628 Assessment II: Personality Assessment

Prerequisite: 627. This course will provide students with an overview of the conceptual, theoretical and empirical issues in the measurement of personality and psychopathology through examination of the reliability and validity of objective (actuarial) and projective methods of personality assessment. Students will learn to administer, score and interpret broad-band measures (e.g., MMPI-2, PAI, etc.), narrow-band measures (e.g., BDI-II, State/Trait Anxiety Inventory, etc), and the Rorschach Inkblot Test, as well as other projective measures (e.g., TAT, Sentence Completion, etc.) The course will also focus on the assessment of personality assets and strengths, criticisms of traditional approaches to personality assessment, and behavior assessment as an alternative to traditional approaches. (3 credits)