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Psychodiagnostics and Psychological Assessment

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Course Summary

This course covers the basics of psychodiagnostics, including how to assess and diagnose mental health disorders. It provides an introduction to the field for those interested in pursuing a career in psychology or related fields.

Key Learning Points

Learn how to assess and diagnose mental health disorders
Understand the basics of psychodiagnostics
Gain an introduction to the psychology field

Job Positions & Salaries of people who have taken this course might have

Clinical Psychologist
- USA: $76,000
- India: ₹550,000
- Spain: €30,000
Mental Health Counselor
- USA: $44,000
- India: ₹300,000
- Spain: €20,000
Psychiatric Nurse
- USA: $70,000
- India: ₹500,000
- Spain: €26,000

Learning Outcomes

Understand the basics of psychodiagnostics
Learn how to assess and diagnose mental health disorders
Gain an introduction to the psychology field

Prerequisites or good to have knowledge before taking this course

Basic knowledge of psychology
Interest in mental health and diagnosis

Course Difficulty Level

Intermediate

Course Format

Online
Self-paced
Video lectures
Quizzes

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Description

The course focuses on:

• the formation of an adequate representation about the diversity of contemporary Psychodiagnostics and Assessment methods; • deep learning of the current world ethical standards of psychological diagnostics and assessment activity; • technology of test reliability determination that obtained by different Psychodiagnostics methods; • studying of classical and contemporary intellect diagnostic approaches, Psychodiagnostics of personality characteristics, talent potential and achievements potential of the person. The course will make it easy: 1. To master the technology of getting “informed consent” with a client about Psychodiagnostics and assessment procedure. 2. To assess the compliance of the proposed Psychodiagnostics programs with the final testing objectives. 3. To understand the variety of ways to assess different characteristics of a person. 4. To understand the possibilities of Psychodiagnostics of this or that characteristic of a person with use of various diagnostic techniques. 5. To be able to determine the level of reliability of the received diagnostic data. The course consists of 5 modules. Every module’s broken into 4-6 topics with some tasks and additional literature.

Outline

Welcome to the Course
Psychodiagnostics and Assessment_promo
About National Research Tomsk State University
About the course team
Entering questionnaire

Psychodiagnostics as a Science
1.1. Goals and Objectives of the Psychodiagnostics Course
1.2. Historical Background of Contemporary Psychodiagnostics
1.3. The Object and Features of Contemporary Psychodiagnostics
1.4. Comparative Characteristic of Psychological Diagnostics and Assessment
1.5. Ethical Issues and Dilemmas of Psychodiagnostics
1.6. Current International Standards Psychologist - Psychodiagnostic Activity
Recommended readings – Module 1
Quiz – Module 1

General Psychodiagnostics and Psychometriсs
2.1. Homotheticity and Ideographic Approach of Contemporary Psychodiagnostics
2.2. Classification of Diagnostic Methods
2.3. The Structure of Psychological Tests
2.4. Psychological Tests Reliability
2.5. Psychological Tests Validity
2.6. The Representativeness and Types of the Diagnostic Norms
Recommended readings – Module 2
Quiz – Module 2

Psychodiagnostics of Intelligence
3.1. Diagnostic of Specific Mental Abilities
3.2. Intelligence Tests
3.3. Achievement Tests
3.4. Creativity Tests
3.5. Diagnostics of Emotional, Social and Ethical Intelligence
Recommended readings – Module 3
Quiz – Module 3

Traditional Psychodiagnostics of Personality
4.1. Methods of Collecting Personal Characteristics Empirical Data
4.2. Traditional Dimensional Approach in Psychodiagnostics
4.3. Typological Approach to Personality Diagnostics
4.4. Projective Techniques
4.5. Substructural Approach to Personality Diagnostics
Recommended readings – Module 4
Quiz – Module 4

Integrative Approach in Psychodiagnostics
5.1. Diagnostics of Talent Potential
5.2. Interpersonal Communication Approach to Psychodiagnostics
5.3. Group Technique of Psychodiagnostics
5.4. The Narrative Approach to Personality Diagnostics
Recommended readings – Module 5
Final questionnaire
Quiz – Module 5

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