This one-day Distance Learning Training prepares child welfare workers to make the best use of psychological testing information at key decision points.

Intake Caseworkers, Ongoing Caseworkers, Case Aides, Supervisors, and Mental Health Providers.

• Understand the basic components and controversies about psychological evaluations.
• Understand the distinction between objective and subjective approaches to assessment.
• Gain experience in writing specific referral questions and developing specific referral hypotheses when requesting psychological evaluations.
• Understand the role that client preparation plays in psychological assessment.
• Identify some commonly used psychological tests and assessment approaches used with children and adolescents.
• Apply major concepts related to the assessment of children or adolescents to his/her own case material.
• Understand that there are certain criteria by which a psychological report can be evaluated in terms of its quality and clinical usefulness.
• Identify the basic structure of the major objective instruments for assessing psychopathology in adults.
• Learn different approaches to sharing information with clients.
• Apply major concepts related to assessment covered thus far to his/her own case material.
• Identify rapid assessment tools as an adjunct to psychological assessment and/or caseworker behavioral evaluation.