PSYC 5830

Psychological Assessment I: Adults

The aim of this course is to familiarize students with a variety of intelligence and personality assessment instruments commonly used in clinical mental health settings with adults and to provide experience in administration, scoring, and interpretation of these. Students successfully completing this course will be proficient in the administration and interpretation of the WAIS-IV, will be familiar with the most widely used tools for the assessment of psychological functioning, and will demonstrate basic competence in empirically supported decision-making as applied to psychological assessment tools and psychological report-writing. Psychometric theory and application to test construction/development, utilization, generalizability of results, and decision-making will also be emphasized.

Units: 3.0