This webinar series includes five 3.5-hour sessions aimed at enlivening principles from Evidence-Based Psychological Assessment (EBPA) in fostering fundamental knowledge, skills and attitudes in interpreting, conceptualizing and communicating psychological tests and assessment results.  The first session offers an overview of EBPA as it is applied in psychological report writing.  Intellectual functions and personality functions are covered in the second and third in the series.  The fourth session focuses on writing recommendations and formulating treatment plans.  The fifth focuses on ethically communicating assessment results in various contexts beyond psychological reports.  Participants can expect substantial lectures, enriching crItical discussions, and practical hands-on exercises in each of these sessions.  

Through a combination of lectures, critical discussion, and hands-on practice, this webinar aims to give an overview of the process of psychological report writing. Using the EBPA framework, general guidelines on integrating psychological assessment results and putting them together in a written report.  The workshop highlights the importance of writing a clear psychological evaluation report relevant to different referral questions and useful to various stakeholders.   There will likewise be discussions and critical analysis of the various challenges and issues, including ethical issues, in writing psychological reports.

This 3-hour webinar aims to elucidate the essential cognitive functions gleaned from results of common intelligence and ability tests.  It covers the interpretation of paper-and-pencil and individually-administered single scale (e.g., Standard Progressive Matrices (SPM), Test of General Reasoning Ability (TOGRA)) and full scale (e.g., Reynolds Adaptive Intelligence Test (RAIT), Wechsler Intelligence Scales, Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale) tests.

This 3.5-hour webinar aims to discuss how to conceptualize personality functioning test results and link them to the reason for referral and personal history of the client, as part of a psychological assessment.  Strategies on how to organize the key findings into themes will be elucidated.  Tips on how to write personality test functioning results to provide a better picture of the client’s current emotional and interpersonal functioning will also be discussed.  Exercises in putting it all together are included.

This 3.5-hour webinar aims to discuss the importance of relevant recommendations in a psychological screening report.  Identifying recommendations that are related to the reason for referral and test findings will be elucidated.  Strategies in developing individualized recommendations, writing them in a clear and concise manner, and organizing them as part of a psychological report will be included.  The utility of a psychological report in informing the development of a treatment plan will also be discussed.

This 3-hour webinar aims to walk the participants through the process of communicating psychological evaluation results to different stakeholders.  The webinar highlights the why, what, when, and how of feedback giving. What to do before, during, and after feedback and the relevant competences are likewise integrated in the webinar.