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Pychological Testing Course
Pychological Testing Course
Varied testing methods such as TAT, MMPI, Ink Blots , Wonderlic Test, etc can be taught to assess these
aspects of a Person and gain an insight into his psychological makeup.
I have downloaded the following sample Course from the net. We can develop something on these lines:
Eg.
Psychological Assessment
Course Code BPS308
Fee Code S3
Duration (approx) 100 hours
Qualification Statement of Attainment
A psychological assessment is when a skilled psychologist uses the techniques and tools of
psychology to learn general or specific facts about another person, either to information others
how they function or to predict their behaviour and functioning in the future.
Assessment is usually for the point of diagnosis or classification. That is, placing a person into a
loosely or strictly defined category of people. This allows us to understand what they are like in
general and assess the presence of other relevant characteristics based on people similar to them.
Lesson Structure
There are 7 lessons in this course:
1. Introduction
o What is psychological assessment
o Types of psychological tests
o Achievement tests
o Aptitude tests
o Intelligence tests
o Occupational tests
o Personality tests
o History of psychological testing
o Justification for using tests
o Advantages and disadvantages of using psychometric testing
o Ethnicity and different cultures
o Psychological testing of language minority and culturally different children
o Why your child should be tested
o Why it is important for parents to know about testing
o Validity and reliability
o Construct, discriminant and convergent validity
o Test retest reliability
2. Context of Clinical Assessment
o Ethical practice
o Confidentiality
o Case study: confidentiality
o Informed consent
o Record keeping
o Dual relationships
o Professional boundaries
o Selecting tests
o Case study: ethics and lie detection
o Computer assisted assessment
o Virtual reality; new tool for psychological assessment
o Personality traits and designing a questionnaire
o Weaknesses
o Ambiguity and bias
o Closed and open questions
3. The Assessment Interview
o The interview
o Screening for psychological disorders
o Structured and unstructured interviews
o SCID
o Assessing Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) among veterans
o Screening and referral procedure overview
o If patient refuses referral to mental health care
o Use of a primary care screen
o Discussing screening results with patients
o Discern if traumatic events are ongoing
o Making a recommendation
o Scheduling a follow up
o Psychomentric properties of SCID
4. Behavioural Assessment
o Behaviourism
o Kinds of consequences
o Reinforcers
o Intrinsic and extrinsic reinforcers
o Consequences and timing
o The premack principle
o Extinction
o Criticisms of behaviourism
o Methods of behavioural assessment
o The focus of assessment
o Functional analysis
o Analysis of problem behaviour
o Motivational analysis
o Behavioural vs traditional assessment
5. Wechsler Intelligence Scales
o Introduction
o Measuring intelligence
o Cognitive, cognitive contextural and biological theories
o Psychometric theories
o Wechsler Intelligence scales
o Normal results
o Sub tests, verbal subtests, performance subtests
o Cultural bias
o Precautions with intelligence testing
o The intelligence test as a tool
6. Wechsler Memory scales
o Memory
o Wechsler Memory test
o Wechsler Memory Scale III
7. Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory
o Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) Assessment
o Problems
o False negatives; false positives
Each lesson culminates in an assignment which is submitted to the school, marked by the
school's tutors and returned to you with any relevant suggestions, comments, and if necessary,
extra reading.
Aims
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