Wechsler's Anonymous

Slide 1: THE WECHSLER’S ANONYMOUS TWELVE STEP PROGRAM (Brian Stone, 1996, personal communication)

Slide 2: WARNING: The psychologist general has determined that this presentation may contain content which is detrimental to some conceptions of intelligence This presentation is rated R. It contains data and ideas that may threaten the Wechsler conditioned psyche of some psychologists. Viewer discretion is advised.

Slide 3: THE INERTIA OF TRADITION Moses may have gone to the mountain to get the ten commandments, but where is it written that David Wechsler went to the mountain to get the twelve subtests? (McGrew, 1986)

Slide 4: WECHSLER’S ANONYMOUS - STEP 1 • We admitted we • We admitted we are powerless over were powerless alcohol--that our over our lives had become Wechslers--that unmanageable our assessments had become unmanageable

Slide 5: WECHSLER’S ANONYMOUS - STEP 2 • We came to believe • We came to that tests existed that believe that a were greater than Power greater Wechsler, and that than ourselves these tests could could restore us to restore us to sanity sanity

Slide 6: WECHSLER’S ANONYMOUS - STEP 3 • We made a • We made a decision to turn decision to turn our will and our our assessment lives over to the lives over to other care of God as we publishing understood companies, as we him/her understood them

Slide 7: WECHSLER’S ANONYMOUS - STEP 4 • We made a • We made a searching and searching shared fearless moral abilities analysis inventory of and strengths and ourselves weaknesses inventory of ourselves and our instruments

Slide 8: WECHSLER’S ANONYMOUS - STEP 5 • We admitted to • We admitted to God, to ourselves, publishing and to another companies, human being the ourselves, and exact nature of others our our wrongs indefensible overreliance on tradition

Slide 9: WECHSLER’S ANONYMOUS - STEP 6 • We were entirely • We were entirely ready to have God ready to ask remove all these graduate schools to defects of remove these character defects from their syllabi

Slide 10: WECHSLER’S ANONYMOUS - STEP 7 • We humbly asked the • We humbly asked special ed. directors to Him/Her to show us other remove our approved tests, or how shortcomings to go about approving them, and we removed tests with major shortcomings and total lack of empirical support

Slide 11: WECHSLER’S ANONYMOUS - STEP 8 • We made a list of • We made a list of all persons we had all persons we had harmed, and given Wechslers to, become willing to and how they had make amends to benefited, if at all them all

Slide 12: WECHSLER’S ANONYMOUS - STEP 9 • We made direct • We apologized to amends to such those persons, and people wherever gave them tests possible, except that measured when to do so additional factors would injure them or others

Slide 13: WECHSLER'S ANONYMOUS-STEP 10 • We continued to • We continued to take personal research our other inventory and tests and when when we were appropriate, we wrong promptly admitted it would admitted it be okay to give a Wechsler under certain conditions

Slide 14: WECHSLER’S ANONYMOUS-STEP 11 • We sought through • We sought more prayer and strength for meditation to carrying better and improve our heavier test kits conscious contact with God...praying wherever we went only for knowledge of His/Her will for us and the power to carry that out

Slide 15: WECHSLER’S ANONYMOUS-STEP 12 • Having had a • Having had this spiritual awakening psychometric as the result of these awakening, we Steps, we tried to tried to carry this carry this message to message to other alcoholics, and to school practice these psychologists principles in all our affairs