The Testing Psychologist Podcast

Would you rather read the transcript? Click here. Did anyone else watch pro wrestling as a kid? My brother, cousin, and I would gather around the TV and watch anything from the WWF, WCW, WWE…whatever we could find. Then we would re-enact the moves using our stuffed animals and, sometimes, one another. So when I was searching for a name for this short summer series of podcasts, “Summer Slam” was an obvious choice! The Summer Slam series will have a few quick, to-the-point episodes with simple, actionable tips for you to put in place immediately. The strategies will mirror my own areas of focus from my last quarterly retreat. For Summer Slam #1, we’re talking about revisiting your schedule. Is it working for you, or are you working too much? If it’s the latter, now’s the time to look ahead and build out more of an ideal schedule. Cool Things Mentioned Testing Psychologist episode on time blocking Featured Resource I am honored to partner with PAR for 2021 to bring you featured items from their catalog! Listen to each episode for specific product recommendations and links. Learn more at www.parinc.com. The Testing Psychologist podcast is approved for CEU’s! I’ve partnered with At Health to offer CE credits for podcast episodes! Visit this link to access current and past episodes available for CE credit. You can use code “TTP10” for a discount on ALL the course credits you purchase from At Health! About Dr. Jeremy Sharp I’m a licensed psychologist and Clinical Director at the Colorado Center for Assessment & Counseling, a private practice that I founded in 2009 and have grown to over 20 clinicians. I earned my undergraduate degree in Experimental Psychology from the University of South Carolina before getting my Master’s and PhD in Counseling Psychology from Colorado State University. These days, I specialize in psychological and neuropsychological evaluation with kids and adolescents. As the host of the Testing Psychologist Podcast, I provide private practice consulting for psychologists and other mental health professionals who want to start or grow psychological testing services in their practices. I live in Fort Collins, Colorado with my wife (also a therapist) and two young kids. Ready to grow your testing services? Click below to schedule a complimentary 30-minute pre-consulting call! Schedule Your Call

Would you rather read the transcript? Click here. Dr. Ben Lovett is back and talking all about his book, Testing Accommodations for Students with Disabilities. He has a stellar command of the research in this field from having done it himself and reviewed so much of it while writing the book. Here are a few things that we talked about: When to have individuals take medication (or not) prior to testingThe most research-supported accommodations for things like ADHD, learning disorders, and mood concernsMyths around testing accommodations (spoiler: processing speed doesn’t always equal extra time!)A “formula” for increasing the likelihood that your accommodation requests will be granted Cool Things Mentioned in This Episode Testing Accommodations for Students With Disabilities: Research-Based Practice (affiliate link)Validity Testing in Child and Adolescent Assessment (Evidence-Based Practice in Neuropsychology) (affiliate link) Featured Resource I am honored to partner with PAR for 2021 to bring you featured items from their catalog! Listen to each episode for specific product recommendations and links. Learn more at www.parinc.com. The Testing Psychologist podcast is approved for CEU’s! I’ve partnered with At Health to offer CE credits for podcast episodes! Visit this link to access current and past episodes available for CE credit. You can use code “TTP10” for a discount on ALL the course credits you purchase from At Health! About Dr. Ben Lovett Dr. Ben Lovett is an associate professor of psychology at the State University of New York (SUNY) at Cortland, where his research focuses on the diagnosis of individuals with ADHD, learning disabilities, and related conditions, as well as the provision of testing accommodations to students with these disorders. He has published over 70 papers on these topics, as well as a full-length book, Testing Accommodations for Students with Disabilities: Research-Based Practice (APA Press). He has served as a consultant to numerous testing agencies and schools on disability and assessment issues, and he is a licensed psychologist in New York. About Dr. Jeremy Sharp I’m a licensed psychologist and Clinical Director at the Colorado Center for Assessment & Counseling, a private practice that I founded in 2009 and have grown to over 20 clinicians. I earned my undergraduate degree in Experimental Psychology from the University of South Carolina before getting my Master’s and PhD in Counseling Psychology from Colorado State University. These days, I specialize in psychological and neuropsychological evaluation with kids and adolescents. As the host of the Testing Psychologist Podcast, I provide private practice consulting for psychologists and other mental health professionals who want to start or grow psychological testing services in their practices. I live in Fort Collins, Colorado with my wife (also a therapist) and two young kids. Ready to grow your testing services? Click below to schedule a complimentary 30-minute pre-consulting call! Schedule Your Call

This podcast focuses on the importance of using checklists in psychological and neuropsychological testing to reduce errors and improve consistency. It draws inspiration from Atul Gawande's book, 'The Checklist Manifesto,' and provides practical checklists for implementation. The benefits of using checklists in various settings, such as psychological practices and group hiring, are also discussed.

