Students will practice counseling strategies with volunteer undergraduate clients, and in some cases, with community clients. All counseling sessions will be videotaped and discussed both in the large class and in supervision with the doctoral student supervisor. A Guide for Clinical Training , and Cormier and Hackney's Counseling Strategies and Interventions . Offered each Fall and Winter. ED 266B Cognitive Assessment in Professional Psychology T his course is part of a sequence of four assessment courses that are required as part of the school psychology credential specialization.
Students learn how to administer and interpret recently developed test of cognitive abilities.
Emphasis is placed on the relationship between clinical assessment tools and theories of intelligence. Social policy issues related to the use of intelligence tests are also addressed. Offered each Winter. This course trains graduate students in assessment of personality patterns for the purpose of making decisions about treatment, case management, and referral. Special emphasis is placed on the integration of assessment data from self-report inventories, projective, and clinical interviews with knowledge of base rates, the specific characteristics of the situation, and the psychometric properties of the test or tests.