Use of Psychological and Neuropsychological Test Norms with Diverse Populations: Issues, Best Practices, and Future Trends
Gender Diversity in Assessment (3CE)
Friday, September 27th, 12pm-3pm ET
This workshop will focus on methods for developing one's affirmative neuropsychological practice. An aim will be to increase comfort with querying gender and selecting neuropsychological measures. The provision of culturally-humble neuropsychological services relies on an understanding of important psychosocial perspectives which include, but are not limited to, minority stress and resilience, as well as models of health disparity. While some topics might be applicable across the lifespan, this course will address neuropsychological care in adults only; it will not address the many special considerations that arise for transgender, non-binary, and gender-diverse children or adolescents. While there will be no forced participation, it is hoped that participants will come ready for discussion and self-reflection during this workshop/interactive session.
Upon completion of this program, participants will be able to:
Provide guidance and resources on how to practice culturally safe and humble neuropsychology with transgender and gender diverse (TGD) adults;
Review important psychosocial perspectives which include, but are not limited to, minority stress and resilience, as well as models of health disparity;
Engage in discussion around the above and address our growing edges as a profession and individually;
Identify potential challenges in the assessment of transgender and gender diverse populations including but not limited to: limitations to available research, binary normative data selection, provider and systemic biases that impact TGD populations;
List key elements of the affirmative assessment throughout interview, testing and report writing;
Choose appropriate norms for assessing a TGD person.
Racial/Cultural Diversity in Assessment (3CE)
Friday, October 18th, 9am-12pm ET
This workshop focuses on a discussion of the issues and best practices in the use of psychological and neuropsychological test norms with geographically, ethnically and culturally diverse populations of children and adults, with the aim of discussing current practices and future trends with practical implications on the measurement of neuropsychological outcomes in clinical practice and in research.
Upon completion of this program, participants will be able to:
Describe the methodological differences between the construction of a reference and standard when it comes to psychological and neuropsychological test norms;
Explain the INTERGROWTH-21st Project approach in constructing international prescriptive standards for the neuropsychological assessment of children aged 18-30 month and examining inter-population differences in early child development outcomes;
Describe how to robustly examine and report differences in neurodevelopmental outcomes in young children from disparate populations using the prospective, prescriptive methodology described by the WHO Multicentre growth reference study and the INTERGROWTH-21st Project; and discuss the opportunities and challenges of applying this approach to older age groups.