Personality Assessment Training: View From a Licensing Board

Abstract

The literature contains numerous surveys about assessment training at the level of both doctoral programs and internships. There is minimal information about how such training is assessed by state and provincial regulatory bodies. In this article, we describe the process used by one state licensing board to assess a licensure candidate's transcript, conduct an oral examination, and potentially recommend remediation when the candidate is found to be deficient in specified skills. Our focus in this article is on the application of this evaluation process to personality assessment, although we also examined other areas of practice in a comparable manner.