skilldevelopment.cpe@lpu.co.in

What you'll learn

By the end of this course, participants will be able to: 1. Demonstrate practical skills in TAT administration with professional standards. 2. Accurately interpret themes, conflicts, and dynamics in TAT stories. 3. Apply TAT findings to understand personality structure and functioning. 4. Use TAT data for diagnosis, treatment planning, and psychological profiling. 5. Exhibit professional ethics in projective testing and client feedback.

  • Overview of projective tests difference between objective and projective tests/methods, Relevance of TAT in psychological assessment, Ethical issues and informed consent
  • TAT, Henry Murray’s Need-Press theory, Development of TAT and its evolution, Thematic and dynamic approach to personality, Variations of TAT (CAT, SAT, PAT, etc.)
  • Description of TAT cards, Stimulus properties and symbolic representations, Age, gender, and cultural considerations
  • Standardized instructions, Rapport building, Recording responses, Ethical administration and confidentiality, Adaptations for special populations
  • Story elements: hero, needs, press, outcomes, tone, Identifying motives (achievement, power, affiliation, intimacy), Narrative structure and emotional tone analysis, Introduction to Murray’s and Bellak’s scoring systems
  • Murray’s Need-Press analysis, Bellak’s TAT system, Westen’s Social-Cognitive approach, Coding for motivation and defense mechanisms, Cross-cultural interpretation issues
  • Case-based interpretation, TAT in personality disorders, neurosis, and psychosis, TAT in counseling, HR, SSB selection, and leadership assessment, Integrating TAT with other tools (Rorschach, MMPI, 16PF, etc.)
  • Structure of TAT interpretive reports, Linking TAT findings with case data, Giving constructive feedback to clients, Ethics in report dissemination
  • Practice sessions: administration & scoring, Group discussions of anonymized TAT protocols, Supervised interpretation exercises, Practicum and Case Studies
  • Administration and scoring, Group discussions of anonymized TAT protocols, Supervised interpretation exercises

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Dr. Mridula Mishra
Professor

Dr. Mridula Mishra, Professor of Psychology, Lovely Professional University, Phagwara, Punjab. Dr. Mridula Mishra has done her Ph.D. from Banaras Hindu University (BHU), Varanasi in Psychology. Her Ph.D. was on Rorschach Inkblot Test and SIS. She is the first scholar in the world who did Ph.D. on SIS. She has received three times the SIS Best Paper Award in 1992, 1996, and 2000-, and two-times SIS Best Research Award in 2006 and 2008 from SIS Centre, 2020 Muldoon Rd, # 317, Anchorage, Alaska. 99504. USA. She has also received the best paper award in 2020 for the paper title “Reimagining Indian IT sector to achieve $ 5 Trillion aspiration for India by 2025” from UPES India. Dr. Mridula Mishra has more than 26 years of experience in academics, research, and hospitals. In the journey of her academic and professional life, more than 10 M.Phil. and 17 Ph.D students were guided by her. She has conducted more than 10 Ph.D. Viva for various Universities. Her interest areas of teaching and research are HR Analytics, Organizational Behaviour and Psychology. She has 75 research publications with citations 940, H-Index 14 and i10 Index 18 in various Emeralds and Scopus-indexed National and International Journals. She has approximately more than 39 FDP/ Workshop/Seminar attended, conducted, and organized on her expertise areas in India and Abroad. She has 7 professional memberships from various national and international organizations. Till the date she has published 25 Copyrights with the government of India.