Come to beautiful Boston in July 2009 for a week of engaging learning and summer fun at MSPP. Pursue a week of morning classes in a subject area that will enrich your understanding and strengthen your professional skills. Enjoy all that Boston and environs has to offer. The afternoon and evenings are free and open for you and your family to enjoy Boston’s many historical, cultural and natural sites.
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Program Filled
Monday – Friday, July 20 – 24, 2009
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| Time: |
9:00 am – 12:00 pm |
| Program No: |
SE09 |
| CE Credits: |
15 CE Credits, or
2 Academic Credits*
*This program begins with the week of July 20 – 24: Monday – Friday, 9:00 am – 12:00 pm, that equals the CE credit program. For the academic credit option, participants will also attend Monday and Wednesday from 1:00 – 4:00 pm and on Friday from 1:00 – 3:00 pm. There will be an additional Saturday meeting on September 26, 2009. If you wish to enroll in the program for academic, rather than CE, credit contact the Registrar’s office for details and to complete the necessary paperwork for registration.
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| Tuition: |
For CE Credit $475
For Academic Credit $1,812
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| Instructor: |
Bruce M. Ecker, Ph.D. |
| Location: |
MSPP |
| Description: |
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, and 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
Thursday
- More on increasingly identified conditions.
- Introduction to Risk Assessment.
- 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.
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| Objective: |
N/A |
| Pre-Requisite: |
This course is suitable for school psychologists and clinical child/adolescent psychologists who conduct evaluations for schools. |
| To Register: |
PDF Registration Form; How to Register |
