When A Psychodiagnostician Wishes Their Therapy Patient Had Testing

Every psychodiagnostician should refer at least one of their own psychotherapy patients for testing. It helps to have a first-hand experience of what it feels like to wish for answers, to have to formulate questions, to experience self doubts and self consciousness. It helps as well to be the one encountering and working with the surprise, skepticism, and nervousness of your patient when you raise the issue of testing; to field their questions; and most importantly to learn what integrating test findings into the work actually looks like on the ground. We will explore the unexpected hoops and tangles arising in therapy when testing is raised, identify pitfalls and how to navigate them, and discuss details of how a sensitive therapist-tester collaboration can become transformative for a patient. This Webinar will be a breakdown of how testing can matter (significantly) to an ongoing psychotherapy process.

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Society for Personality Assessment is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists #PSY-0218.