PO590: Emotional Disturbance Reports: Frameworks for Assessment and Rhetoric

  • PMD: 1
  • Cost: Included in Registration
  • Skill Level: Introduction
  • Poster Session 5: Issues in School Psychology, Education, and Supervision

Learner Objectives

This session will help participants…

  1. explain how Johari’s Window and the Big 5 Personality Theory can be used to inform case conceptualization in reports about emotional disturbance;
  2. explain how the CASEL framework can be used to fully illustrate the student’s feelings, thoughts, and behaviors; and
  3. explain how understanding concepts of purpose and audience can improve psychological reports.

Description

Diagnosing emotional disturbance requires a practitioner to carefully differentiate between similar diagnoses; excellent reports evolve from understanding rich theory and polished professional rhetoric.

Presenter(s)

Beverly Whalen-Schmeller, Metro Nashville Public Schools
Ron L. Roberts, PhD, MNPS

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