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In this issue:
- ACER's 20% off all Psychology resources sale
- Product Safety Recall
- Identification and Assessment of Intellectual Disabilities
- MajorsPTI™ ProAccount now has improved reporting functionality
- Reconsidering Trauma: Dr John Briere, PhD 2 Day Conference Tour
- Issues in Cross-Cultural Psychological Assessment Conference
- May 2008 is Autism Awarness Month
- Adolescent Coping Scale - Translations
- The New Zealand Psychological Society Annual Conference
- Learn about Psychological assessments and resources published and distributed by ACER
- Upcoming training
ACER is offering 20% off our entire Psychology range!
*Not in conjunction with any other offer
The offer is valid between 10 June - 25 June
Browse our online shop for Psychology resources and place your order via one of
the following options:
t: 1800 338 402 | f: 03 9560 4799 | e: sales@acer.edu.au | order form
Visit: ACER Bookshop - Melbourne
19 Prospect Hill Road, Camberwell VIC 3124
Visit: ACER Bookshop - Perth
7/1329 Hay Street, West Perth WA 6005
Product Safety Recall
ACER has recently been notified by Riverside Publishing of a voluntary recall of certain items in four Riverside psychological assessment kits. The items subject to the voluntary recall may contain the presence of lead in excess of US federal standards. While no injuries have been reported in relation to these items, Riverside Publishing and ACER Press would like to ensure that materials we provide meet and exceed all international safety standards.
The recall items are:
Battelle Developmental Inventory, Second Edition, (BDI-2) Manipulatives
Product code 992XQ/924573
published by Riverside Publishing and supplied in Australia by ACER Press
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Universal Nonverbal Intelligence Test (UNIT) Manipulatives
Product code 990UNI/9-22782
Published by Riverside Publishing and supplied in Australia by ACER Press
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Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scales, Fifth Edition, (SB5) and Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scales for Early Childhood (Early SB5) Manipulatives
Product codes 920561 and 990ESB/1050053
Published by Riverside Publishing and supplied in Australia by ACER Press
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Identification and Assessment of Intellectual Disabilities, by Eirini Lammi, NSW Psychology Consultant
A person with an intellectual disability will usually be identified either at some stage before entering or during the school system. For students with a mild intellectual disability, however, difficulties with adaptive behaviour may not have been previously documented. Adaptive behaviour is the "effectiveness or degree to which the individual meets the standards of personal independence and social responsibility..." (American Association on Mental Retardation [AAMR]). A psycho-educational assessment needs to be used to determine a student's level of functioning and should be based on a variety of measures of intellectual ability and adaptive behaviour, as well as information from the family and, where available, other service providers.
Instruments such as the Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales, the Scales of Independent Behavior, Revised and the Behavior Assessment System for Children, Second Edition should be used in the assessment of an individual's adaptive behaviour. The most frequently used tests in assessing intellectual ability are the most current revisions of the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scales, Fifth Edition and the Wechsler Intelligence Scales.
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MajorsPTI™ ProAccount now has improved reporting functionality
The Majors Personality Type Inventory™ (MajorsPTI™) now allows you to generate all four MajorsPTI™ reports (Type Preferences Report, Temperament Report, Interaction Styles Report, Cognitive Processes Report) from your clients reponses to just one MajorsPTI™ Online Assessment. This is a significant enhancement as previously your client had to complete the assessment four times for you to produce the four reports.
View the MajorsPTI™ sample reports for:
Type Preferences
Cognitive Processes
Temperament
Interaction Styles
Read more about the MajorsPTI™
Reconsidering Trauma: Dr John Briere, PhD
2 Day Conference Tour
Our Melbourne-based Psychology and HR consultants Gerard Ferrara and Marian Power attended the The Delphi Centre's Reconsidering Trauma Conference in Melbourne on 16-17 May.
It was no suprise the conference was a sell out as The Delphi Centre announced that Dr Briere is the most requested speaker they have ever presented.
Dr. Briere presented 'a nonpathologizing, developmentally-informed approach to the treatment of complex posttraumatic presentations. The model used incorporates cognitive-behavioral interventions, relational principles, and aspects of Buddhist philosophy' (The Delphi Centre, Overview of Conference Program, http://www.delphicentre.com.au/briere2008/program.php,
)
To read more about what was covered at the conference, visit: Reconsidering Trauma
To read more about Dr Briere PhD, visit: Dr Briere, PhD
There was plenty of interest in the Dr Briere publications that ACER distributes, including:
Trauma Symptom Checklist for Young Children (TSCYC)
used for evaluating acute and chronic post traumatic symptomatology in children 3-12 years of age
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Trauma Symptom Inventory (TSI)
used for evaluating acute and chronic post traumatic symptomatology in adults
18+ years of age
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Trauma Symptom Checklist For Children (TSCC & TSCC-A)
used for evaluating acute and chronic post traumatic symptomatology in children
8-16 years of age
Read more
Inventory of Altered Self-Capacities (IASC)
used to assess difficulties in relatedness, identity and affect control in adults 18+ years of age
Read more
Cognitive Distortion Scales™ (CDS™)
used to assess dysfunctional thinking patterns in adults
18+ years of age
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Detailed Assessment of Post Traumatic Stress™ (DAPS™)
used to Assess trauma exposure and symptoms of post traumatic stress in adults
18 + years of age
Read more
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Read more about the Reconsidering Trauma Conference
Issues in Cross-Cultural Psychological Assessment: Enhancing practice with migrants, refugees and indigenous peoples Conference
Marian Power, ACER's Victorian Psychology Consultant, also attended the Issues in Cross-Cultural Psychological Assessment Conference in Melbourne on 16 May, convened by The Victorian Transcultural Psychiatry Unit (VTPU) and The Centre for International Mental Health (CIMH) University of Melbourne.
