Are you a Clinical Psychologist?
Get first hand training on the Administration, Scoring and interpretation of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC), a gold standard used in intellectual assessment globally and across India for assessing children’s intellectual ability. Use the WISC-IVINDIA to obtain a valid and comprehensive profile of a child’s cognitive strengths and weaknesses, to ensure timely and appropriate intervention.
Features & Benefits:
– Culturally appropriate items
– Norms for Indian children
– Increased emphasis on composite scores
– More subtests
– Increased attention to Working Memory and Processing Speed
– More user-friendly administration and scoring
– Reflects current theory and practice in cognitive assessment of children
– Increased developmental appropriateness
– Improved psychometric properties
– Updated theoretical foundations
– Enhanced clinical utility
Applications:
- To obtain a comprehensive assessment of general cognitive functioning
- As part of an assessment to identify learning difficulties, giftedness and cognitive strengths and weaknesses.
- To guide treatment planning in clinical and educational settings
- For research purposes
Who can attend – M.Phil. and above in Clinical/Counselling Psychology.
About the Trainer:
Ms. Sandhya Shivakumar
M.Phil, PhD (Pursuing)
Sandhya Shivakumar is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist practicing at Mint Hospital, Adyar Chennai. She has completed her M.Phil in Clinical Psychology, prior to which she has also done double masters- from King’s College London and Women’s Christian College Chennai. She is currently pursuing PhD in the area of children’s mental focusing on the effect on gadget use on behaviour problems. With a work experience of 5 years, she has been actively engaged in research as well clinical practice. Her primary areas of interest include child mental health, parenting, and working with adults having depression, anxiety and relationship issues. She has completed foundational courses on cbt, ACT and Trauma focused therapy and also read extensively for continually updating herself in various therapeutic approaches. She is also associated with Pearson India as a consultant trainer.
