Spring 2027

Advanced Assessment Techniques in Counseling Psychology

Advanced assessment techniques in counseling psychology covering diagnostic, career, personality, and behavioral assessment for normal adults, culminating in written reports.

offering recorded3 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Sarah Galvin

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2019: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=8 letter grades); Spring 2023: 3.87 GPA, 86.7% A/AB (n=15 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.94 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=8 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Develop an understanding of psychometric theory and its importance to the construction, administration, and interpretation of psychological tests

  • Evaluate assessment tools critically and make reasoned judgments about their development including standardization and norming processes

  • Evaluate measures for reliability and validity, including across cultural validity and appropriateness for use across groups

  • Select, administer, and interpret tests in response to the referral question and in a manner that minimizes bias, mitigates threats to validity and is ethically sound

  • Administer, score, and interpret at least two tests (e.g., MMPI-3, WAIS-IV) and conduct a clinical interview for assessment

  • Communicate test findings in an integrative, comprehensive, formal written report with recommendations and gain practice with providing verbal and/or written assessment feedback

  • Demonstrate an understanding of contextual and cultural factors that may influence the assessment process, including cultural features of the assessor-client dyad

Source: UW Guide

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Prerequisites

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Declared in Counseling Psychology or Counseling

  • Declared in Counseling Psychology or Counseling
COUNPSY 890

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  • Declared in Counseling Psychology or Counseling

Professors

Spring 2027

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.94 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=8 letter grades). Includes jointly taught sections.

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

SARAH GALVIN is recorded teaching in Spring 2025. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

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Calendar & sections

Spring 2027

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Student experience

the class

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2019: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=8 letter grades); Spring 2023: 3.87 GPA, 86.7% A/AB (n=15 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.94 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=8 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Diagnostic assessment, career interests, personality, behavior, and social environment.
  • Contextual and cultural factors influencing the assessment process.

Skills

  • Understand psychometric theory for test construction, administration, and interpretation.
  • Evaluate measures for reliability, validity, and cross-cultural appropriateness.
  • Administer, score, and interpret specific tests like MMPI-3 and WAIS-IV; conduct clinical interviews.
  • Write formal assessment reports and provide verbal or written feedback.

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COUNPSY 890 · Spring 2027

Advanced Assessment Techniques in Counseling Psychology

Recorded 2026-10-14
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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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