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Registration FormTherapeutic Assessment Immersion Course(Please mail this form to arrive by March 25, 2011 forthe early registration rate and April 15 for the regularregistration rate)Name_____________________________________________Degree_________________ Position___________________Institution_________________________________________Address___________________________________________City______________________________________________State_________________ Zip Code____________________Telephone_________________________________________Fax______________________________________________E-mail_________________________________________________Please enroll me in the May 2-6 workshop.I have enclosed a check for the amount checkedbelow. The registration fee includes handouts andrefreshments during breaks.Comments fromPrevious Attendees“RUN, DON’T WALK to thistraining!’”“This course helped me rediscoverwhy I am a psychologist”“Excellent faculty - engaging,accessible, brilliant”Monday, May 2 – Friday, May 6, 2011Therapeutic AssessmentImmersion CourseCenter for Therapeutic Assessment4310 Medical Parkway, #101Austin, Texas 78756-3331Monday, May 2 - Friday, May 6, 2011Austin, TexasTherapeutic AssessmentImmersion Course:Essential Concepts andSkills Training_____$1500: Early registration, mailed to arrive byMarch 25, 2011_____$1750: Registration after March 25, 2011______I also wish to attend the dinner on the eveningof May 6th and have added an additional $50 to mycheck.Dinner preference (check one):______ vegetarian ______ non-vegetarianThe final deadline for registration is April 15, 2010.We reserve the right to deny participation to anyapplicant or to cancel the workshop for any reason.If you cancel and notify us before April 15, youwill receive a full refund of your fee. Cancellationsbetween April 15 and April 20 qualify for a 50%refund. Due to the limited number of workshopspaces, if you cancel for any reason after April 21,2011, none of your registration fee will be refunded.Please make checks payable to “Stephen E. Finn.”Return this form with your check to Stephen E. Finn,4310 Medical Parkway, #101, Austin, TX, 78756-3331.“The faculty managed to create arich, warm group where we couldgain expertise and learn from oursuccesses and failures”“This was the best training I havebeen to in 25 years of practice”“You not only learn TA, butenhance your skills as a therapist,and discover a lot about yourself asa psychologist and as a person”A Workshop Co-sponsoredby the Therapeutic AssessmentInstitute and the Society forPersonality AssessmentPresenters:Stephen E. Finn &Members of the TherapeuticAssessment Institute33 CE Creditsfor PsychologistsYou will be sent a verification of your registration.If you have questions, or wish to discuss whetherthe workshop will fit your needs, please email Dr.Finn at sefinn@mail.utexas.edu or call him at 512-329-5090.

Therapeutic AssessmentImmersion Course:Essential Concepts andSkills TrainingA workshop co-sponsored by Center forTherapeutic Assessment and theSociety for Personality AssessmentPresenters: Stephen E. Finn &Members of the Therapeutic AssessmentInstituteThis training week is designed forpsychologists and advanced psychologygraduate students who wish to gain in-depthknowledge about Therapeutic Assessment.The training is a first step for individuals whowant to achieve certification in TherapeuticAssessment. Dr. Finn and his colleagueswill lecture on the essential concepts andskills involved in Therapeutic Assessment ofadults, children, adolescents, and couples.Then participants will view video examplespresented by members of the TherapeuticAssessment Institute that illustrate each stepin a Therapeutic Assessment: Initial Sessions,Standardized Test Administration, theExtended Inquiry, Assessment InterventionSessions, Summary/Discussion Sessions, andFollow-up Sessions. Following each didacticportion, attendees will participate in structuredrole-plays in which they will practice theessential skills of Therapeutic Assessment withguidance from the workshop faculty. Roleplayswill be tailored to focus on the types ofclients that are of most interest to workshopparticipants. Attendees of this training mayapply to take part in the Advanced TrainingWorkshop in October 2011.ObjectivesAt the end of the workshop, participants willbe able to:• discuss the concepts of self-verificationand disintegration anxiety and how theyapply to psychological assessment• discuss how research in neurobiologyrelates to psychological assessment• assist clients in forming questions duringthe initial sessions of a psychologicalassessment• conduct an extended inquiry following astandardized administration of variouspsychological tests• plan and conduct an assessmentintervention session• plan and conduct a summary/discussionsession• describe client-friendly forms of