CE Credits 21

Date: Thursday, September 23 – Sunday, September 26, 2010
Location: Asheville, North Carolina
Hotel: Doubletree Biltmore Hotel
115 Hendersonville Road, Asheville, NC, 28803
The hotel is one block from the entrance to the historic Biltmore Estate and within walking distance of the Biltmore Village shops.
Single/Double Guest Room Rate @$115.00
For reservations call: 1-828-274-1800 and refer to “Rorschach Training Programs”
Cut off Date for discounted room rate is August 3, 2010

Registration Fee: $650.00

Presenters: RTP Directors and Other Invited Speakers

Program Description:
The Program will begin at 8:00AM Thursday, September 23 and end on Sunday, September 26 at 12:15 PM. The Reunion Program is open to all those who have participated in previous Rorschach Workshops and/or Rorschach Training Programs. It is an opportunity to participate in interpreting complicated protocols, share views with other experienced Rorschachers, and hear updates from a variety of invited speakers.

Discussion topics will include: Current Issues Regarding the Comprehensive System and Presentation of Case Protocols. Special events include a roundtable discussion of the future of the Comprehensive System and a party on Friday evening hosted by Drs Sciara and Vargo.

Faculty members are Barry Ritzler, Anthony Sciara, Anita Boss, Irving Weiner, and Chris Fowler. We welcome back Irving Weiner who will present a case on Friday morning. Irv served two terms as the President of the Society for Personality Assessment and one term as President of the International Rorschach Society. For many years Irv was a featured instructor for Rorschach Workshops and co-authored, with John Exner, the child and adolescent voloume for the Comprehensive System. A special guest speaker will be Chris Fowler who has done important research at Austin Riggs on the Suicide Constellation from the Comprehensive System. In addition to being a staff member at Austin Riggs, Chris is a member of the Society of Persoanlaity Assessment and a previous member of the Research Council for the Comprehensive System. Chris will discuss his suicide research and also present a suicide case.

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In 1966 Weiner, Exner and Sciara published an article “Is the Rorschach Welcome in the Courtroom?” [1] The article reported on a survey of almost 8000 federal and state court cases in which psychologists presented Rorschach testimony. That survey revealed in only six cases was the appropriateness of the Rorschach challenged and in only one case was the testimony not admitted. The conclusion of the study was clearly that the Rorschach is welcome in the courtroom. That study is now 14 years old and a similar study should be initiated to explore if there are different rates of acceptance now.

Click here to read the entire article: THE RORSCHACH COMPREHENSIVE SYSTEM USE IN THE FORENSIC SETTING

CE Credits 35

Date: Monday, June 13 – Friday, June 17, 2011
Location: Long Island University, New York City
Registration Fee: $825.00

Presenters: Barry Ritzler, PhD; Anthony Sciara, PhD

Registration will be available by November 1, 2010. Watch for details to be posted on the RTP Website and published in upcoming Newsletters.

Program Description: This training program provides the equivalent of one semester of graduate training in the Rorschach Comprehensive System (35 hours) – a minimum standard for competence with the method, set by the Society of Personality Assessment. The program is designed to teach participants adequate procedures for the administration of the method. It also teaches the criteria and guidelines for coding that take participants to a level of competence near the expert level. Furthermore, it introduces participants to a knowledge of interpretation procedures that prepares them for a second semester equivalent in training, (e.g. an advanced Rorschach Training Program) that will take them to an expert level of competence in all phases of the method (administration, coding, and interpretation).

Participant Preparation for the Beginning Training Program
Program materials will be mailed 4-6 weeks prior to the training program. Reading and pre-training program protocol scoring is required.

Materials Provided to Participants in the Beginning Level Training Program:
1. The Rorschach Workbook for the Comprehensive System, 5th Ed. (RW, 2001)
2. A Primer for Rorschach Interpretation (RW, 2000)

Recommended reading (not required):
The Rorschach: A Comprehensive System, Vol I, 4th Edition
The Rorschach: A Comprehensive System Interpretation, Vol II, 3rd Edition

Books are available from:
John Wiley & Sons, INC
605 Third Avenue
New York, NY, 10158-0012

Program Schedule: On the first day of the program, registration begins at 8:00 AM (local time). Each day of the program, instruction begins at 8:30AM and ends at 5:15PM, with a lunch break from 12:15-1:45PM. If travel arrangements demand, participants may depart early on Sunday, but must stay through noon that day to receive Continuing Education credits.

Anthony D. Sciara, PhD, ABPP

In 1966 Weiner, Exner and Sciara published an article “Is the Rorschach Welcome in the Courtroom?” The article reported on a survey of almost 8000 federal and state court cases in which psychologists presented Rorschach testimony. That survey revealed in only six cases was the appropriateness of the Rorschach challenged and in only one case was the testimony not admitted. The conclusion of the study was clearly that the Rorschach is welcome in the courtroom. That study is now 14 years old and a similar study should be initiated to explore if there are different rates of acceptance now.

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INSIDE THIS EDITION

• 2010 Training Schedule
• New Article Online
• Meetings of Interest

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The Rorschach Comprehensive System as developed by John E. Exner, Jr., Ph.D. has been the predominant system in use for administration, coding and interpretation of the Rorschach since shortly after its inception in 1974. Dr. Exner died in 2006 leaving Rorschach Workshops, the legal rights to all his writings, and all his files to his family. While Rorschach Workshops still continues to sell his books and forms, there is no psychologist in the family to continue research, writing, and publication of new information.

This article will look at the impact his death will have on the Comprehensive System (CS). For whatever reason, Dr. Exner did not appoint a successor. The lack of an identified successor to continue CS research has left a leadership void. There is a current initiative by some psychologists to develop a new system for use with the Rorschach. This plan for the development of a new system will be discussed along with how the CS will continue to grow and change in the future.

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• Participant Feedback From the 2009 Reunion Program
• An Administration Tip
• Next RTP Program

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• Participant Feedback From the 2009 Reunion Program
• An Administration Tip
• Next RTP Program

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