Personality Assessment

Catalog description

This course will highlight the theory of projective techniques and personality assessment in children, adolescents, and young adults. Training on the administration and interpretation of selected projective techniques and personality measures such as DAP, HTP, TAT, CAT/CAT-H, Incomplete Sentences, and kinetic family drawings, as well as personality inventories, behavior checklists and surveys, and adaptive scales will be emphasized. The administration, scoring, and writing of the Bender Gestalt Test of Visual-Motor Development will also be addressed in this course. Ego psychology as a theoretical framework will be infused into the class work. Observational skills, test administration, scoring, and report writing will be evaluated by both the professor and lab instructor. Student Liability Insurance and fieldwork are required. Prerequisites: CPSY 7501 and permission of instructor/program director. Concurrent enrollment in CPSY 8503 and CPSY 7502 /8502.