Dr Ken Rowe, the Research Director of the Learning Processes research program at ACER presented a keynote titled Trans-cultural perspectives on the design and use of psychological assessment instruments, and analyses of data derived from them: Developers, users and consumers beware.
The
presentation highlighted 'key substantive and methodological issues endemic to the design and use of cognitive and psycho-behavioural rating inventories, and the analyses of data derived from them – especially in multi-cultural contexts. Moreover, the presentation provides evidence indicating that traditional psychometric methodologies employed to construct ‘scales’ (typically from dichotomous and/or ordinal item-response formats) and to report ‘norms’, that ignore the sampling, measurement, distributional and structural properties of the derived data, have long since passed their ‘use-by-date’' Read more from the Abstract from this presentation.
Read the Abstracts from the Issues in Cross-Cultural Psychological Assessment Conference
May 2008 is Autism Awareness Month
ACER proudly publishes the only
screening tool for identifying autism and autistic tendencies in children as young as 12 months. The
Autism Detection in Early Childhood (ADEC), by
Dr Robyn Young, clearly identifies and details behaviours that can indicate autism in preverbal children. Those at risk can be screened and referred for a more formal diagnosis, enabling much-needed support at an early stage of development - an important contributor to successful intervention.
Read more about ADEC
ACER also distributes Future Horizons publications, a specialist publisher of Autism Spectrum Disorders resources, as well as the Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule (ADOS) and the Autism Diagnostic Interview - Revised (ADI-R).
For further information about ACER's range of autism publications, visit: http://www.acer.edu.au/acerpress/autism.html
Adolescent Coping Scale - Translations
The success of the Adolescent Coping Scale (ACS), by
Erica Frydenberg and Ramon Lewis, is worldwide with the assessment being translated into over 10 languages for research and publication purposes.
The Adolescent Coping Scale is a self-report inventory that reliably assesses 18 distinct coping strategies designed to assess the degree of usage of a broad range of coping strategies. The Short Form Questionnaire takes 2 minutes while the Long Form Questionnaire takes 10 minutes.
The following translations have been made:
Research translations
Arabic (Riyadh Teachers' College, Saudi Arabia and University of Bahrain)
Chinese (Chinese University of Hong Kong and University of NSW)
Dutch (Paul Oosterveld)
Malaysian (Hospital Universiti Kebangsaas Malaysia and Hospital Kuala Lumpur)
Finnish (Tampere University, Finland)
French (Universite de Montreal, Canada)
German (University of Jena, Germany)
Polish (Warsaw School of Social Psychology)
Russian (University of Latvia)
Translated publications
French (Chenliere, Canada)
Italian (OS Organizzazioni Speciali)
Slovenian (Center za Psihodiagnosticna Sredstva)
Spanish (TEA Ediciones, Spain).
Read more about Adolescent Coping Scale
The New Zealand Psychological Society Annual Conference
ACER will be attending the New Zealand Psychological Society's Annual Conference,
29 - 31 August in Christchurch. It will a great opportunity for our Psychology Consultant, Marian Power, to meet all our New Zealand subscribers and customers.
The theme of the conference is "Wellbeing: Individual, Organisational, Community", focuses on the cultural, psychosocial and physical wellbeing of people as members of families/whanau, communities, organisations and society.
Keynote speakers include Professor Matthew Sanders, the founder of the Triple P-Positive Parenting Program and Director of the Parenting and Family Support Centre at the University of Queensland; Morgan Chambers, trained organisational psychologist, now with her own consulting and executive leadership coaching company; Professor Michael Corballis, President-elect of the International Neuropsychological Society and recipient of the NZPsS 2006 Hunter Award; Professor Gargi Roysircar-Sodowsky, the Director of Diversity Issues & of the Multicultural Centre at Antioch University in New England and Angus Hikairo Macfarlane, associate professor at the University of Waikato.
For further information about the conference, visit: NZ Psychological Society Annual Conference
Learn about Psychological assessments and resources published and distributed
by ACER
Our Psychology consultants offer presentations to organisations or groups of Psychology professionals who are interested in learning about Psychological assessments and resources published and distributed by ACER. These presentations will also explain how the the assessments and resources can enhance your work with clients.
If you are interested in attending a presentation, please contact Marian or Eirni to arrange a suitable time and place for the session.
Marian Power | t: (03) 9277 5411 | e : power@acer.edu.au
Eirni Lammi | t: (02) 8338 6804 | e: lammi@acer.edu.au
Upcoming training
Test Administration–M level Accreditation
Fundamentals of test administration, qualifies participants to use ‘M’ level tests
18 June, Brisbane | 17 July, Melbourne
For further information or to register, visit Test Administration
Work Personality Index (WPI) Accreditation
Develop an understanding of the WPI and qualifies participants to purchase and use the WPI
19 June, Brisbane | 18 July, Melbourne
For further information or to register, visit WPI
2008 dates for MajorsPTI™ Applications of Type Theory Programme
Gain accreditation to use assessments from 16types.com, including the MajorsPTI™
For further details, visit the Institute for Type Development website
Already accredited to use personality type instruments?
Dr Anne Russell and Dan Foster offer single day workshops with dynamic activities and new strategies to introduce Personality Type concepts. These workshops features up-to-date research and detailed activities with information handouts included. These workshops are ideal for people to update their Type knowledge.
For further information, contact: austraining@interstrength.com
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