PSYC 5850

Psychological Assessment II: Children

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 children and to provide experience in administration, scoring, and interpretation of these as well as the application of psychometric principles (reliability, validity, standardization, etc.). Students successfully completing this course will be proficient in the administration and interpretation of the WISC-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 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