Would you rather read the transcript? Click here. How many times have you run into challenging or ambiguous ethical situations and looked around your office, wishing an attorney would appear to answer all of your questions? For me, it’s countless. Dr. Amanda Zelechoski doesn’t answer ALL the questions that have ever come up, but she came really close on today’s episode! As a dual attorney-psychologist and risk management consultant for The Trust, Dr. Zelechoski has a unique, insider’s perspective on legal and ethical concerns for psychologists. Here are just a few topics we cover today: Court orders vs. subpoenasTest data vs. test materials – what should we release?How to respond to negative online reviewsWhat client information should we share in an online forum? Cool Things Mentioned The Trust’s resource centerThe Trust’s risk management consultation serviceAmanda’s staff page at Valparaiso Featured Resource I am honored to partner with PAR for 2021 to bring you featured items from their catalog! Listen to each episode for specific product recommendations and links. Learn more at www.parinc.com. The Testing Psychologist podcast is approved for CEU’s! I’ve partnered with At Health to offer CE credits for podcast episodes! Visit this link to access current and past episodes available for CE credit. You can use code “TTP10” for a discount on ALL the course credits you purchase from At Health! About Dr. Amanda Zelechoski Dr. Amanda Zelechoski, J.D., Ph.D., ABPP is a licensed clinical and forensic psychologist and attorney. She is board certified in Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology and specializes in trauma. She has worked clinically with adults, children, and families in inpatient, outpatient, and forensic settings. Currently, Dr. Zelechoski is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Valparaiso University, where she teaches a wide variety of psychology and counseling courses. As the director of the Psychology, Law, and Trauma Lab, her primary research interests include trauma in at-risk and delinquent youth and forensic mental health assessment. She is the co-author of Activities for Teaching Psychology and Law: A Guide for Instructors. In addition, Dr. Zelechoski is a Risk Management Consultant for The Trust and provides training and consultation to numerous mental health, law enforcement, and correctional agencies. About Dr. Jeremy Sharp I’m a licensed psychologist and Clinical Director at the Colorado Center for Assessment & Counseling, a private practice that I founded in 2009 and have grown to over 20 clinicians. I earned my undergraduate degree in Experimental Psychology from the University of South Carolina before getting my Master’s and PhD in Counseling Psychology from Colorado State University. These days, I specialize in psychological and neuropsychological evaluation with kids and adolescents. As the host of the Testing Psychologist Podcast, I provide private practice consulting for psychologists and other mental health professionals who want to start or grow psychological testing services in their practices. I live in Fort Collins, Colorado with my wife (also a therapist) and two young kids. Ready to grow your testing services? Click below to schedule a complimentary 30-minute pre-consulting call! Schedule Your Call

Would you rather read the transcript? Click here. Today I’m addressing another frequent question from the Facebook group and my consulting clients: where can I find CEU credits on assessment-related topics? While it can be harder to find testing-specific topics than therapy-related topics, there are some good options out there that cover a variety of assessment-related information. Cool Things Mentioned National Academy of NeuropsychologyAmerican Psychological AssociationThe Testing Psychologist via At HealthNavigating Neuropsychology via INSSociety for Personality AssessmentTest publisher webinarsPARWPSMHSPearsonAPA division-specific CE’sConferences! AACN, AAPdN, APA, etc.School NeuropsychState-specific psych associationsSchwartz Neurodiversity (autism-specific)NASPMinnesota Center for Collaborative/Therapeutic Assessment Featured Resource I am honored to partner with PAR for 2021 to bring you featured items from their catalog! Listen to each episode for specific product recommendations and links. Learn more at www.parinc.com. The Testing Psychologist podcast is approved for CEU’s! I’ve partnered with At Health to offer CE credits for podcast episodes! Visit this link to access current and past episodes available for CE credit. You