Introduction to the Rorschach Performance Assessment System For Those with Prior Rorschach Experience

Price: $360.00
Friday, June 13,  2014 & Saturday, June 14, 2014
8:45am - 5:00pm
13 CE credit hours


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Alliant International University
1000 South Fremont Avenue, Unit 5
Los Angeles, CA


This practical two-day workshop is designed to prepare participants to use the Rorschach Performance Assessment System (R-PAS) in applied settings and research.  This workshop focuses on the development of proficiency in coding and administration, and provides a basic introduction to interpretation. Participants should have previous experience with Rorschach-based assessment.

The workshop begins with a delineation of the key administration, inquiry/clarification, coding, calculation, and normative difference between the Comprehensive System and R-PAS.  Training in the subtleties of proper administration, inquiry and coding follow and continue into the second day.  Attendees will have an opportunity to practice coding.  On the afternoon of the second day, the practical features of R-PAS interpretation are illustrated by applying the system to a clinical case.  Participants will also be introduced to the new child norms and the online computer system and resources.

More than 90 years since its introduction, the Rorschach remains of the most powerful methods for studying personality in action, but it is time to bring it into the 21st century.  R-PAS is a new, evidenced focused Rorschach system based on the latest available research.  It emphasizes those aspects of test performance that have strongest empirical foundation, the most transparent connections with underlying psychological processes, the greatest utility as rated by experienced Rorschach users, and the most reliable normative comparisons.  This approach is based on an appreciation of the Rorschach task providing a sample of behavior that allows one to base personality inferences on performance.
 

To best prepare for the R-PAS Basic Workshop, it is helpful if attendees read Chapters 1, 2, and 3 in the R-PAS Manual  (The Rorschach Performance Assessment System, Administration, Coding, Interpretation and Technical Manual, Meyer, Viglione, Mihura, Erard, & Erdberg, 2011).

The manual is
available at the R-PAS website (www.r-pas.org).  After registering for the workshop a 10% discount code will be forwarded to you so that you can order it. You will also be eligible for an R-PAS account, and one free online scoring and processing of the Rorschach protocol.

Following is a schedule for this four-day workshop.  

Day 1 – 8:45 AM -- Registration, Class 9:00am-5:00pm

Morning  -- Introduction & Rational/R-PAS Distinctive Features

Afternoon -- R-PAS Distinctive Features/Coding & Clarification Training

Day 2 –  9:00am-5:00pm

            Morning -- Coding Training/Calculations & Normative Foundation

Afternoon -- Introduction to Interpretation/Case


Faculty – Both Dr. Erdberg and Dr. Viglione are members of the R-PAS development team and co-authors of the R-PAS Manual.

Philip Erdberg PhD, ABPP -- Dr. Erdberg is a diplomate in clinical psychology of the American Board of Professional Psychology.  He is a past-president of the Society for Personality Assessment, the 1995 recipient of the Society's Distinguished Contribution Award, and the 2001 recipient of the Outstanding Achievement Award of the Forensic Mental Health Association of California.  Dr. Erdberg is on the faculty of the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis and is an associate clinical professor at the University of California-San Francisco School of Medicine.

Donald Viglione Ph.D., ABAP -- Dr. Viglione is a Distinguished Professor at the California School of Professional Psychology at Alliant International University and past director of both the Ph.D. and Psy.D. programs in clinical psychology there.  He has more than 30 years of experience teaching the Rorschach and has more than 60 publications.  His assessment research focuses on the Rorschach and includes work on malingering, trauma, violence, child, and psychometric issues.  He has offered Rorschach workshops internationally and is a Fellow of the Society for Personality Assessment. 
 
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