This course will consider current research as well as advanced practice concepts and skills for school psychologists and clinical child/adolescent psychologists who conduct evaluations for schools. Topics include a review of recently published measures, the integration of social-emotional and cognitive/neuropsychological findings, careful approaches to the assessment of conditions such as Bipolar Disorder, autism spectrum disorders, ADHD, sensible integration of objective and projective data, the interface between DSM-IV and special education regulations, and writing useful reports. There is ample use of case examples. Participants may opt to augment this course with a six-hour module on
DSM-IV diagnoses with children and adolescents.

Monday
Course Overview, planning assessments, report-writing • An integrated model: The relationships between thinking, affect and action • DSM-IV, special education eligibility and social maladjustment: parallel or intersecting planes?

Tuesday
A review of new and interesting measures: the Personality Inventory for Youth, the Adolescent Psychopathology Scale, the Conners-III and others • Integration of objective and projective data

Wednesday
Assessment of externalizing disorders: Conduct problems, ADHD, others • Assessment of internalizing disorders: Anxiety and Mood • Assessment of increasingly identified
conditions: Bipolar Disorder, autism spectrum disorders, Reactive Attachment Disorder

Thursday
More on increasingly identified conditions • Integrating social-emotional data with cognitive/neuropsychological data

Friday
Whose purpose is being met?: A humane assessment process • Formulation and report-writing revisited: Writing useful reports • Systems Issues