PSY 662 - Integrative Assessment: Personality I and Lab

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This course provides students with an overview of the conceptual, theoretical, empirical, and psychometric issues in clinical assessment through self-report, actuarial, and narrative approaches to the psychological assessment of personality and psychopathology. Students will learn to administer, score, and interpret broadband measures, such as NEO Personality Inventory (NEO-PI-3), Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI-2/MMPI-A), the Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI/PAI-A), and narrow-band measures, such as the Beck Depression Inventory-II (BDI-II) and State/Trait Anxiety Inventory. The course also introduces students to the assessment of personality and psychopathology through the use of narrative methods such as the Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) and the Sentence Completion Series (SCS). In this course, students will also learn how to assess basic personality strengths and assets, to integrate data from clinical interviews, and to synthesize data from behavioral observations and mental status examinations. Moreover, the course teaches students to conceptualize personality from the perspective of multiple domains of functioning; to integrate cognitive/intellectual data; to compose summaries and case formulations; to formulate DSM-5 diagnostic impressions; to conceptualize treatment recommendations; to address unique referral questions; and to write integrative assessment reports based on the aforementioned sources of clinical data. Finally, this course will provide students with a framework for how to effectively organize and cross-validate findings for a comprehensive psychological assessment. This course includes a required lab. This course may not be transferred or waived, as it serves to prepare students for the Clinical Qualifying Examination - Assessment Competency. (Course was modified and is applicable to students entering in the 2019-20 AY or later.) Note: Offered only in the Spring term.

Prerequisites: PSY 661.