PSYCHOTHERAPY WITH PERSONALITY DISORDERS INTRODUCTION Since personality represents who someone is at the deepest level, it is understandable that many people with personality disorders resist the idea that they have maladaptive patterns of personality traits. Even when clients acknowledge that their personality issues are at the heart of their interpersonal problems, they often find it […]

Self-Assessment Form Desired Clinical Skills for Students to Achieve Confident (Can complete independently) Mostly confident (Can complete with supervision) Beginning (Have performed with supervision or need supervision to feel confident) New (Have never performed or does not apply) Comprehensive psychiatric evaluation skills in: Recognizing clinical signs and symptoms of psychiatric illness across the lifespan Mostly […]

INTRODUCTION All diagnoses, from infancy to adulthood, begin with an examination. While an organic basis for most medical disorders can be determined through the use of diagnostic testing, the field of psychiatry is different in that patients cannot be sent to the lab for blood tests to determine the degree of depression. Similarly, patients cannot […]

What Did The practitioner do well? In the YMH Boston Vignette 5 Vudeo, the clinician did an excellent job of making the client comfortable because it is challenging and sometimes complex to make an adolescent client comfortable and gain their trust. The clinician must build good rapport by providing the child with a safe, confidential, […]

Course Description This advanced graduate course equips students with the biostatistical knowledge and skills essential for conducting, interpreting, and critically evaluating public health research and practice. Students explore descriptive and inferential statistics, probability, sampling distributions, hypothesis testing, confidence intervals, power and sample size determination, and advanced techniques including regression analysis, ANOVA, non-parametric methods, survival analysis, […]