Clinical Psychological Assessment
23 important questions on Clinical Psychological Assessment
What can provide the first step in thinking about the causes of treatment, and is often the first step in planning treatment?
How do we call a process of testing that uses a combination of techniques to help arrive at a hypothesis about a person and their behavior, personality, and capabilities?
Why are diagnosis and assessment important first steps in psychopathology?
- a good diagnosis is critical for good clinical care
- having a diagnosis can cause feelings of relief in the patient, helps with understanding their own symptoms.
- a diagnosis helps researchers and therapists communicate
- research on causes and treatments require a diagnosis
- assessment is necessary to make a diagnosis
- assessment can give additional information about the patient besides the diagnosis.
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What are the cornerstones of diagnosis and assessment?
- reliability
- validity
What is the term for consistency of measurement, the same results are acquired with every measurement?
How do we call the extend to which people observed several times receive similar scores?
Which kind of validity is described; the degree to which predictions can be made about behavior of patients with the same disorder.
Which kind of validity is described; the degree to which, among patients with the same diagnosis, previously undiscovered characteristics are found.
Which kind of validity is described; the degree to which a test adequately samples a particular domain.
Which kind of validity is described; the degree to which scores on a test are linked to other variables or behaviors suggested by theories or hypotheses.
What are changes made in the transition from the dsm 4 to dsm 5?
- the multiaxal system is removed
- diagnoses are organized by causes
- sensitivity to the development nature of psychopathology is strengthened
- new diagnoses were included
- some diagnoses were combined
- ethnic and cultural factors are considered
Which two types of classification are used in dsm 5?
- categorical classification; forces therapists to define one threshold as diagnosable
- a dimensional structure; describes the extend to which the entity is present.
How do we call the subjective experience of distress in response to perceived problems in the environment?
Which assessment is widely used to study life stressors?
What is a projective test used for?
- inkblots are shown and the patient has to tell what they are
- shows patients true attitudes, motivations, and behaviors due to unconscious answering.
What are intelligence tests used for?
- diagnose learning abilities and areas of strengths and weaknesses
- help assess wether an individual has an intellectual disability
- find out if a child is intellectually gifted
- part of neuropsychological testing
What are other factors that determine wether a person will do good in school besides IQ?
- family and circumstances
- motivation
- expectation
- performance anxiety
- difficulty of courses
What do cognitive and behavioral assessments measure?
- characteristics of an individual
- frequency and type of problem behavior
- consequences of problem behavior
- elements of the environment that might contribute to symptoms
How do we call the principle of changing behavior because it is being observed?
What are neurobiological assessments?
What is the difference between a neurologist, and a neuropsychologist?
- n; a specialist in diseases that affect the nervous system
- p; studies how impairments or disfunctions in the brain affect people.
What are neuropsychological assessments used for?
What are the functions of psychophysiological assessments?
measure activities of the autonomous nervous system
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