can use code “TTP10” for a discount on ALL the course credits you purchase from At Health! About Dr. Jeremy Sharp I’m a licensed psychologist and Clinical Director at the Colorado Center for Assessment & Counseling, a private practice that I founded in 2009 and have grown to over 20 clinicians. I earned my undergraduate degree in Experimental Psychology from the University of South Carolina before getting my Master’s and PhD in Counseling Psychology from Colorado State University. These days, I specialize in psychological and neuropsychological evaluation with kids and adolescents. As the host of the Testing Psychologist Podcast, I provide private practice consulting for psychologists and other mental health professionals who want to start or grow psychological testing services in their practices. I live in Fort Collins, Colorado with my wife (also a therapist) and two young kids. Ready to grow your testing services? Click below to schedule a complimentary 30-minute pre-consulting call! Schedule Your Call

Would you rather read the transcript? Click here. Irritability in kids has been a personal and professional interest for nearly two decades. I went to grad school at a time when pediatric bipolar disorder was the “hot” diagnosis, only to find out several years later that the irritability so often seen as representative of bipolar in kids did not actually predict a bipolar diagnosis during adulthood. The advent of disruptive mood dysregulation disorder advanced our knowledge quite a bit, yet these irritable kids continue to fall in a gray area as far as diagnosis and treatment. Dr. Melissa Brotman is here with me chatting all about her work with pediatric mood concerns, with a focus on the irritability and angry outbursts that so many of us see. These are some of the topics that we cover: The history and classification of pediatric mood disordersThe relationship between irritability, anxiety, and depressionMelissa’s exposure-based treatment with angry kidsEcological Momentary Assessment and app-based mood tracking Cool Things Mentioned The Testing Psychologist Advanced Practice mastermind  Featured Resource I am honored to partner with PAR for 2021 to bring you featured items from their catalog! Listen to each episode for specific product recommendations and links. Learn more at www.parinc.com. The Testing Psychologist podcast is approved for CEU’s! I’ve partnered with At Health to offer CE credits for podcast episodes! Visit this link to access current and past episodes available for CE credit. You can use code “TTP10” for a discount on ALL the course credits you purchase from At Health! About Dr. Melissa Brotman Dr. Melissa A. Brotman leads the Neuroscience and Novel Therapeutics Unit (NNT) in the Emotion and Development Branch at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) Intramural Research Program (IRP). Dr. Brotman received her PhD in clinical psychology from the University of Pennsylvania, where she specialized in cognitive behavioral therapy for mood and anxiety disorders. Her neurodevelopmental, translational research integrates basic and clinical approaches to the study of mood disorders in children and adolescents. Specifically, she uses affective neuroscience techniques to understand the brain-based mechanisms underlying severe irritability in youth and leverages that pathophysiological knowledge to guide the development of novel targeted interventions. Contact info: Website: https://www.nimh.nih.gov/nnt Twitter: @MelissaBrotman About Dr. Jeremy Sharp I’m a licensed psychologist and Clinical Director at the Colorado Center for Assessment & Counseling, a private practice that I founded in 2009 and have grown to over 20 clinicians. I earned my undergraduate degree in Experimental Psychology from the University of South Carolina before getting my Master’s and PhD in Counseling Psychology from Colorado State University. These days, I specialize in psychological and neuropsychological evaluation with kids and adolescents. As the host of the Testing Psychologist Podcast, I provide private practice consulting for psychologists and other mental health professionals who want to start or grow psychological testing services in their practices. I live in Fort Collins, Colorado with my wife (also a therapist) and two young kids. Ready to grow your testing services? Click below to schedule a complimentary 30-minute pre-consulting call! Schedule Your Call

