ABSTRACT
Accurate, efficient, even enjoyable scoring is key to both scientific clinical use of thematic apperceptive techniques (TATs) and the rapid production of research using structured scoring systems. Successful teaching and learning of low-inference structured scoring systems provides more systematic structure for the learning process than does teaching idiographically organized clinical TAT interpretation; these differ dramatically. Perhaps the best argument for structured systems is that they make learning good idiographic interpretation possible in less than 10 years. There will never be a substitute for 10 years’ experience, but structured systems give the clinician some skills to use productively meanwhile.
