Therapy issues included program compliance issues, anger control, exploration of committing offenses, planning for life after incarceration, occasional crisis intervention. Brief psychological assessments involved MMPI-A interpretation, Wechsler Intelligence Scales, clinical interviews and review of institutional files. Full psychological assessments involved Wechsler Intelligence Scales, projectives such as the Rorschach and Thematic Apperception Test, MMPI-A interpretations, and more extensive clinical interviews. Observed substance abuse training groups. Attended weekly supervision.
Assessments involve administering IQ, cognitive, achievement, and behavioral measures.
Duties included collecting data from the instructors and parents. This information was incorporated into with additional psychosocial information into comprehensive reports. Assessments were conducted at the Mulitdisciplinary Center as well as within schools throughout the Florida panhandle. DIS consists of group observation of therapy session s by an experienced therapist, Sandy Kerr, Ph.D., at the FSU Psychology Clinic and was followed by group discussions. The experience includes group exploration of therapy and therapists issues at the FSU Psychology Clinic.