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Psychological Assessment
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The process through which clinicians use psychological tests, observation, and interviews to arrive at a summary of the clients symptoms and problems.
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An EEG measures
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Brain Waves
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A CAT scan
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detects hemorrhaging, detects structural things
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MRI
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Also structural like the CAT scan, but shows a clearer image, it shows slices.
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PET
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Picks up on radiation, after you have radioactive water in you, the scan can work, showing different colors for different activity in the brain
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fMRI
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You get the colors of a PET scan, shows in slices as well, slightly more clear than the PET
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Structured Interview
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The questions remain relevant of the symptoms that the patient reports, they take a very long time
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Unstructured
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You dont have a predetermined structure for the interview, you ask them as you see they become relevant
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Clinical Observation
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What can be observed in the clients while in their environment. Like kid in classroom, to see if they really do have ADD/ADHD (they can use observation, in session behaviors, role-playing, and self-monitoring)
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Intelligence tests
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Stanford Binet- first one developed that is still used.
Weschler- takes a very long time to administer, but it is the most widely used. |
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Personality Tests
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Ink Blot, Thematic appreciation test (TAT), sentence completion test, draw a person test.
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The MMPI
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A lot of true false questions, many of the questions if answered in a certain way have a correlation with different disorders.
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The three models of classification
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Dimensional, Prototypal, and Categorical.
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Dimensional
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Assumes a persons typical behavior is a result of differing strengths of dimensions like mood, emotional stability, aggressiveness, and gender identity, (suggests there are varied levels of depression for different patients.)
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Classification
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You take the ideal case of depression or something, and compare the person to that
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Categorical
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Assumes that within disorder, there are no overlapping classes or types
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We use what two things to classify disorders?
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DSM, and the ICD you dont need all the symptoms to have a disease.
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