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From today we are pleased to offer a selection of newly revised BPS Level A, Level B and Level A/B crammer courses. Please use the links below for further information on course content, dates, and pricing.

• BPS Level A Training
• BPS Level B Training
• BPS Level A & B Combined Training.

All courses are delivered in London (Victoria) and in partnership with Psysoft.

To discuss your training requirements with a member of our sales team, call us on 01865 402 900.

Alternatively, use our contact form.

A five day intensive training course for Paediatricians & Psychologists which offers demonstrations, videos/ DVDs and lectures/discussions to cover the issues involved in the administration, reporting and use of both the Baby [revised 0-2] and Extended [revised 2-8] for assessing mental development in infants and young children.

*The Ruth Griffiths Scales are viewed as an enabling system to precisely:

1. observe the nature of the interactions of children with their environment.
2. track the emergence of the developing functions into differentiated specialised skills and their organisational patterns leading to the ability to control, direct, and modify through the interactive behaviour/performance patterns which, incidentally, also reveal their underlying neuro-motor function.
3. evaluate the whole individual mental development and in its profile manifestations

*Observation/testing of the child’s behaviour/performance is presented as an attempt to evaluate the infant’s/child’s interactive within a normative framework of reference, and participants are reminded that they and the infant/child they are observing have similar interactive processing systems.

The aim of the course is threefold:

1. introduce the work of Ruth Griffiths and the psychological basis of mental measurement/
2. demonstrate and teach the testing procedures required to achieve reliability.
3. to evaluate the level of proficiency in the user of the scales. To this end each participant is given at least 4 practice sessions with both babies and children, and is expected to present at least 2 written reports. There are also some short test papers and practical exercises on test material usage.

Books required during the course:
GMDS-ER 2006 Administration Manual
GMDS-ER 2006 Analysis Manual
GMDS from birth to 2 years – 1996 revision Manual

Books recommended as Pre-Course Reader:
Testing Children – A practitioner’s guide to the Assessment of Mental Development in Infants and Young Children. P. Preston 2006: ISBN 0-88937-296-9, Publishers: Hogrefe.

To book your seat, please the ARICD website

Please note that our offices will be shut from the 23rd Dec -3rd of Jan 2012.

Orders can continue to be placed via our web shop and will be dispatched first thing in the new year.

We wish everyone a Happy Christmas & New Year.

The Hogrefe Team

The PPM ability test series is a flexible portfolio of nine ability tests. Since last week, new versions of the online output reports have been released and are now available to download from within your TA online account. Example reports from several of the tests are provided below: 

• PPM – Numerical Reasoning Sample Report
• PPM – Verbal Comprehension Sample Report
• PPM – Spatial Ability – Sample Report

New test completions will automatically use this revised report format and the old style will no longer be available. Existing PPM users will also be able to render a report, already completed, in the new/updated format.

If you’re an existing or new customer and would like to discuss the changes with a member of our team, please call us on 01865 402 900. To begin using the test series, please click here to register for a free online account.

We hope you like the new report format and welcome any feedback.

The Hogrefe Team

Learn how to administer, interpret and feedback scores on Hogrefe’s cutting edge tool for measuring the risk of discriminatory behaviour. Implicitly is the first commercial test to not only measure social bias but to link it to real world discriminatory behaviours. This one-day course allows users from all levels, from entry level HR professionals to Psychologist and Coaches, to become accredited in the use of Implicitly.

Future 2012 dates include:

• 20^th of January
• 20^th April
• 20^th July
• 30^th November

Course fee – £240 +VAT per person.

To book, please contact our customer support team on 01865 402 900 or complete our contact us form.

* Discounts available on multiple course bookings

We are pleased to be offering an additional NEO PI-R training course this January. 

New and future 2011/12 training dates now include:

• 7th December 2011 (Fully booked)
• 11th January 2012
• 1st March 2012
• 13th June 2012
• 19th September 2012

Rates – £250 + VAT per person, was £480 (includes all course materials, NEO manual and refreshments + lunch).

Location – Hogrefe Oxford Offices (Oxford Business Park South).

*Available to those who are already BPS Level B trained.

Please contact customer support on 01865 402 900 to reserve your seat.

An additional 10% discount is also available on multiple bookings.

Use promo code PSI10%, at the checkout, to receive 10% off Parenting Stress Index (PSI) kits. Offer expires 30/11/11. 

The PSI is designed for the early identification of parenting and family characteristics that fail to promote normal development and functioning in children, children with behavioural and emotional problems and parents who are at risk of dysfunctional parenting. It can be used with parents of children as young as 1 month.

One in six (16%) workers feel they have been discriminated against when applying for a job or promotion at some point in their career because of favouritism in the workplace according to a survey we carried out earlier in the year.

The findings from the research back up a little-known theory that there is a tendency for people to recruit workers who bear similarities to themselves or to others in their company and this is done, for the most part, unconsciously. 

These workshops will provide an in-depth look at unconscious bias. The session will be led by Harish Bhayani, Principal, PRM Diversity Consultants who provide specialist diversity support for organisations and individuals in all sectors and Hannah Markson, Psychologist, Hogrefe who publish more than 700 scientifically developed, objective psychometric tools for business, health and education professionals.

The course will help you measure and manage unconscious bias so that doesn’t affect your organisational performance.  Areas of vulnerability include, for example, diversity/equality/inclusion initiatives, recruitment, employee development, talent management, marketing, sales, procurement, day to day operations in all departments, leadership, governance, compliance, strategic decision-making, learning & development, legal and policy development.   

The session will cover:

• What unconscious bias is
• How it undermines performance
• Vulnerabilities for your organisation
• Best practice approaches
• Implicitly – how organisations are using this psychometric tool to measure the likelihood of discriminatory behaviour as a result of unconscious bias
• Organisational benefits of measuring and managing unconscious bias

Cost: £99+VAT for EFA/EFB members £175+VAT non members

BOOK NOW (Places are limited): 

Start time: 10am-2pm or 1pm-5pm including lunch 1pm-2pm for both groups

1st November (Old Street, London)/ 2nd November (BT offices, St Paul’s, London)

Spectra – A structured program for early childhood therapists working with autism. Spectra aims to teach children many of the pivotal skills that are necessary for independent living and ultimately integrate them in mainstream school.  It is suitable for Psychologists, Speech & Language therapists, Early Childhood Educators, Special Needs teachers & Parents with children with Autistic Spectrum Disorders.

Success & Dyslexia - A program designed to be incorporated into the curriculum and the culture of the school.  It focuses on three areas of functioning: coping awareness, positive thinking & assertiveness. The book with accompany CD has been tailored for students in the upper primary years.

Making sense of Asperger’s - A Story for Children is a practical resource that is both insightful and useful. It invites children to contribute to the discussion about Asperger’s syndrome. This book will appeal to individual students as a self-help material that provides practical tips and solutions, to Counsellors, Parents and is also designed to be used in a classroom.

Please contact Elena Georgakopoulou for more information and to pre order.

Use the promo code WRIT2011 at the checkout to get 10% off  the WRAT4 introductory kit and WRIT complete kit. Offer available until the end of October.

Alternatively, contact our customer support team on 01865 402 900 to place your order over the phone.