academy for Assessment Psychology (AAAP).

Jordan’s scholarship centers on two main areas, social justice/LGBTQIA+ psychology (including LGBTQ+ microaggressions) and psychological assessment. He has authored multiple widely-used books on psychological assessment, including Conducting Psychological Assessment: A Guide for Practitioners (2nd ed.; Wiley, 2020); Essentials of Psychological Tele-Assessment (with Susie Raiford; Wiley, 2021); Essentials of Psychological Assessment Supervision (Wiley, 2019); and, with Gary Groth-Marnat, the sixth edition of the Handbook of Psychological Assessment (Wiley, 2016), the most widely used text in graduate training on assessment. His most recent book just came out in October 2024, Essentials of Culture in Psychological Assessment, and he is working on the next edition of the Handbook of Psychological Assessment.