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January

A Brief and Practical Introduction to Therapeutic Assessment

This 3-hour workshop is designed for psychologists and psychologists in training who have little exposure to the Therapeutic Assessment (TA) model but are interested in learning about it and how TA elements can be implemented in an assessment process. Therapeutic Assessment (TA) was developed by Stephen Finn, PhD, and his colleagues,...

January

Using the Consensus Rorschach in Ultra-brief Therapeutic Assessment with Couples

In this webinar, the three presenters will describe their experiences with an ultra-brief version of Therapeutic Assessment with Couples (Finn, 2015) including how the Consensus Rorschach is used as a potent Assessment Intervention Session (AIS) in the second meeting with the partners. We will describe the rationale and procedures of Ultra-brief Therapeutic...

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