PSY-R6596 Personality and Behavior Assessment
In this residency, learners administer and score individual personality and behavior tests, focusing on the most recent versions of the Behavior Assessment System for Children (BASC); Achenbach System of Empirically Based Assessment (ASEBA), including the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL) and the Teacher Report Form (TRF); Conners (Conners); Kinetic Drawing System for Family and School (KDSFS); House-Tree-Person (H-T-P); Roberts; the Thematic Apperception Test (TAT); and sentence completion tests. Learners work individually and in small groups to provide written interpretation and oral case study presentations of the results gathered. Learners also gain skills in conducting clinical interviews; synthesizing and interpreting data from teacher, parent, and self-report behavior rating scales, as well as objective and projective techniques; and in scoring, interpreting, and integrating test results in order to make recommendations and write psychological reports. For PsyD in School Psychology learners only.