Esther Israel
Compiled between December 2015 through April 2016
In the summer of 2011, while I was living in Brooklyn, New York, the Assistant Clinical Director at Utah State Hospital (USH) inquired about my interest in a psychometrist position at USH. There were two psychometrists at USH who received psychological testing orders from psychologists and would meet with the patients and complete the test battery. One of them was leaving. I applied for and was hired in the capacity of ‘psychological assistant I’ or ‘psychometrician’. I worked at USH for 4 years, from December 2011 through the end of 2015. In that time, I completed 34 psychological testing orders in 2012, 54 in 2013, 52 in 2014, and 36 in 2015. Below is a list of psychological tests I administered to patients at USH between the years of 2012 to 2015. The numbers in parenthesis after the test, is the amount of times I administered the test at USH.
ADOS – Autism Diagnostic Observation Scale (14)
BAI – Beck Anxiety Inventory (2)
BDI – Beck Depression Inventory (4)
CELF4 – Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals (3)
CPT – Conners Continuous Performance Test (73)
CVLT-II – California Verbal Learning Test (34)
DBT-WCC – The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Ways of Coping Checklist (9)
DERS – Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (9)
DKEFS – Delis Kaplan Executive Function System
Trails - Trail Making Test (109)
Tower - Tower Test (81)
Color-Word - Color-Word Interference Test (77)
Design - Design Fluency Test (29)
Verbal - Verbal Fluency Test (44)
FrSBe – Frontal Systems Behaviour Scale (2)
FRTVMI – Full Range Test of Visual Motor Integration (11)
KBIT2 – Kaufman Brief Intelligence Test (14)
MACI – Millon Adolescent Clinical Inventory (33)
MCMI-III – Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory (11)
MMPI-A – Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory – Adolescent (1)
MMPI2 – Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (13)
NEPSY AA/RS & IN - Auditory Attention/Response Set & Inhibition (25)
PAI-A – Personality Assessment Inventory Adolescent (58)
PAI – Personality Assessment Inventory (41)
SPS – Suicide Probability Scale (1)
SRS-2 – Social Responsiveness Scale (2)
TOMAL-2 – Test of Memory and Learning (47)
TOMM – Test of Memory Malingering (13)
TSCC – Trauma Symptom Checklist (18)
VIP – Validity Indicator Profile (1)
WAIS-IV – Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (65)
WASI-II – Wechsler Abbreviated Scale of Intelligence (22)
WCST – Wisconsin Cart Sorting Test (14)
WISC-IV – Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (32)
WRAT4 – Wide Range Achievement Test (99)
WRAML2 – Wide Range Assessment of Memory and Learning (40)
WRAVMA – Wide Range Assessment of Visual Motor Abilities (55)
Before I moved back to Utah, the Director of Psychology at USH invited me to participate in the Treatment and Research Coordinating Committee (TRCC) at USH. Also, before I started my psychometrist position at USH, I was invited by the co-chair of the TRCC who is a research psychologist at Brigham Young University to join the TRCC at USH. I agreed and served on the TRCC for one year. In this capacity, I conducted treatment and outcome research with and learned about the research that was being conducted with USH patients, by the directors from the various departments, and their collaborations with academic researchers.
My research role at USH was not part of my psychometrist job duties, yet I was able to organize a Participatory Action Research project with the Therapeutic Recreation department at USH as well as research professors at Brigham Young University and elsewhere. I designed and taught a Motivational Interviewing course. Here are the links to the videos that were taken of me teaching Motivational Interviewing to the Therapeutic Recreation discipline at USH from August 2012 through January 2013.
Motivation - August 30, 2012 (part 1)
Motivation – August 30, 2012 (part 2)
Ambivalence – September 6, 2012 (part 1)
Ambivalence – September 6, 2012 (part 2)
Facilitating Change – September 13, 2012 (part 1)
Facilitating Change – September 13, 2012 (part 2)
Motivational Interviewing – September 20, 2012
Change and Resistance – September 27, 2012
Building Motivation for Change – October 4, 2012
Responding to Change Talk - October 11, 2012
Responding to Resistance – October 18, 2012 (part 1)
Responding to Resistance – October 18, 2012 (part 2)
Enhancing Confidence – October 25, 2012 (part 1)
Enhancing Confidence – October 25, 2012 (part 2)
Strengthening Commitment to Change – November 1, 2012
If you are interested in viewing the syllabus and materials that I prepared, distributed and presented in this Motivational Interviewing class, and to view the post-class survey, please reach out to me.
I also had the privilege of presenting a session for the psychology discipline at USH entitled, “Exploring the Relation of Values, Power, and Mental Health Provision.” I am happy to share the PowerPoint presentation and notes that I prepared in January of 2014, as well as the article by sociologist Dr. Ira Reiss (Exploring the Relation of Values, Power and Advocacy in American Sexual Science.” International Journal of Sexual Health, Volume 26, #1, 2014, pp. 1-12.) upon which I based this presentation. I will respond to my messages once a week so please be patient if you don’t get an immediate response.
