Clinical Psychology Test 2

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Case history review
gather important info

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prsenting concerns, family history, relationship,s edu, employment, substance use, mental health, med history and legal history

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how they are presenting themselves- what is it like to be with them?

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affect, energy, appearance, life story themes, attitude towards you

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mental status exam

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if thought to be concern to measure strengths and weaknesses

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evaulate

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have a set goal in mind
why is there a deficit? What is it due to?

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avoid

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interruptions to maintain confidentiality and comfort of patient

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rapport

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purpose of interview, comfortable atmosphere and mutual understanding of the interview- once patient realizes the clinician is trying to understand them a broader range of behaviors is possible- if patient accpepts this a state of mutual liking is not necessary

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in beginning a session

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small talk, determine roles , use language they will understand, clarify meanings, , assess the meaning of silence - could be organizing thoughts, dont jump to conclusions about patient and listen to what they are saying,

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avoid self centeredness in therapy

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focus must remain on the patient, must examine own experience and seek the bases for their own assumptions before making judgements of others

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references

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carefully go over all past paper work , establish the purpose of the interview,

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differing types of interviews

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sturctured or unstructured- ask any questions that come to mind

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the intake admission interview

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todetermine why patient has come to therapy, to see if facility meet needs and expectations of patient

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case history interview

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data, reason for coming, present situation, family, early recollection, birth and development, health, edu, work, recreation, sex marriage?, self- desrciption, turning points, future

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mental status exam

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assess preence of cog emotional or behav problems

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crsis interview

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hotlines etc.

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diagnostic interview

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standardized, interrater reliability, have preset questions that help the clinician be guided towards a diagnosis

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criterion related reliability

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ability of a masure to predict scores on other relevant measures

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discriminant reliability

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interviewers ability not to correlate with measures that are not theorectically related to the construct being measured

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construct validity

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all aspects of validity

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Determinig treatment plan

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done with client deterimne
nature of problem
wishes of client
training of therapist

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intellgience

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aggregated global capacity of the individual to act purposefully to think rationally and to deal effectively with environ

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intelligence is
one thing
multliple

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what do iq tests mean?

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good pedictor of school and occupational success
culturally limited

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nature sets upper and lower ends of potential range of intelligence

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nuture determines where within this range intelligence will fall: edu, environ, nutrition, family size, motivation

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assume intelligence is normally distributed
formula?

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Mental age/ cronilogical
if you get older but not smarter iq goes down

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lower iq
lower verbal
lower spatial and qual

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afri amer and hispan
men
women
gender biases as tied into the culture

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stanford binet

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verbal and non verbal

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wais

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full scale
verbal iq performance iq
verbal working mem
perceptual org processing speed

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purpose of psychological testing

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current functioning, confirm, refute, modify impressions of client, iden ther needs, monitor treatment, provide feedback

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relability
and validity in psychological testing

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measures the same construct
does it predict what you would want it to?

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psychological testing requires

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a variety of measures that may be looked at together, some coeeficent may be indistinguishable

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objective tests

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standard set of questions with fixed set of options

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advantages
disadvantages
of obj tests

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easy to score, administer, reliabile , economical
cant measure motivation, can be due to a variety of factors, easy to fake answers, reading abilty, dont look at context or content, may give socially appropriate answer

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content validation in personality assesment

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experts make up items they think are relevant

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empirical criterion keying

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identify items that distinguish b/t different groups can help in diagnosis

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factor analysis

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submit all items on a scale to factor analysis to see which items hang together and assess seperate factors- give factors that hang together names.

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contruct valididty

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combination of 3

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MMPI content validation

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gained from inventories experience and case histories

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validity scale

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fake answers
overly positive
faking good
infrequent responses near the end
inconsistent responses
tendency towards true

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MCMII

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milon clinical multiaxial inventorycontructive validity- pesonality styles, disorders, traits

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MCM II validity
validity scale
disclosure
desirability
debasement

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include questions everyone marks false
measure openness to sharing
tendency to potray in positive light
look bad

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MCMIIII clinical personality pattern scales
schizoid
aviodant
depressive
histronic
narcistic
antisocial
sadistic
compulsive
negativistic
masochistic

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Schizoid – social isolation
Avoidant – social detachment – approach-avoidance
Depressive – pessimism
Dependent – submissiveness, agreeableness
Histrionic – extraversion, acting out
Narcissistic – self-sufficiency, arrogance
Antisocial – acting out, mistrust, independence