Would you rather read the transcript? Click here “If you’re not comfortable asking for someone’s CV, why are you comfortable asking for their advice?” I cannot count how many times I’ve seen requests for clinical consultation come up in the Testing Psychologist Community and elsewhere. Fortunately, Dr. Kathryn Esquer has made a career out of connecting with others and helping them connect with one another. She is here today talking with me about the research and practice of clinical consultation, from both the consultant’s side and the consultee’s side. Here are a few things that we discuss: Distinguishing consultation from supervisionLegal and ethical considerations in consultationFinding and vetting a consultantSetting fees as a consultant Cool Things Mentioned Teletherapist Network – get 50% off your first month with code “TestingPsych”Person-Centered TechThe Testing Psychologist Advanced Practice mastermind Featured Resource I am honored to partner with PAR for 2021 to bring you featured items from their catalog! Listen to each episode for specific product recommendations and links. Learn more at www.parinc.com. The Testing Psychologist podcast is approved for CEU’s! I’ve partnered with At Health to offer CE credits for podcast episodes! Visit this link to access current and past episodes available for CE credit. You can use code “TTP10” for a discount on ALL the course credits you purchase from At Health! About Dr. Kathryn Esquer Kathryn Esquer is a licensed psychologist and founder of the Telethearpist Network, a consultation community for the next generation of therapists. She is passionate about preventing burn out and isolation in the field of mental by using relationships and consultations to stay connected, confident and ethical in private practice. Contact info: Website: https://teletherapistnetwork.com/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/teletherapist.network/ About Dr. Jeremy Sharp I’m a licensed psychologist and Clinical Director at the Colorado Center for Assessment & Counseling, a private practice that I founded in 2009 and have grown to over 20 clinicians. I earned my undergraduate degree in Experimental Psychology from the University of South Carolina before getting my Master’s and PhD in Counseling Psychology from Colorado State University. These days, I specialize in psychological and neuropsychological evaluation with kids and adolescents. As the host of the Testing Psychologist Podcast, I provide private practice consulting for psychologists and other mental health professionals who want to start or grow psychological testing services in their practices. I live in Fort Collins, Colorado with my wife (also a therapist) and two young kids. Ready to grow your testing services? Click below to schedule a complimentary 30-minute pre-consulting call! Schedule Your Call

Would you rather read the transcript? Click here. Today’s interview was fascinating. I had the pleasure of speaking with Dr. Ted Cunliffe and Dr. Jason Smith, two of the co-authors of the book, Understanding Female Offenders. These guys have spent their careers working with- and studying female offenders and share a wealth of information from their own research and elsewhere. These are just a few topics that we discuss in the interview: A broad overview and definition of psychopathyHow psychopathy differs between men & womenConsiderations when assessing psychopathy in womenSpecific measures used in assessing psychopathy Cool Things Mentioned The Mask of Sanity bookPCL-R (Hare Psychopathy Checklist – Revised)TSI-2 (Trauma Symptom Inventory – Second Edition)PAI (Personality Assessment Inventory)Rorschach Featured Resource I am honored to partner with PAR for 2021 to bring you featured items from their catalog! Listen to each episode for specific product recommendations and links. Learn more at www.parinc.com. The Testing Psychologist podcast is approved for CEU’s! I’ve partnered with At Health to offer CE credits for podcast episodes! Visit this link to access current and past episodes available for CE credit. You can use code “TTP10” for a discount on ALL the course credits you purchase from At Health! About Dr. Ted B. Cunliffe Ted B. Cunliffe, Ph.D., is a Clinical and Forensic Psychologist licensed to practice in the State of Florida, and over the past 6 years, he has been in full-time private practice and provided expert witness services in various jurisdictions and courts within Florida and beyond. He has provided assessment services and worked with forensic populations in a wide variety of settings including juvenile detention centers, adult prisons,juvenile probation, and outreach programs in the community