Integrative Assessment

The course builds skills in integration of assessment data, communication of results toward answering a specific question, and development of treatment recommendations. This course provides training in the Integrative Assessments of patients seen in the students' diagnostic practicum. Topics covered include general principles and issues in Integrative Assessment and provides training in the integration of the results of cognitive/learning tests, objective personality/emotional tests, and projective tests with the relevant patient background data, clinical and behavioral presentation, family and social history, and the collateral data necessary to complete a comprehensive integrative assessment of the patient's psychosocial functioning and the development of evidence based recommendations. The class includes laboratories in which the analysis and the interpretation of the patient's domains of psychosocial functioning skills can be practiced.