School Psychology (MA/CAGS) Program

Course Descriptions

PA 600—Social-Emotional Assessment

3 credits

This course covers the history and use of personality measures used with children and adolescents. The focus is on assessing social, emotional, temperament, and personality aspects of the individuals. Students learn both projective techniques (e.g., drawings, structured story-telling, introduction to Rorschach) and objective measures (e.g., BASC, CBCL, developmental inventories, adaptive behavior scales, first-person personality inventories). Projective and objective measures are compared and contrasted with respect to value and appropriate use of each. Impact of cultural, language and socioeconomic factors are addressed. Supervised experience in social-emotional assessment is arranged through the concurrent Practicum III.

Updated 10/1/07