Section 11: Assessment Procedures

Question 1

What five prerequisites and requirements must a registrant meet when caring out psychological assessments?

Answer 1

1) obtain specific training, supervision and experience required for the proper selection, administration scoring an interpretation of psychological tests

2) conduct all testing as part of a comprehensive assessment strategy that includes the effective communication of results to all appropriate stakeholders in assessment

3) take responsibility for the ethical maintenance of test, materials, protocols reports, and procedures in their own work, and that of supervise and to the extent appropriate to the setting for the work of colleagues and agency or institutional environments

4) promote responsible practices, and all individuals being supervised in testing and assessment practises

5) comply with institutional, legal and contractual agreements as appropriate and caring out psychological assessments

Question 2

What must registrant clarify in terms of the nature of an assessment?

Answer 2

Must clarify any ambiguity related to the purpose of the assessment, and ensure that the purpose of the assessment is specifically stated in assessment, report and address of the referral appropriately

Question 3

What must a registrant do in terms of test construction?

Answer 3

A registrant who develops and conducts research with test and other assessment techniques must use scientific procedures and current professional knowledge for test, design, standardization, validation, reduction, or elimination of bias and recommendations for their use

Question 4

What two things must a registrant do in terms of obligation to provide explanation, and exception?

Answer 4

1) ensure that appropriate explanations of results are given to a client, regardless of whether the scoring and interpretation is done by the registrant by supervise or by automated or other outside services

2) when circumstances, prohibit such explanations, due to the registrants, formal role, or the nature of the situation, inform the client of this in advance

Question 5

What must registrant taken into account when interpreting results?

Answer 5

When interpreting assessment results, including when, using automated interpretations and registrant, taken into account in the various test factors and characteristics at the end individual being assessed, which may affect the registrant judgments, reduce the accuracy of their interpretations

Question 6

What must a registration do when communicating results?

Answer 6

A resident must use adequate interpretive aids, or explanations and language that is reasonably understandable

Question 7

What two things must a registrant do when reporting limitations in validity or accuracy?

Answer 7

1) indicate any significant reservations they have about the accuracy or the validity of the assessment or limitations to their interpretations in any assessment report

2) including the report of the results of a formal assessment procedure for which norms are available any limitations of the assessment, norms for the individual assessed and any relevant reservations or qualifications, which affect the validity, reliability, or interpretations of results

Question 8

What does the provision of raw test data state?

Answer 8

A registrant must provide within a reasonable time, the original or raw results or data of a provisional assessment, to a registrant, or to a provider of a psychological services, and another restriction when required to do so by a client or the legal garden or agent of the client

Question 9

What three things must a registrant do when they offer an assessment procedure or automated interpretation service to other professionals?

Answer 9

1) accompanying this offering with a print or digitized, manual, or other materials, which accurately and fully describe the development of the assessment, procedure or service, and the rational purpose, norms, validity, reliability, and applications of the procedure

2) explicitly state, the purpose and application for which the procedure is recommended and identify any special qualifications required to administer and interpret it properly

3) ensure that any advertisements or public statements about assessment, procedure or interpretive service, are factual and descriptive

Question 10

A registrant must select scoring and interpretation services, including automated services on the basis of what?

Answer 10

On the basis of evidence for the validity of the program and procedures, as well as on the appropriate considerations

Question 11

What must a registrant never do in terms of reliance on computer reports or interpretive texts?

Answer 11

Must never substitute, computer generated assessment, reports or statements or material from interpretive text regarding a psychological test for their own professional opinion, assessment, or report

Question 12

What two things must a registrant do when they use computer generated interpretive statements, and or interpretive text in preparing psychological evaluations?

Answer 12

1) acknowledge the sources of statements, in a written citation that is formally included in the assessment report

2) formally “using an appropriate format any material taken verbatim from those computer generated interpretations and or interpretive texts

Question 13

What two things must a registrant not based their assessment or intervention decisions or recommendations on?

Answer 13

1) data, or test results that are outdated for the current purpose

2) test, and measures that are obsolete and not applicable to the current purpose

Question 14

What must registrant not do in terms of direct examination of an individual?

Under what circumstances can they provide a report or give testimony of an individual?

Answer 14

Must not provide a report, or give testimony respecting the psychological characteristics of an individual unless the registrant has first conducted a direct in person examination of the individual which is adequate to support the registrant statements and or conclusions?

Question 15

What must registration do if they are asked to provide a report or give testimony of an individual, but are unable to conduct an in person examination?

Answer 15

They must clarify the impact of their limited information on the reliability and validity of the reports and testimony, and must limit appropriately the nature and extent of their conclusions and or recommendations.

Question 16

What does the code state in terms of avoiding conflicting roles?

Answer 16

A registrant must avoid performing multiple and potentially conflicting roles.

