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PSYCHOLOGY 711: PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSESSMENTUnit Index Numbers: 309516Tuition Pattern: Seminar, 3 hours/weekCredit Points: 25Unit Requisites: Admission to Master ofPsychology or PhD Counsellingcourse or permission of the UnitCoordinatorUnit Coordinator Dr Melissa Davis(9266 2601) Room: 401.330email: m.davis@curtin.edu.auLecturerAs aboveSyllabusThis unit provides students with the practical skills to complete comprehensive psychologicalassessments within adult and child clinical contexts. Students will learning skills required to select,administer, score and interpret the results of commonly used psychological tests, and to integrateassessment results and present findings in client-focused reports.Learning OutcomesOn successful completion of this unit students can:1. Integrate a number of assessment strategies in the completion of comprehensive psychologicalassessments.2. Administer, score, and/or interpret the some of the most frequently used tests of intellectualfunctioning, personality and psychological/emotional symptoms in adults and/or children.3. Present an integrated summary of test results in a client-focused, problem-oriented report.Unit Outline1 The art, science and ethics of psychological assessment2 Assessment of Adult Intellectual Functioning I3 Assessment of Adult Intellectual functioning II4 The Assessment report5 Assessment of children and adolescents I6 Assessment of Children and adolescents II7 Assessment of Personality I8 Assessment of Personality II9 Assessment of clinical severity and change10 Assessment of older adults11 Assessment with Indigenous clients12 Projective assessment40<strong>Curtin</strong> <strong>University</strong> is a trademark of <strong>Curtin</strong> <strong>University</strong> of Technology.CRICOS Provider Code 00301J (WA), 02637B (NSW)

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