Advanced Clinical Externship IV: Neuropsychology

Students will be under the supervision of a licensed psychologist as the course instructor for all activities. The supervisor will have expertise in Neuropsychology. Students will interact directly with patients who have various neurological, psychiatric, and/or medical disorders. The student may participate in interviewing patients and in conducting feedback sessions with patients and/or families. Students will administer a variety of neuropsychological (including cognitive and affective) measures, score test data, interpret test data, develop treatment recommendations, and write test reports.Learning Goals: Students will learn how to administer a variety of neuropsychological tests, score test data, interpret test data, generate diagnostic formulations, develop treatment recommendations, write test reports, conduct interviews, and carry out feedback sessions. These activities will be supervised by the course instructor and will be carried out with patients.Assessment and outcome: Student performance will be documented on skills in interviewing, test administration and scoring, report writing, delivery of feedback, acquired clinical knowledge, and integration of the material. Course grade will be based on the quality of the activities described above as well as the ability to interact with patients and medical staff.Rationale: The activities in this course are essential to functioning as a professional clinical neuropsychologist. This course overlaps with no other course in the subprogram or department, and no course will be dropped to accommodate this offering.

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