PSYCH 633BObservation, Interviewing and Cognitive Assessment

This full-year (fall and winter terms) course covers topics such as systems of clinical interviewing and observation, psychometric construction and use of self-report inventories and ability tests, principles of test interpretation and report writing, theories and measurement of intelligence, the conceptualizaiton and assessment of learning disabilities and other academic problems, and basic neuropsychology, as they apply to the clinical asessement of both children and adults. This course is a requirement for all first-year clinical graduate students. Only students in the Clinical Psychology program are permitted to take this course.