for over 30 years. Specifically, he has served as a Staff Psychologist and Mental Health Director at a wide number of correctional facilities in Florida, California, and Canada. Contact info: Website: http://tedbcunliffephdllc.com/ E-mail: tedcunliffephd@gmail.com. About Dr. Jason M. Smith Jason M. Smith, PsyD, ABPP, has worked since 2014 as a licensed Clinical Psychologist (currently Chief Psychologist) for a US female correctional facility where he has continued treating, assessing, and managing incarcerated women. With his coauthors, he has published on female offenders/psychopathy as well as theoretical Rorschach articles (https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jason_Smith52). He is on the Board of Assessors for Rorschachiana, and he has received board certification from the American Board of Professional Psychology (ABPP) in Clinical Psychology. Dr. Smith has presented his research and workshops on assessing and treating female offenders both nationally and internationally. Dr. Smith was awarded the APA Division 18 Criminal Justice Section Outstanding Dissertation Award (2014) and the SPA John E. Exner Scholar Award (2019). Contact info: Website: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jason_Smith52. He can be contactedE-mail: jmsmithpsyd@gmail.com. Visit maverickpsychology.com for our webinar trainings starting Summer 2021. About Dr. Jeremy Sharp I’m a licensed psychologist and Clinical Director at the Colorado Center for Assessment & Counseling, a private practice that I founded in 2009 and have grown to over 20 clinicians. I earned my undergraduate degree in Experimental Psychology from the University of South Carolina before getting my Master’s and PhD in Counseling Psychology from Colorado State University. These days, I specialize in psychological and neuropsychological evaluation with kids and adolescents. As the host of the Testing Psychologist Podcast, I provide private practice consulting for psychologists and other mental health professionals who want to start or grow psychological testing services in their practices. I live in Fort Collins, Colorado with my wife (also a therapist) and two young kids. Ready to grow your testing services? Click below to schedule a complimentary 30-minute pre-consulting call! Schedule Your Call

Would you rather read the transcript? Click here. “Systems come from within.” We’ve been talking a lot about systems on the podcast lately. Today I have a true master of systems, Natasha Vorompiova from Systems Rock, to share some of her philosophy and secrets on developing systems in your practice. I really connected with Natasha on our shared love of noticing and eliminating inefficiencies in daily life. Here are a few things that we talk about in the episode: Common systems that testing psychologists needMistakes and bad habits that psychologists tend to haveSpecific technology and software to help with systemsIntegrations between systems and software Cool Things Mentioned Natasha’s website: www.systemsrock.com & email: natasha@systemsrock.comAsanaClickUpMonday.comDock.healthAcuityIntakeQZapierForm Tool & Testing Psychologist episode with Dr. Rebecca Murray-MetzgerTextExpanderThe Testing Psychologist Advanced Practice mastermind Featured Resource I am honored to partner with PAR for 2021 to bring you featured items from their catalog! Listen to each episode for specific product recommendations and links. Learn more at www.parinc.com. The Testing Psychologist podcast is approved for CEU’s! I’ve partnered with At Health to offer CE credits for podcast episodes! Visit this link to access current and past episodes available for CE credit. You can use code “TTP10” for a discount on ALL the course credits you purchase from At Health! About Natasha Vorompiova Natasha is the rare breed who deeply loves systems, analytics, and numbers and uses her dark magic to build metrics tracking tools for her clients to turn their marketing into a precision machine. At the same time, she is incredible at making the most complex techy topics feel super approachable. Currently, Natasha helps her clients unlock the treasures hidden in their data to optimize their marketing and grow purposefully, intentionally, and strategically. Get in touch with Natasha: https://SystemsRock.com/https://www.facebook.com/SystemsRock About Dr. Jeremy Sharp I’m a licensed psychologist and Clinical Director at the Colorado Center for Assessment & Counseling, a private practice that I founded in 2009 and have grown to over 20 clinicians. I earned my undergraduate