Diagnostic & Assessment

Diagnostic and assessment work is about meaning-making—supporting accurate understanding while honoring the complexity of each client’s lived experience. Learn from experts how to approach diagnosing clients and conducting assessments without compromising the therapeutic relationship.

It is possible to get the diagnostic data you need during the first session – and in a way that leaves clients feeling like they want to come back for a second session. Through step-by-step clinical demonstrations, you’ll develop client-oriented diagnostic interviewing skills that lay the foundation for a strong therapeutic alliance and successful course of treatment. This online course includes 10 hours of video featuring clinical demonstrations of 11 diagnoses, TR updated criteria and codes, 9.5 CEs & more!

Cover image for the online course, The DSM-5 andf Psychodiagnostic Interviewing, with TR Updates

Learn from the field's leading voices

Watch Jason Buckles, John Sommers-Flanagan, Rita Sommers-Flanagan, Timothy Bruce, Arthur Jongsma, Jr., and other experts as they demonstrate assessments and how to gather diagnostic data in conversations with clients.

See real therapy in action

Featuring clinical demonstrations and sessions with real clients, you’ll see how seasoned practitioners balance the human side of diagnosing and the clinical side of assessments.

Explore a broad spectrum of diagnoses

Get evidence-based resources for diagnosing bipolar disorder, depression, alcohol use disorder, anorexia, schizophrenia, borderline personality disorder, PTSD, adjustment, generalized anxiety and panic disorders, as well as suicidal and self-harm clients.

Get CE that does more than just satisfy requirements

Discover continuing education that satisfies your curiosity, inspires your clinical practice, shapes your therapeutic presence, and fosters your professional growth.