writtenassessment feedback• conduct an assessment follow-up sessionScheduleThe workshop will be held from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00p.m. each day from May 2 - May 6. There willbe a lunch break each day. Lunch is available forpurchase in the Hotel as well as places withineasy walking distance at Arboretum Restaurantshttp://www.io.com/house/shop.html. On Fridayevening, there is an optional dinner for everyone.Continuing Education CreditThis workshop qualifies for 33 hours of TypeI CE credits for psychologists. The Society forPersonality Assessment is approved by theAmerican Psychological Association to sponsorcontinuing education for psychologists. SPAmaintains responsibility for the program and itscontent.Prerequisite TrainingThis workshop is open to psychologists andadvanced graduate students. Participants shouldhave previous basic training in psychologicaltesting, and will be provided with readingsprior to the workshop to help them prepare.Professionals with previous training andexperience in Therapeutic Assessment arealso encouraged to attend, as the most currentinformation and techniques will be presented inthis training.The Lead PresenterStephen E. Finn, Ph.D., founder of the Center forTherapeutic Assessment, is a licensed clinicalpsychologist in practice in Austin, TX, a ClinicalAssistant Professor of Psychology at the Universityof Texas at Austin, and Senior Researcher andDirector of Training at the European Center forTherapeutic Assessment at Catholic Universityof Milan, Italy. He has published 50+ articlesand chapters on psychological assessment,psychodiagnosis, and other topics in clinicalpsychology, and is the author of In Our Clients’Shoes: Theory and Techniques of TherapeuticAssessment (Erlbaum, 2007), A Manual forUsing the MMPI-2 as a Therapeutic Intervention(1996, University of Minnesota Press), and (withHale Martin) Masculinity and Femininity inthe MMPI-2 and MMPI-A (2010, University ofMinnesota Press). Dr. Finn received his Ph.D. inclinical psychology in 1984 from the Universityof Minnesota. He is a Fellow of the AmericanPsychological Association and of the Society ofPersonality Assessment, for which he served asPresident in 2002-2004. Dr. Finn is the recipient ofthe 2011 Bruno Klopfer Award from the Societyof Personality Assessment, for distinguishedlifetime contributions to the field of personalityassessment.Therapeutic AssessmentTherapeutic Assessment is a semi-structuredform of collaborative psychological assessmentdeveloped by Stephen Finn and his colleaguesat the Center for Therapeutic Assessment.Therapeutic Assessment can be used for many ofthe same purposes as traditional psychologicalassessment: diagnostic clarification, treatmentplanning, and treatment evaluation. However,in addition, research has shown that TherapeuticAssessment can be a powerful therapeuticintervention for clients and their families,reducing symptomatology, increasing self-esteemand self-compassion, and promoting positiverelationships between family members. For moreinformation about Therapeutic Assessment, visitthe TA website: www.therapeuticassessment.comThe Therapeutic Assessment Institute(TAI)The Therapeutic Assessment Institute was formedin 2009 to promote and coordinate training inTherapeutic Assessment. The members of theTAI are psychologists from varied backgrounds,who have studied and practiced TherapeuticAssessment in a variety of settings. The TAIis currently establishing criteria for formalcertification in Therapeutic Assessment. Themembers of the Therapeutic Assessment Instituteare Stephen Finn, Marita Frackowiak, JenniferImming, Melissa Lehmann, Hale Martin, MaryMcCarthy, Dale Rudin, Pamela Schaber, andDeborah Tharinger.LocationThe training will take place at theEmbassy Suites Austin Arboretum http://embassysuites.hilton.com/en/es/hotels/index.jhtml?ctyhocn=AUSESES.Directions to the hotel and pick up informationfor Austin airport is available on the hotel website. A personalized group web page has been setup with event information: http://embassysuites.hilton.com/en/es/groups/personalized/A/AUSESES-TAI-20110428/index.jhtml?WT.mc_id=POGThe Group Name is Immersion Course andGroup Code is TAI. Hotel room reservationsmay be made on the web page.HousingA special rate of $122 for single and $139 fordouble occupancy has been negotiated forworkshop participants at the Embassy SuitesAustin Arboretum, 9505 Stonelake Boulevard,Austin, TX, 78759. Rooms may be reserved atworkshop rate for dates April 28 through May9, 2011. Reservations may be made by callingthe hotel directly (512-372-8771 or 1-800-362-2779) and refer to the three letter code TAI.Reservations may also be made online at thepersonalized group webpage mentioned above.All reservations must be received by April 10,2010. Reservations received after the due datewill be honored on a space available basis at theprevailing best available rate.