Such as psychotherapist and assessor of competence to a stand trial, psychotherapist and assessor for the quote, with a purpose of determining injury, causation and compensation, or psychotherapist and assessor of parental access.

Question 17

What must a registrant do in circumstances where they are called upon to serve more than one roll in a legal proceeding?

Answer 17

A registrant must clarify to the extent possible any role, expectations and extent of the registrants obligation of confidentiality, in order to avoid compromising the registrants, professional judgment, and objectivity, and in order to avoid misleading others, regarding the registrants role.

This clarification must be given in advance of performing psychological services, to the extent that is feasible

Question 18

In terms of impartiality, when conducting an assessment, especially any assessment that may affect the rights of an individual what 4 things must a registrant do?

Answer 18

1) be impartial and unbiassed

2) remain independent in order to make objective recommendations

3) not act as an advocate for any party

4) be aware of any personal or societal biases, or other factors or circumstance that may affect the objectivity of the service provided, and the recommendations made in report and documents such matters in their report as appropriate

Question 19

In terms of truthfulness and candour, in testimony, and reports what three things must a registrant do?

Answer 19

1) testify, truthfully accurately, and candidly

2) Consistent with applicable legal procedures, describe fairly the basis for their testimony and conclusions

3) acknowledge any limits of their data or conclusions, when that acknowledgement is necessary to avoid being misleading to those individuals, reading the report, or hearing their testimony

Question 20

A prior or current professional relationship with a party, does not preclude a registrant from testifying, as a fact, witness, or from testifying to their psychological services to the extent permitted by applicable law, but a registrant must do what three things?

Answer 20

1) appropriately taken into account the ways in which that prior or current relationship, might affect their professional objectivity or opinions

2) disclose the prior or current relationship to the relevant parties

3) where a potential or possible conflict of interest is unavoidable, disclose the potential conflict to the relevant parties and obtain consent

Question 21

What must a resident do when more than one individual is being assessed on the same set of criteria?

Answer 21

A registrant must use parallel procedures

Question 22

When more than one individual is being assessed on the same side of criteria, and a registrant is not able to use parallel procedures, what must a registrant do?

Answer 22

A registrant must provide a rationale for not following the requirement, must include the rational in the written report, and must address any resulting limitations to the report and its conclusions and recommendations

Question 23

In terms of assessment methods, what two things must a registrant do?

Answer 23

1) assess the variables and factors relevant to the referral question or issue

2) use multi method, multi trait procedures, when conducting assessments where the outcome may affect the right of the client

Question 24

What three traits must a registrant’s conclusions and recommendations follow one presented in report or verbally?

Hint: L, C, and C

Answer 24

Must follow, logically, consistently, and clearly from the information gathered through the assessment process

Question 25

What must a registrants conclusions and recommendations be based on?

Answer 25

Must be based on stated assumptions that are gathered and reported during the assessment process, appropriate and impartial interpretations of test and accepted, professional and scientific information that is relevant to the question or issue being addressed

Question 26

What must a registrants conclusion and recommendations not be?

Answer 26

Must not be biased by the registrants preconceptions, prejudices, unsupportive beliefs, or criteria,, which are not represented within the body of scientific knowledge, generally recognized with the practice of psychology

Question 27

What is the codes rule in regard to repeat assessment?

Answer 27

A registrant must not repeat an assessment of an individual if a new assessment is unlikely to produce results which are significantly different from a previously completed assessment the repeat assessment must be as comprehensive as the original assessment or focussed on a specific issue with an explicit rationale for why the repeat assessment is required.

Question 28

What three things must a registrant explain if an assessment is repeated?

Answer 28

1) explain the rationale for repeating it

2) describe any steps taken to minimize the impact of a repeat assessment on the validity and reliability of the results

3) specify any resulting limitations to their assessment, results conclusions diagnoses, and recommendations

Question 29

What seven things must a registrant do when reviewing reports prepared by other registrants, or other professionals?

Answer 29

1) restrict the review information in the file that is acknowledged in the professional literature as relevant to the issue at hand

2) limit comments to the methods, procedures, and processes, employed by the registrant or other professional

3) restrict comments to the sufficiency and accuracy of the conclusions, recommendations or diagnoses in the original report, with such comments based upon and limited to the data presented by or referred to by the original report author

4) restrict comments regarding diagnosis, or other conclusion, or finding to the sufficiency of the record to support the given diagnosis, conclusion, or finding into whether the file contains evidence that is consistent with a particular diagnosis, conclusion, or finding

5) not to make any conclusions diagnosis assessment of psychological status or recommendation specific to the individuals who were the subject of the original report

6) stipulate in the review report, whether the professional opinion sought is possible, based on the information reviewed and include a description of any limits on the review opinion, given the information available in the file

7) identify any conflict of interest past present or potential, and where they are of the opinion that there’s a need for any reassessment or additional assessment, make the recommendation that this is to be completed by another qualified practitioner