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 an 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: Clinical Psychologists & students of psychology
Training Agenda:
10am to 3pm
| 10:00 am to 10:30 am | Introduction to Intelligence, tests & history of Weschler scale |
| 10:30 am to 11:00 am | Structure of WISC, purpose, general guidelines for administration and applications |
| 11.00 am to 11:10 am | Break |
| 11.10 am to 12.30 pm | WISC tests (1-10), introduction, understanding what it measures, scoring rules & administration of the subtests |
| 12:30pm to 1:15pm | Lunch Break |
| 1:15pm to 1:30pm | Additional Tests in WISC |
| 1.30 pm to 2.30 pm | Scoring & Interpretation |
| 2.30 pm to 3:00pm | Q & A |
About the Trainer:
Dr. Rachel Jayseelan
MsC, MPhil, PhD
Dr Rachel Jayseelan is a psychologist and practitioner, based out of Bangalore, having completed her education from Christ University, also having worked in the institution for 7 years, in the Department of Psychology, where she taught assessments and supervised cases for clinical, counselling psychology and education psychology students.
Her internships, study and publication experiences are around oncology, relationships and addiction. Dr Rachel has been certified in NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming), Career Counselling, Cognitive Analytic Therapy and Master Level Hypnosis and hence follows a more eclectic approach to counselling which has helped maximize benefits towards a client. She is also a certified Sleep Consultant. Her passion lies in exploring, understanding, and applying a wide range of assessments that can help structure tailor-made therapeutic plans for clients
She is currently working as a consultant Psychologist with Reach – A Child and Adolescent Clinic based in Bangalore. She is also associated with Pearson as a Consultant trainer.
For more details please Call: +91 7399069776 or write to dikshita.choudhury@pearson.com
