Adler School of Professional Psychology Catalog 2008 – 2009

725 Neuropsychological Intervention Techniques 3 Credits
The course introduces students to neuropsychological intervention strategies,
such as neurocognitive rehabilitation, based on a thorough assessment of the
client’s neuropsychological strengths and weaknesses. Invention strategies for
various neuropsychological disorders, including deficits in memory, attention,
language, visual-spatial, and executive functions are considered.
726-727 Neuropsychology Practicum 1 Credit per term
Prerequisites: 601-606, 611-616, 624, 627, 628, 636, 648 or 649, 720.
Concurrent with 722 and 724, an 800 clock hour advanced clinical practicum
that provides experience in the administration, scoring and interpretation of
neuropsychological assessment techniques under the supervision of a licensed
neuropsychologist. Students learn to develop a test battery based on a given
referral question, and to integrate their findings to answer this question and to
provide useful and clinically relevant recommendations. This may not be
transferred or waived.
728 Pediatric Neuropsychological Assessment 3 Credits
This course provides training in the neuropsychological assessment of children,
with an emphasis on trauma and developmental disorders. An array of
neuropsychological instruments is used. Students develop skills in the
administration, scoring, contextual interpretation and write-up of pediatric
neuropsychological assessment methods.
732 Advanced Personality Assessment: Special Topics 3 Credits
Prerequisites: 627, 628, 624. This course covers advanced issues in the
assessment of personality using self-report and performance-based measures,
including the Rorschach Inkblot Test, MMPI-2, MCMI-III, PAI, TAT and other
measures. The course also explores the utility of personality testing in forensic
evaluations, the differential diagnosis of thought disorder, and the appraisal of
object relations. Additionally, the course covers new, innovative, and
empirically-based, approaches to assessing adult personality. The course also
emphasizes the historical roots of personality assessment within the broader
realm of psychological assessment and highlights its pertinent place in
contemporary clinical psychology. Adlerian, psychodynamic, phenomenological,
social-cognitive, and constructivist theories provide the theoretical
underpinnings for case conceptualization.
735 Mind-Body Health I 3 Credits
Behavioral medicine is a multi-disciplinary field on which psychology, public
health, epidemiology, medicine, public policy, and other health related
professions intersect to promote emotional and physical well being. This course
provides an overview of assessment, intervention and current research on the
psychological mediators of health and illness from a behavior health
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