Online training in use of the Moss-PAS
Course information
Level
Introductory
Locations
This course will be taking place online
Course information
Level
Introductory
Locations
This course will be taking place online
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Learning objectives
| This course is an opportunity to become a certified user of the Moss-PAS (ID) and the Moss-PAS (ChA). Dr. Steve Moss, the course leader, has directed the ongoing development of the PAS-ADD assessments since 1990. | The Moss-PAS (ID) is designed to provide highly reliable information on psychiatric symptoms in adults, usually by informant interview. It not a screening instrument, but is a sophisticated assessment, which uses a glossary of symptom definitions to guide the coding. | The Moss-PAS (ID) can be used to collect symptom information directly from an informant via a semi structured interview procedure, or can be completed on the basis of knowledge already possessed about the individual. |
| The Moss-PAS (ChA) can be used to interview an informant, or a young person, or both together. | Participants will receive a certificate for completing the course, and will be entered on the international register of authorized users of the PAS-ADD assessments. |
Course Programme
A summary of what the course will cover:
- Discussion of issues relating to mental health assessment in the general population and in people with ID
- Discussion of vulnerability factors
- Discussion of issues relating to case recognition, and introduction to the Moss-PAS (Check)
- Using the Moss-PAS (Check) – the first group exercise
- Discussion of the results of the first exercise, and implications for improving the quality of assessment
- Discussion of multiple approaches to assessment
- Making psychiatric diagnoses
- Introducing the Moss-PAS interviews, printed versions and digital ones
- Learning to use the digital version of Moss-PAS (ID)
- First exercise in rating a written case description of an adult
- Introduction to the Moss-PAS (ChA) – (The child and adolescent version)
- Differential diagnosis – ADHD or bipolar-disorder?
- Second exercise: Rating a written case description of a child
- Instruction in using the Moss-PAS assessments to interview an informant
- First interviewing exercise
- Starting the interview
- Making the ratings
- Getting a scored report
- Instruction around using the items for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and Autism
- Rating exercise using these items – Is it OCD, ASD, or neither?
- Second interviewing exercise
- Introduction to Conduct Disorder
- Rating exercise on a possible case of Conduct Disorder
- Brief introduction to rating psychosis.
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