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Feeding Assessment and Intervention

Do you work with kids on the “preschool diet”? In other words, eating mostly white and brown foods, with little variation or color? Maybe you work with kids with more serious medical concerns requiring a G-tube or with a diagnosis of Failure to Thrive? The realm of diet and eating can be hard to navigate, so in this interview Dr. Jeremy Sharp sits down with Dr. Lani Jones, a nationally-recognized speaker and licensed psychologist, to talk all about feeding issues in little ones. Here are just a few things that they touched on:

  • The two questions to ask in order to determine whether kids’ eating habits are “normal”
  • The process for a feeding evaluation
  • Which professionals you need to have on your referral list to make sure these kids are being supported
  • Which diagnoses tend to see the most overlap with feeding issues

Interview Conducted: 4/2020

Target audience:  Psychologists, mental health counselors, marriage and family therapists, addiction counselors, nurses.

This course does not offer ASWB ACE CE credit to social workers.

CE category: Clinical/Testing/Assessment

Format: Asynchronous, distance learning. Non-interactive. Recorded audio with transcript.

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Interview with Dr. Lani Jones

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Remote Administration of the WISC-V & KTEA-III

Join Dr. Jeremy Sharp and Dr. Susie Raiford as they talk through the ins and outs of remote assessment, or telepractice, with the WISC-V and KTEA.  They spend the first part of the interview talking through the research on telepractice, covering topics like equivalency, norming, and equating as they evaluate different modes of test administration. The conversation then shifts to practical guidelines for administering the WISC-V and KTEA remotely.

Interview Date: 4/2020

Target audience: Psychologists, mental health counselors, marriage and family therapists, addiction counselors, nurses.

This course does not offer ASWB ACE CE credit to social workers.

Content Category: Testing/Assessment/Clinical

Format: Asynchronous, distance learning. Non-interactive. Recorded audio with transcript.

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Interview with Dr. Susie Raiford

This CE program is designated as intermediate.

This interview was published in April of 2020.

Conflict of Interest: Dr. Susie Raiford is a senior research director at Pearson

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Criminal and Civil Competency

In this interview, Dr. Emin Gharibian, talks with Dr. Sharp about assessing criminal and civil competency. There is much to be gleaned from this very interesting discussion, not just because of the topic, but because Dr. Gharibian breaks things down in an easy-to-understand way-a way that will leave the listener ready to venture into the world of competence assessment. Here are just a few things covered in the conversation:

  • The difference between competency and insanity assessments
  • Definition of criminal competence
  • Assessing malingering and poor effort in competency
  • Why assessing criminal competency is easier than some other forms of assessment
  • The difference between criminal and civil competency

Target audience: Psychologists, mental health counselors, marriage and family therapists, social workers, addiction counselors, nurses.

Content Category: General/Testing/Assessment

This CE program is designated as beginner.

There is no known conflict of interest or commercial support.

Format: Asynchronous, distance learning. Non-interactive. Recorded audio with transcript.

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Interview with Dr. Emin Gharibian

This interview was published in February of 2020.

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Criminal Justice Assessments: Sex Offenders & Intimate Partner Violence

Could you sit in the same room as someone accused of murder? Determine competency of a 10-year-old child? Take a thorough history of sexually explicit crimes? This is Dr. Brenna Tindall’s life.

In this two part interview, Dr. Brenna Tindall talks with Dr. Jeremy Sharp about assessing and treating intimate partner violence and sexual violence. This interview dives deep into how these concepts overlap and examines the relatively small amount of research in this area. For those of you in the forensic arena, and anyone else interested in violent behavior within relationships, this is a must-listen. Here are just a few topics covered in the interview…

  • How to assess intimate partner violence and sexual violence
  • Why it’s important to separate the two
  • Statistics on incidence and co-occurrence of intimate partner violence and sexual violence
  • Recommendations for offenders/perpetrators of intimate partner violence and sexual violence

Target audience: Psychologists, mental health counselors, marriage and family therapists, social workers, addiction counselors, nurses.

Format: Asynchronous, distance learning. Non-interactive. Recorded audio with transcript.