degree in Experimental Psychology from the University of South Carolina before getting my Master’s and PhD in Counseling Psychology from Colorado State University. These days, I specialize in psychological and neuropsychological evaluation with kids and adolescents. As the host of the Testing Psychologist Podcast, I provide private practice consulting for psychologists and other mental health professionals who want to start or grow psychological testing services in their practices. I live in Fort Collins, Colorado with my wife (also a therapist) and two young kids. Ready to grow your testing services? Click below to schedule a complimentary 30-minute pre-consulting call! Schedule Your Call

Would you rather read the transcript? Click here The realm of psychopathology assessment is fascinating to me. Today I’m speaking with the developers of the SPECTRA Indices of Psychopathology, Dr. Mark Blais and Dr. Justin Sinclair, about their work to develop this measure over the last decade or so. They are kind enough to endure my naive questions about the measure and the assessment of psychopathology in general. Here are a few topics that we get into: The p factor (it’s okay if you don’t know what that is)Why a hierarchical model of psychopathology makes sense for clinicians and clientsNuts and bolts of the SPECTRAClinical use cases for the SPECTRA Cool Things Mentioned Code for one free SPECTRA admin: call PAR at 855.856.4266 and use code S-P-E-CSPECTRA white paperBuy the SPECTRA from PAR Inc.Lahey’s research discovering the p factorTesting Psychologist interview with Dr. Katherine Jonas on HiTOPSociety for Personality AssessmentAPA Division 12 & Division 9 Featured Resource I am honored to partner with PAR for 2021 to bring you featured items from their catalog! Listen to each episode for specific product recommendations and links. Learn more at www.parinc.com. The Testing Psychologist podcast is approved for CEU’s! I’ve partnered with At Health to offer CE credits for podcast episodes! Visit this link to access current and past episodes available for CE credit. You can use code “TTP10” for a discount on ALL the course credits you purchase from At Health! About Dr. Mark Blais Dr. Mark Blais is the Director of the Psychological Evaluation and Research Laboratory (the PEaRL) at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Associate Professor of Psychology at Harvard Medical School. His primary clinical and research interests are in psychological assessment, psychometrics, and scale development – and he has published widely in these areas (over 150 journal publications and book chapters, and several edited books). https://www.massgeneral.org/psychiatry/research/psychological-evaluation-and-research-lab About Dr. Justin Sinclair Dr. Justin Sinclair is also a clinical psychologist specializing in psychological assessment, psychometrics, suicide and violence risk assessment, and scale development – with over 70 peer-reviewed journal publications and book chapters, and 6 books. He was fortunate to complete his internship and post-doctoral fellowship under Dr. Blais’ mentorship and served on the faculty of the Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School for roughly a decade before going out into private practice in 2016. In private practice, he focuses on a range of clinical activities including conducting more traditional clinical assessments (in outpatient and inpatient contexts), screening evaluations of prospective clergy and those entering religious communities, fertility medicine evaluations, clinical trials consultation, and psychotherapy. www.DrJustinSinclair.com About Dr. Jeremy Sharp I’m a licensed psychologist and Clinical Director at the Colorado Center for Assessment & Counseling, a private practice that I founded in 2009 and have grown to over 20 clinicians. I earned my undergraduate degree in Experimental Psychology from the University of South Carolina before getting my Master’s and PhD in Counseling Psychology from Colorado State University. These days, I specialize in psychological and neuropsychological evaluation with kids and adolescents. As the host of the Testing Psychologist Podcast, I provide private practice consulting for psychologists and other mental health professionals who want to start or grow psychological testing services in their practices. I live in Fort Collins, Colorado with my wife (also a therapist) and two young kids. Ready to grow your testing services? Click below to schedule a complimentary 30-minute pre-consulting call! Schedule Your Call