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research designs, methods of quantitative and qualitative data analysis commonly used in
counselling psychology. Besides, students will have actual experience in writing a critical
review, doing a presentation and writing an APA-style report.

CP 517 Cultural and Individual Diversity
1 Term; 3 Credits
This course is designed to facilitate students’ self-awareness of diversity issues, which is
of importance to the professional development of counselling psychologists. During the course,
students are expected to actively engage in various experiential and didactic activities to
increase their knowledge, awareness, sensitivity, and critical thinking about the different facets
of diversity at both individual and cultural levels, and how these relate to their future work as
counselling psychologists.

CP 518 Research Workshops and Seminars in Counselling Psychology
1 Term; 3 Credits
This course will first review what students have learnt in CP516 Research Methods in
Counselling Psychology. Advanced statistical analyses will then be introduced and students
will practise the skills in workshops. In the second half of this course, students will discuss
research designs in counselling psychology in seminars. They will demonstrate their
understandings of writing a formal research proposal by the end of this course.

CP 519 Assessment and Evaluation for Counselling Psychology I
1 Term; 3 Credits
This course aims at introducing students to the principles, features, ethical and cultural
concerns, and therapeutic considerations regarding psychological assessment from a
counselling psychology perspective. Students will be equipped with the fundamental
knowledge and skills in four areas of assessment: clinical intake interview which includes online
application, mental health screening assessment such as SCL-90 and MMSE,
suicide/homicide risk assessment, and career assessment such as Card-Sort. Students will
also begin to develop clinical judgment and integration skills for assessment report writing.

CP 520 Assessment and Evaluation for Counselling Psychology II
1 Term; 3 Credits
CP520, which is the second of a two-course sequence on assessment, offers students
the opportunity of learning to conduct various types of clinical assessment as well as the clinical
interview before the evaluation starts. The interview information will then be incorporated with
the results of a test to write a report and provide recommendation to clients. The students will
also administer and interpret intelligence tests (Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale – 4th Edition
(WAIS-IV), Chinese Version, published by Chinese Science Corporation in Taiwan, and to write
reports based on the outcomes of the testing. In addition, Personality Battery (PB) and
Differential Aptitude Tests – 5th Edition (DAT-V) (Chinese Version, published by Chinese
Behavioural Science Corporation in Taiwan) and RAVEN’s Progressive Matrices, a non-verbal

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