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Interview with Brenna Tindall

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Interview with Brenna Tindall

Content Category: General; Testing/Assessment

This CE course is designated as intermediate.

This interview was published in February of 2018.

There are no known conflicts of interest or commercial support to disclose.

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Ethical and Legal Issues in Assessment

How many times have you run into challenging or ambiguous ethical situations and looked around your office, wishing an attorney would appear to answer all of your questions? For most, it seems countless. Dr. Amanda Zelechoski doesn’t answer ALL the questions that have ever come up, but she came really close in this engaging interview! As a dual attorney-psychologist and risk management consultant for The Trust, Dr. Zelechoski has a unique, insider’s perspective on legal and ethical concerns for psychologists (specifically for those in testing), but much of the information that she shared can be helpful to anyone practicing in the mental health field. Here are just a few topics covered in this interview:

  • Court orders vs. subpoenas
  • Test data vs. test materials – what should we release?
  • How to respond to negative online reviews
  • What client information should we share in an online forum?

Target audience: Psychologists, mental health counselors, marriage and family therapists, addiction counselors, nurses.

Format: Asynchronous, distance learning. Non-interactive. Recorded audio with transcript

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Interview with Dr. Amanda Zelechoski

Content Category: Ethics/Testing/Assessment

This course does not offer ASWB ACE CE credit to social workers.

This CE course is designated as beginner level.

This interview was published in October of 2019.

Potential Conflict of Interest: Dr. Zelechoski is the co-author of Activities for Teaching Psychology and Law: A Guide for Instructors

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The Rorschach Performance Assessment System (R-PAS)

The Rorschach has been a source of mystery and debate in our field for decades now. As someone who went through grad school at a time when the Rorschach had fallen out of favor, Dr. Sharp doesn't use it and knows very little about it. That’s why he is so grateful to talk with Dr. Joni Mihura, co-author/developer of the Rorschach Performance Assessment System (R-PAS).

The R-PAS has come to be regarded as the most current set of norms and administration guidelines for the Rorschach, and Joni shares a wealth of knowledge not only on the R-PAS but the Rorschach in general. Here are just a few things discussed in the interview:

  • The history of the Rorschach
  • The state of the Exner scoring system
  • Key differences between the comprehensive system and the R-PAS
  • Clinical utility for the Rorschach

Target audience: Psychologists, mental health counselors, marriage and family therapists, addiction counselors, nurses.

This course does not offer ASWB ACE CE credit to social workers.

Format: Asynchronous, distance learning. Non-interactive. Recorded audio with transcript.

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Interview with Dr. Joni Mihura

Content Category: Testing/Assessment/Clinical

Potential Conflict of Interest: Dr. Mihura is the co-editor of Using the Rorschach Performance Assessment System (R-PAS) and the Handbook of Gender and Sexuality in Psychological Assessment—and the co-developer of a new Rorschach system, the Rorschach Performance Assessment System (R-PAS), for which she presents invited lectures and trainings internationally.

This CE course is designated as beginner level.

This interview was published in September of 2019.

 

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Early Identification of Psychosis

How many of us have been in a clinical interview and wondered, “Could this be a thought disorder?” Sometimes it’s unclear which symptoms are worth concern and which ones are more typical. Dr. Sharp's guest, Dr. Michelle Friedman-Yakoobian, has been conducting research and practice with psychotic disorders and prodromal states for nearly her entire academic career.   In this interview Dr. Sharp and Dr. Friedman-Yakoobian discuss:

  • When should we really start assessing for psychosis?
  • How to separate OCD from delusions or hallucinations?
  • The CEDAR Clinic’s standard battery for assessing psychotic symptoms
  • Treatment recommendations for high-risk individuals

Target audience: Psychologists, mental health counselors, marriage and family therapists, social workers, addiction counselors, nurses.

Format: Asynchronous, distance learning. Non-interactive. Recorded audio with transcript.

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Interview with Dr. Friedman-Yakoobian

Content Category: Clinical/Testing/Assessment

This CE course is designated as intermediate.

There is no known conflict of interest or commercial support.

This interview was published in September of 2019.

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