C/TA Interest Group Presents- "The Point Where Everything Meets": Integration of the Crisi Wartegg System (CWS) Across the Stages of Collaborative/Therapeutic Assessment (CTA)
The Crisi Wartegg System (CWS) for the Wartegg Drawing Completion Test (WDCT) is an efficient performance-based personality assessment measure that lends itself well to integration within the context of larger assessment batteries. The CWS provides rich emotional-interpersonal data, via a non-threatening and accessible task, offering clinicians a relatively easy manner in which to access the split-off affect states, implicit self-schemas, memories, and personality organization of clients. Empirically validated, the CWS conceptualizes personality uniquely, with a focus on adaptive functioning, interpersonal style, attachment organization, coping skills and energies, and cognitive/perceptual accuracy. It’s incremental/additive validity has been discussed and demonstrated across complex clinical cases, particularly with children/teens and within the context of family systems.
The current presentation will review specific and unique benefits of the CWS across the steps/stages of an adolescent Collaborative/Therapeutic Assessment (CTA). Decision-making related to inclusion of the CWS in the test battery, utility of the CWS in case conceptualization, application of the CWS to Extended Inquiry, use of CWS in family intervention session, and follow-though of concepts and metaphors into summary and discussion session and client feedback/fable will be discussed. Throughout the presentation, key features of the CWS will be highlighted, providing foundational concepts to those less familiar with the measures.
This presentation is relevant to assessment psychologists seeking to enhance assessment conceptualization skills, better understand the Crisi Wartegg System, manage time and funding constraints in assessment (via implementation of an efficient performance-based test), and consider the role of multi-method assessment within the context of CTA.
Presenter: Dr. Jacob A. Palm
Learning Objectives:
Through attendance and participation in this presentation, participants will:
- List three domains of adaptive functioning and/or intrapsychic personality data that the Crisi Wartegg System provides information about (supporting inclusion in a test battery).
- Describe three important pieces of information provided by CWS Box Codes to the understanding of each area of personality.
- Explain three practical, process-driven, and/or conceptual benefits of including the CWS in complex assessments.
- List three reasons that the CWS lends itself well to CTA processes of Extended Inquiry and/or Assessment Intervention Sessions.
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$35.00 |
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$50.00 |
Jacob A. Palm, Ph.D., serves as the founder and director of the Southern California Center for Collaborative Assessment. He is the United States representative of the Istituto Italiano Warteggin Rome, Italy, where he works closely with Dr. Alessandro Crisi on clinical applications, research, and training of the Wartegg Drawing Completion Test. Dr. Palm facilitates frequent clinical consultations using the CWS, and regularly presents at national conferences, community-based agencies, and university training programs about the test. Along with Alessandro Crisi, Dr. Palm is co-author of The Crisi Wartegg System (CWS): Manual for Administration, Scoring, and Interpretation (Routledge, 2018). Dr. Palm is on staff at Miller Children’s Hospital at Long Beach Memorial and provides assessment consultation to various programs throughout the southern California area, including the Professional Recovery Center. He provides integrated assessments as a member of the Teen Brain Team at Hoag-Presbyterian Hospital, Neurosciences Institute (Newport Beach). He has previously served as the Director of APA Internship Training and Director of Psychological Assessment for The Guidance Center, a community mental health center, in Long Beach, California.
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