Sadistic – aggression/hostility towards others
Compulsive – conscientiousness, restraint
Negativistic – resentment towards authority
Masochistic – poor self-image, tendency to seek relationships in which they will be hurt

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MCMIIIl
Sever personality pathology scales

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Schizotypal – fear of human contact, suspicion & mistrust of others
Borderline – instability of moods, relationships, self-image
Paranoid – suspicion, mistrust, superiority

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MCMIIIl
clinical syndromes scale

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anxiety
somatoform-physical
dysthimia
alcohol dependence
drug
post tramatic

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MCMIIIl
severe clinical scale

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Thought Disorder
Major Depression
Delusional Disorder

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MCMIIIl
intepretation

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Validity and Response Style
Description of personality style
Assess degree of personality dysfunction
Assess for presence of clinical disorders

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projective tests

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unstructured
unqiue aspects
freedom of repsonse
indirect

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neuropsychology

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study of the realtion b/t brain function and behavior

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neurological assessment

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non invasive method of describing brain functioing based on performance on stan test that shows accurate and sensitive indicators of brain behavior

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nuero assess can be used to

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identify deficits in cog functioning, location in brain, change

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brain impairment due to

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trama, tumors, concussion, contusion, degenerative disease, nutritional deficits, toxic disroders-poisoning, alcohol abuse

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wernicke

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fluent receptive

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broca

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non fluent expressive

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apraxia

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inability to perform certain voluntary movements

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agnosia

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disturbed sensory perception

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neurological damage +

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inappropriate affect, impaired judgement, loss of emotinoal and mental resilence,

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frontal lobe syndrome

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poor impulse control, social judgement, plannig, concern for consequence

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localization of function

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specifc brain area control specific behaviors

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equipotentiality

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idea that all areas of brain contibute to overall intellectual functioning

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neuro test interpretation

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compare results, intra patient, pattern analysis, stats

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single variables

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have little effect on human behavior

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Cog behav therapy

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focusing on behav and maladaptive thinking patterns that contribute to behav prob

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underlying premise

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problematic or disordered thoughts, changing unhelathy thoughts to lead to healthy change in behav and emotions

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depression stems from

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thoughts and attributions people have about events in their lives - what they are saying about them , maladaptive cog structures,

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cog schemas

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of how they view themselves the future and the world- reason for anxiety

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schemas are reinforced by

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cog errors- all or nothing, overgenelaize, discount pos, jumping to con, mind reading, should/ must statments, labeling,

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cog behav treatment

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treat core beliefs as a hypothesis rather than fact , encouraged to alter harmful attributions

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treatment examine validity of beliefs

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daily record
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evidence of belief
alt interpretations
implications if true
iden and correct cog errors
iden schemata
recog sch influence on behav
replace sch
anticipate future situations

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rational-emotive therapy
emotional disturbance is caused by

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irrationality in how ppl interprate events cayses prob emotional or behav consequences
OR
Activating events that tirgger belief> emtoinals and behav> consequences

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rat-emo
irrational beliefs

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rigid dogmatic, musts and oughts, unrealistic and overgeneralized

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12 common irrational beliefs

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All of the important people in my life must love and approve of me all of the time
I must be thoroughly competent
If you hurt or upset me, you are universally bad and need to be punished
If things don’t go my way, life is horrible and I won’t be able to stand it
If I feel miserable, it is from an external cause

If something is dangerous, I must become preoccupied with it
It is easier to avoid things than deal with them proactively
I will always be strongly influenced by my past
Things should always turn out better than they do

I can become happy by doing nothing
Things must be in order for me to be comfortable
I am only a good person if I perform well and people approve of me

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irrational beliefs lead to

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healthy, emotions

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rational beliefs

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rational healthy emotions

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treatment- rational emotive

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help ppl confront their irrational illogical thinking, iden irrational beliefs, transfrom them,

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therapy with ellis

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person affects themselves more than their past, , repetition, practice and action of proper belief,

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behav therapy

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unconcerned with inferred vairables, observed behav

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classical cond

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behav is learned

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operant cond

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behav is reinforced by punishment

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treatment in behav

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is cooperative and edu, take prob at face value,

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sys desen

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hierarchy
teach how to relax
use through higher level of anxiety

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exposure therapy

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expose to fear inducing stiulus until anxiety reduces

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exposure plus repsonse prevention for OCD

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expose client to sit that creates obesses
prevent from engaging in compulsion
compuksion is no longer needed to reduce anxiety

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behav rehearsal

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accepts need of it
devel hierarchy
behav rehar
real life

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contingency mangagement

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rewarding pos behav token reward system