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Psychological assessments |
Refers to a producer by which clinicians using psychological tests observation and interviews develop a summary of the client's symptoms and problems |
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Validity |
The extent to which a measuring instrument actually measures what it is supposed to measure |
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Reliability |
Describes the degree to which an assessment measure produces the same result each time it is used to evaluate the same thing |
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Standardization |
A process by which a psychological test is administered scored and interpreted in a consistent or standard manner |
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Clinical assessments |
The clinician provides an object description of the person's appearance and behavior,their personal hygiene, and emotional responses and any depression, anxiety, aggression, hallucinations, or delusions they may manifest |
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Intelligence test |
Test used in establishing a subjects level of intellectual capability |
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Projective personality tests |
Are unstructured in that they rely on various ambiguous stimuli such as inkblots or vague pictures rather than on explicit verbal questions and in that the person's responses are not limited to the true false or can't say variety |
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Minnesota multiphasic personality inventory (mmpi) |
Widely used and empirically validate personality scales |
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Resilience |
Healthy psychological and physical functioning after a potentially traumatic event |
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Type A personality |
Excessive competitive drive extreme commitment to work impatience or time urgency and hostility |
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Type D personality |
Have a tendency to experience negative emotions and also to feel insecure and anxious |
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Positive psychology |
Focuses on human traits and resources such as humor gratitude and compassion that might have direct implications for our physical and mental well-being |
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Psychological debriefing |
Designed to help and speed up the healing process in people who have experienced disasters or been exposed to other traumatic situations |
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Neurotic disorders |
Show maladaptive and self defeating behaviors they aren't incoherent dangerous or out of touch with reality |
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Participant modeling |
A technique used in psychotherapy where a counselor assists a client in learning desired or appropriate behaviors through modeling |
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Agoraphobia |
Most commonly feared and avoided situations include streets and crowded places such as shopping malls movie theaters and stores |
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Major depression |
Depressed mood most of the day. Diminished interest or pleasure. Significant weight loss or gain. Insomnia or hypersomnia. Psychomotor agitation. Loss of energy. Feelings of worthless. Diminished ability to think. Recurrent thoughts of suicide |
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Mood congruent |
Delusions or hallucinations that are consistent with a person's mood |
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Cyclothymic disorder |
Repeated experience of hypomanic symptoms for a period of at least 2 years |
