
A comprehensive, self-paced deep dive into personality and behaviour function assessment.
The Asynchronous Course gives you multiple ways to engage with the material before stepping into live practice. Purchase the self-paced online course to build your knowledge base now, and add the optional live-online Applied Practice Sessions when you're ready to work through administration and interpretation with a subject matter expert.
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Course Overview
Learn how to develop a rigorous, clinically defensible approach to personality and behaviour function assessment, grounded equally in theory and applied skill.
You'll start by building a theoretical foundation during the Asynchronous Course. The course also asks you to engage critically with assessment theory from diverse cultural perspectives and to articulate the principles of trauma-informed practice — skills that shape every decision that follows.
If you choose to continue your journey with the Live Applied Practice Sessions, you'll move into the administration and interpretation of assessment tools, learning to select instruments based on referral questions and client characteristics, administer and score according to standardized protocols, and identify the limitations of specific tools so you can justify your methodology for a given case.
The course closes by developing your written and oral communication skills: composing comprehensive assessment reports that integrate your findings into specific, actionable recommendations, formatting professional and ethically sound documentation, and translating technical findings into language your intended audience can actually use.
How The Course Runs
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Start with the Asynchronous Course
Enroll in the Personality and Behaviour Function Assessment course through our learning management system and get immediate access to the self-paced learning. Work through recorded lectures, readings, quizzes, and handouts at your own speed.
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Optional Live Applied Practice Sessions
Once your asynchronous coursework is complete, you may register separately for the live-online Applied Practice Sessions. These sessions bring participants together for group discussion, live demonstrations of administration technique, hands-on report writing, and test interpretation.

What You'll Learn
ASYNCHRONOUS COURSEWORK — Approximately 26 Hours (26 CE Credits)
$950 CDN
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Build a Theoretical Foundation: Major personality models and their theoretical/empirical support; the psychometric properties (validity, reliability, normative data) of standardized instruments including the PDS, PAI, MCMI, and BDI-2; appropriate versus inappropriate application of these tools across diverse populations; critiques of assessment theory from diverse cultural perspectives; principles of trauma-informed practice.
NOTE: Students who successfully complete the Asynchronous Course may enroll in the optional, but highly valuable, Live Applied Practice Sessions for additional hands-on development and support.
Meet Your Instructor
Alyssa completed her Master of Science in Counselling Psychology at the University of Calgary and her Bachelor of Arts in Psychology – Applied Emphasis at Concordia University of Edmonton. Prior to registering as a psychologist, Alyssa worked with high-risk children and families in a variety of roles, including caregiver, interventionist, program developer, and researcher. Alyssa and her partner spent 10 years providing support in their own home to high-risk teens, and respite to families with children with a variety of mental health needs.

This course does not certify or authorize independent clinical assessment and does not replace supervised practice through appropriate professional channels. The skills developed here apply across all clinical contexts, and students are expected to pursue supervised practice through their professional college before conducting assessments independently.
Ready to Enroll?
Enroll through our learning management system, or contact us to get started.
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