PSY 663 - Integrative Assessment: Personality II 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 the use of the Rorschach Performance Assessment System (R-PAS). Students will learn to administer, score, and interpret this evidence-based, performance-based personality measure. Specifically, the course will prepare students to derive both nomothetic and idiographic findings about an individual’s personality functioning, including signs of psychopathology and wellness, using norm-referenced R-PAS data, content analysis of thematic data in Rorschach responses, and through sequence analysis. 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 actuarial data from self-report personality tests, as well as from cognitive/intellectual tests. The course continues to emphasize the many foci of PSY 662, including composing summaries and case formulations, formulating DSM-5 diagnostic impressions, conceptualizing treatment recommendations, addressing unique referral questions, and writing integrative assessment reports based on the aforementioned sources of clinical data. This course continues to 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 Summer term.

Prerequisites: PSY 662.