General Interview Questions Flashcards
Strengths
-Communication
-Pick up new things quickly
-Time Management
Weaknesses
-Delegation
Favorite Psychology Book
The Happiness Trap by Dr. Russ Harris
Favorite Neuropsychology Book
Favorite Non-Psych Book
Endurance by Scott Kelly
Favorite Neuropsych Test
Trails
Least Favorite Neuropsych Test
Information, Arithmetic
Hardest Part of Grad School
-Personal boundaries
Career Goals
Board-certified clinical neuropsychologist in an academic medical center or hospital working with primarily adults, and eventually/way down the line, an educator, likely at the undergraduate level.
Giving Feedback
- How do you think things went?
- We gave you a lot of tests that looked at memory, thinking abilities, speed, etc.
- Your strengths
- Your weaknesses
- Diagnosis, etiology
- Recommendations
- Questions?
Goals for Internship
Conflict with a supervisor
- Supervision practicum
- One of my first year students wasn’t meeting expectations
- S wanted to remove them from my caseload effective immediately
- I was concerned about the impact on the student
- Compromise: for me to have a conversation with the student first, stating support
- My concerns were respected and addressed, and the escalation still happened since it is ethically essential for a student to be properly trained
Areas of Improvement in Neuropsych
- Feedback
- Psychopharmacology
- Neuroimaging
Most challenging type of patient?
Diversity in Neuropsych
- Cultural, socioeconomic, and individual differences on assessment, diagnosis, and treatment.
How to address bias in neuropsychology?
- Comprehensive history to evaluate pt in their context rather than relying solely on normative data
- Selecting appropriate tests (validated)
- Using culturally-adjusted norms (age, education, race)
- And use CLINICAL JUDGMENT
- Incorporate history (language barriers, unfamiliarity with testing format, etc.)
- Collaborating with interpreters
- Continuing education
- Cultural humility to address my biases, engaging in self-reflecting
- Providing contextualized feedback
- Address limitations in feedback and report
CBT
Goal, ABCs
- restructure cognitive processes
- A = activating event
- B = belief system
- C = consequences*
