Psychological Assessment
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Become a successful psychologist with ADL's experience!
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A comprehensive guide to the role of psychological assessments. Learn to determine why and when to use psychological assessment, and develop an understanding of the different types of assessment available (eg. Behavioural Assessment, Wechsler Intelligence and Memory Scales, Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, etc).
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About this course
Explain the main kinds of psychological tests and why they are used, and meaning of test reliability and validity
Explain ethical and other factors that constrain clinical assessment
Describe a structured and an unstructured interview
Explain behavioural assessment and how it can be conducted
Discuss Wechsler scales in detail
Explain the purpose and use of the Wechsler Memory Test
Explain the purpose and usage of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory
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There was an exceptionally decent envelope sitting tight for me on my arrival on Saturday: it was your bundle loaded with all the data and course work for my course. Much thanks to you, Amanda for your bundle: I was both extremely appreciative and exceptionally awed with what I got. I have begun with the Students Manual. This I observed it to be exceptionally compressive and enlightening. It is something that I will allude back to on many events. I am extremely thankful to you, Amanda, for the speed with which you managed my questions; genuinely refreshing with the bolster got in this way. From today I will concentrate on the coursework. I am truly anticipating it. Once more, much obliged for your support.
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I truly am awed with the way the course is going on and I anticipate whatever is left of it.
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I would jump at the chance to state the amount I have delighted in coaching from ADL. As you may recall that, I have coached for different universities already, and the UK accreditation arrangement of NCFE and their proportional organizations appears to have stupefied a lot of eductaion via distance mode, taking in nowadays. ADL appears to remain solitary in its estimations of the delight in learning, and self advancement rather than the disgorging learning material. I am certain your understudies welcome this.
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All courses are up to date
The average rating is higher than 3.7
More than 50 reviews in the last 12 months
This centre has featured on Emagister for 15 years
Subjects
- Testing
- Clinical Psychology
- Applied Psychology
- Intelligence Analysis
- Psychometrics
- Psychology
- Emotional Intelligence
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
- Depression
- Health Psychology
- Occupational Psychology
- Early childhood psychology
- Counselling
- Research
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Course programme
There are 7 lessons:
- Introduction
- What is psychological assessment
- Types of psychological tests
- Achievement tests
- Aptitude tests
- Intelligence tests
- Occupational tests
- Personality tests
- History of psychological testing
- Justification for using tests
- Advantages and disadvantages of using psychometric testing
- Ethnicity and different cultures
- Psychological testing of language minority and culturally different children
- Why your child should be tested
- Why it is important for parents to know about testing
- Validity and reliability
- Construct, discriminant and convergent validity
- Test retest reliability
- Context of Clinical Assessment
- Ethical practice
- Confidentiality
- Case study: confidentiality
- Informed consent
- Record keeping
- Dual relationships
- Professional boundaries
- Selecting tests
- Case study: ethics and lie detection
- Computer assisted assessment
- Virtual reality; new tool for psychological assessment
- Personality traits and designing a questionnaire
- Weaknesses
- Ambiguity and bias
- Closed and open questions
- The Assessment Interview
- The interview
- Screening for psychological disorders
- Structured and unstructured interviews
- SCID
- Assessing Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) among veterans
- Screening and referral procedure overview
- If patient refuses referral to mental health care
- Use of a primary care screen
- Discussing screening results with patients
- Discern if traumatic events are ongoing
- Making a recommendation
- Scheduling a follow up
- Psychomentric properties of SCID
- Behavioural Assessment
- Behaviourism
- Kinds of consequences
- Reinforcers
- Intrinsic and extrinsic reinforcers
- Consequences and timing
- The premack principle
- Extinction
- Criticisms of behaviourism
- Methods of behavioural assessment
- The focus of assessment
- Functional analysis
- Analysis of problem behaviour
- Motivational analysis
- Behavioural vs traditional assessment
- Wechsler Intelligence Scales
- Introduction
- Measuring intelligence
- Cognitive, cognitive contextural and biological theories
- Psychometric theories
- Wechsler Intelligence scales
- Normal results
- Sub tests, verbal subtests, performance subtests
- Cultural bias
- Precautions with intelligence testing
- The intelligence test as a tool
- Wechsler Memory scales
- Memory
- Wechsler Memory test
- Wechsler Memory Scale III
- Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory
- Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) Assessment
- Problems
- False negatives; false positives
- Each lesson requires the completion of an assignment which is submitted to the academy, marked by the academy's tutors and return
Accreditation:
This course is accredited by ACCPH and allows you to join as a professional member after completion. Membership allows you to add the letters MACCPH after your name (post-nominals).
Additional information
ASIQUAL
Psychological Assessment