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Deliberately Integrating Culture and Context into Neuropsychological Assessment
A. Jordan Wright, PhD, ABAP, ABPP
A. Jordan Wright is a Clinical Associate Professor and Program Director of the combined Clinical/Counseling Psychology PhD program in the Department of Applied Psychology at NYU. He received his PhD in Clinical Psychology from Columbia University, as well as a Masters in Psychology in Education from Teachers College, Columbia University. He is a diplomate of the American Board of Assessment Psychology (ABAP) and the American Board of Professional Psychology (ABPP) and a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA), Society for Personality Assessment (SPA) ,and the American Academy for Assessment Psychology (AAAP).
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CE:1.0
Description
This workshop will present strategies for conducting integrated and meaningful neuropsychological assessments, with a focus on integrating culture and context. Particular focus will be on multimethod, integrated, and person-focused evaluations and reports, interpreting cognitive and neuropsychological data within the context of cultural and personal contextual information. Participants will be introduced to methods for collecting cultural and contextual information, as well as how to integrate it into the work they are doing to better understand individuals' functioning and what is contributing to it.
As a result of attending this workshop, participants will be able to:
1. Explain why collecting cultural and contextual information about patients is important to the neuropsychological assessment process.
1. Explain why collecting cultural and contextual information about patients is important to the neuropsychological assessment process.
2. Describe ways of collecting cultural information about patients.
3. Discuss how identical test scores can carry different meaning for people with different backgrounds.
4. List at least two ways of deliberately integrating culture/context into their neuropsychological assessments.