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What happend just before the behavior |
A-ntecedent |
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It relies on the observer's recollection, as well as, interpretation, of events. |
Informal observation |
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Can distort any observational data |
Reactivity |
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Reaction |
Behavior |
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What happened afterward |
Consequences |
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Involves identifying specific behaviors that are observable and measurable. |
Formal observation |
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Formal observation |
Operational definitions |
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Include variety of methods in which ambiguous stimuli, such as pictures of people or things, are presented to people who are asked to describe what they see. |
Projective tests |
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People project their own personality and unconscious fears onto ambiguous stimuli without realizing it, reveal their umconscious thoughts to tge therapist. |
Projective tests |
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Most widely used personality inventory in US. |
MMPI |
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MMPI items then and now |
Then: 550 Now: 567 (MMPI-2) |
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Using direct observation to assess formally an individual's thoughts, feelings, and behavior in specific situations or contexts. |
Behavioral Assessment |
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Ways for Assessing Behavior |
*Clinicians go to the person's home or workplace to observe the person and reported problems directly. *Set-up role play simulations in a clinical setting to see how people might behave in a similar situations in their daily lives. |
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Self observation |
Self monitoring |
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The goal is to help clients monitor their behavior more conveniently, the people with the problem are in the best position to observe their own behavior throughout the day. |
Self monitoring |
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Used as assessment tools before treatment and then periodically during treatment to assess changes in the person's behavior. |
Checklists and behavior rating scales |
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More formal and structured way to observe behavior |
Checklists and behavior rating scales |
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Calculated by using the child's mental age. |
Intelligence quotient |
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Measures abilities in areas such as receptive and expressive language, attention, and concentration, memory, motor skills perceptual abilities, and learning and abstraction in such a waybthat thr clinicians can make an educated guess about the person's performance and possible existence of brain impairment. |
Neuropsychological testing |
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Child is given a series of cards on which are drawn various lines and shapes. |
Bender visual-motor gestalt test |
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Shows the structure of the brain-slice on a TV screen, it determines whether there are abnormalities like swelling and enlargement of certain parts. |
Computerized Axial Tomography |
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It shows the structures of the brain in a more detailed view. |
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance |
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Determines the brain areas involved in the mental activities, through injecting a slightly radioactive solution into blood and then measuring the amount of radiation absorbed by the brain cells. |
Positron Emission Tomography |
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Refers to measurable changes in the nervous system that reflect emotional or psychological events. |
Psychophysiology |
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Electrodes are places directly on various places on the scalp to record the different low-voltage currents. |
Electroencephalogram |
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Measure of sweat gland activity controlled by the peripheral nervous system. |
Galvanic Skin Response |
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Refers to the likely future course of a disorder under certain conditions. |
Prognosis |
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If we want to determine what is unique about an individual's personality, cultural background or circumstamces. |
Idiographic strategy |
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When we take advantage of the information already accumulated on a particular problem or disorder, we must be able to determine a general class of problems to which the presenting problem belongs. |
Nomothetic strategy |
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The systematic evaluation and measurement of psychological, biological and social factors in an individual presenting with a possible psychological disorder. |
Clinical Assessment |
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Process of determining whether the particular problem afflicting the individual meets all criteria for a psychological disorder set in DSM V. |
Diagnosis |
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Involves o servation of an individual's behavior. |
The Mental Status Exam |
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Clinicians notes any overt physical behaviors. |
Appearance and Behavior |
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What is the rate or flow of speech? Does the person talk slowly or quickly? What about the continuity of speech, is he making sense? |
Thought process |
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The predominant feeling state of the individual. |
Mood |
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Refers to the feeling state that accompanies what we say at a given point. |
Affect |
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Reasonable vocabulary, memory, sensibility of statements. |
Intellectual functioning |
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Refers to our general awareness of our surroundings. |
Sensorium |
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Made up of questions that have been carefully phrased and tested to elicit useful information in a consistent manner so that clinicians can be sure that they have inquired about the most important aspects of particular disorders. |
Semistructured clinical interview |
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Disadvantage of sistructured clinical interview |
It robs the interview of some of the spontaneous quality of two people talking about a problem. |
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Many problems presenting as disorders of behavior, cognition or mood may, on careful physical examination, have a clear relationship to a temporary toxic state. |
Physical Examination |
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This toxic state could be caused by bad food, wrong amount or type of medicine or onset of onset of medicational condition. |
Physical examination |
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Deprrssion |
Hypothyroidism |
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Psychotic symptoms such as delusions or hallucinations. |
Development of brain tumor |
