How to start a career in assessment

[hum1]

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I am a clinical psychologist and have been doing psychotherapy mostly in private practice for the past 20 years. I want to do something different and assessment/evaluations/testing seems to be a possible choice.

My question is, how do I start? I did assessment as part of my academic training but am in need of training/supervision/practice. Should I register for courses on assessment and then contact clinics and other psychologists in my area and offer to do assessment? Should I do the courses and then offer evaluations in my private practice? Should I start by contacting other clinicians and offer help so that I can learn to do assessment and reports with them?

I am not sure on what the first steps are. Thank you.

 

[Justanothergrad]

Hi

Couple questions. Happy to answer.

1. What kinda assessment- whst population, scope if eval, pay method, forensic scope, etc

2. What is your training in (eg standard personality/iq, specialization area (mil/vet, ptsd, etc), areas not known- eg projective, etc) and how sharp are your diagnostic skills?

3. What prof orgs are you in and what is uour conference plan/opportunity?

4. What is the timeline you believe you are working on

 

[WisNeuro]

Hi

Couple questions. Happy to answer.

1. What kinda assessment- whst population, scope if eval, pay method, forensic scope, etc

2. What is your training in (eg standard personality/iq, specialization area (mil/vet, ptsd, etc), areas not known- eg projective, etc) and how sharp are your diagnostic skills?

3. What prof orgs are you in and what is uour conference plan/opportunity?

2 definitely the big issue here, though with pretty much only doing therapy for the past 20 years, I'd have to imagine OP would need some serious training and supervision to bring competency up to par.

 

[hum1]

Thank you.

The testing that I did in the past was mainly personality, intelligence, and clinical. I remember doing the WISC, WAIS, MMPI, Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory, and the Standford Binet.

Last time I did these tests was 6 years ago. I take competency very seriously but I do believe that with some training/guidance I would be able to apply these tests again. I believe I would struggle more with writing the assessment/evaluation reports and integrating the results from the several scales into a cohesive and meaningful whole.

 

[WisNeuro]

What kind of assessments would you want to do, what would be evaluating, specifically?

 

[Therapist4Chnge]

Something like doing pre-surg evals after some cases with supervision and CEUs could work.