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The winner of the iPad 2 raffle is Mr T. Dixon of Edinburgh. Hogrefe Ltd would like thank Mr Dixon and all of the other volunteers who completed the test as the data collection has greatly helped our research. We appreciate the time, effort and feedback provided by the volunteers.

Best wishes,

The Hogrefe Ltd team

Hogrefe are pleased to announce the distribution of the Parenting Stress Index™, Fourth Edition (PSI™-4) by Richard R. Abidin, EdD. Designed to evaluate the level and impact of stress in the parent-child relationship, the PSI™-4 focuses on three major domains of the stressor source: child characteristics, parent characteristics, and situational life stress.

The PSI™-4 has been updated with the following:

• Improved psychometric characteristics of individual items and updated item wording to more clearly tap into the target construct or behavioural pattern. The original structure has been retained.
• Analysis of validation studies conducted within a variety of foreign populations, including Chinese, Portuguese, French Canadian, Finnish and Dutch, indicate that the PSI is a robust measure that maintains its validity with diverse non-English speaking cultures.
• Expanded norms are organised by each year of child age. Percentiles—the primary interpretive framework for the PSI™-4—and T-scores are also provided.

For more information on the PSI-4 and to view prices, please click here.

We will soon be stocking the second edition of the Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule (ADOS-2).

To be notified once it has been released and to receive further information about pre-ordering your new ADOS-2 kit, please click here.

Hogrefe are pleased to be exhibiting at the annual HRD Conference at London Olympia for the fourth year running. The conference is taking place today and tomorrow so if you’re also attending then please do come and see us. We’re on stand 510 so drop by to have a chat about our product range, hear about upcoming plans for Hogrefe or just to say hello, we’d love to see you.

We are pleased to annouce that we are currently recruiting for the position of Duty Psychologist. Please click here for more information.

Unconscious Bias is a ‘hot topic’ for employers. Dr Pete Jones, author of Implicitly, the UK’s most authoritative figure on the subject, and Tinu Cornish will present findings from a recent ENEI research project which seeks to identify the nature of bias within the performance management process.

This session is part of a bigger event called ‘Tomorrow’s Workplaces’, delivered by ENEI, which brings together leading thinkers and national experts to explore the key issues and challenges facing 21st Century employers.

• Date: 14 March 2012
• Time 09.00-17.00
• Venue: BT Centre, 81 Newgate Street, London EC1A 7AJ

Click here to book your seat and to get a comprehensive event overview.

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