THE PLEA TO PEARSON:
My name is Megan Kelly and I am currently a third year Peace Corps Volunteer in Lesotho, a small mountain Kingdom in sub-Saharan Africa. I work at Baylor Centre of Excellence, which is a clinic for children, adolescents, and their parents who are infected with HIV/AIDS. Peace Corps is a United States volunteer program that aims to build capacity at the grassroots level. As a volunteer, I work with Lebohang Bereng who is my local counterpart. I have my masters degree in Clinical Psychology and she has hers in Counseling Psychology.
Currently in Lesotho there are only 5 psychologists for the entire country and all have a masters degree as their highest attained qualification. Most of them work in the main government hospital and the psychiatric hospital. In general, the mental health effort in Lesotho has been directed towards those with serious psychosis, however Baylor is looking to provide psychological support in other realms as well. Lesotho has the 3rd highest HIV/AIDS rate in the world and a large portion of those infected/affected are children and adolescents. Because of this, Baylor has developed a new program to strengthen clinical services across the entire country. In order to better serve patients, both children and some of the parents, we are hoping to obtain a set of basic psychometric assessment kits to aid in the assessment, diagnosing, and treating of our patients. I did my graduate school practicum with Pearson in San Antonio and also have training through my clinical psychology program. Lebohang Bereng also studied, administered, and interpreted a host of psychometric tests so she is familiar with the more common tests.
Because we are a small clinic and our program is quite new, we have very limited funds. I contacted old colleagues in San Antonio to see what help they may be able to offer us, and then we were referred to you. Please let me know what of assistance is available, if anything. We greatly appreciate your time and your help.
Please feel free to read my blog, as it outlines and discusses the sort of population we work with. Keep in mind it is a personal blog, and therefore refers to a host of other issues non-work related.
I look forward to hearing from you!
-Megan Kelly
Currently in Lesotho there are only 5 psychologists for the entire country and all have a masters degree as their highest attained qualification. Most of them work in the main government hospital and the psychiatric hospital. In general, the mental health effort in Lesotho has been directed towards those with serious psychosis, however Baylor is looking to provide psychological support in other realms as well. Lesotho has the 3rd highest HIV/AIDS rate in the world and a large portion of those infected/affected are children and adolescents. Because of this, Baylor has developed a new program to strengthen clinical services across the entire country. In order to better serve patients, both children and some of the parents, we are hoping to obtain a set of basic psychometric assessment kits to aid in the assessment, diagnosing, and treating of our patients. I did my graduate school practicum with Pearson in San Antonio and also have training through my clinical psychology program. Lebohang Bereng also studied, administered, and interpreted a host of psychometric tests so she is familiar with the more common tests.
Because we are a small clinic and our program is quite new, we have very limited funds. I contacted old colleagues in San Antonio to see what help they may be able to offer us, and then we were referred to you. Please let me know what of assistance is available, if anything. We greatly appreciate your time and your help.
Please feel free to read my blog, as it outlines and discusses the sort of population we work with. Keep in mind it is a personal blog, and therefore refers to a host of other issues non-work related.
I look forward to hearing from you!
-Megan Kelly
THE RESPONSE FROM PEARSON IN SHORT:
I have spoken to everyone in our management team and they all agree that we should support you by providing all of the assessments you have listed. Please can you send me the full address details?
Wechsler Intelligence Scales for Pre-schoolers, Children, and Adults
Beck Youth Inventories- Second Edition for Children and Adolescents (BYI-II)
Coping Inventory for Stressful Situations (CISS)
Draw a Person (DAP)
Resiliency Scales for Children and Adolescents Childhood Trauma Questionnaire (CTQ)
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory- Adolescent (MMPI-A)
Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales, Second Edition (Vineland-II)
Social Skills Improvement System (SSiS)
2 comments:
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You go girl - this is awesome!!!!!
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