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37 Cards in this Set
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Diagnosis |
Cluster of symptoms |
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DSM-5 |
Diagnostic & Statistical Manual of mental Disorders |
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Categorial |
It's a yes or no question |
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Dimensional |
Level or degree of the emperment. it's a rating scale. |
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Clinical Assessment |
Collecting relevant information to understand a persons presenting problems & thus the best way to help them. |
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Idiogrphic |
Focusing on a individual |
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Three Types of Assessment Tools |
Clinical interviews, observational systems, and clinical tests |
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Conceptualize the Case |
Uses --Predisposing factors --Precipitating Factors --Maintaining factors |
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Nomothetic |
Knowoing things about a particular group. |
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Diathisis Stress model |
How someone develps psychopathology or admorality. |
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Diathesis |
A predisposing factor that can lead to an admorality. |
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Predisposing Factors |
History of the person. |
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Precipitating Factors |
What is happening to the person now---stress |
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Maintaining Factors |
What keeps the admorality going? |
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Clinical Interviews |
Face-to-face; collect detailed information, esp. personal history Structured, unstructured, or semi-structured Focus depends on Theoretical Orientation Shouldn't be the sole means for conceptualizing the problems, diagnosis, & treatment |
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Clinical Observations |
Systematic, Naturalistic, Analog Useful in assessing infreguent or overly frequent behaviors Provides a means of measuring private thoughts or perceptions Validity is often a problem |
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Clinical Tests |
To gather info about person's psychological functioning, parferably compared to other people (Normative Comparisons) There are over 500 different tests exist Psychologists do this |
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Systematic Observation |
Careful record of certain behaviors, feelings, or cognitions over time. |
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Naturalistic Observations |
In everyday environments, focus on parent-child, sibling-child, or teacher-child interactions |
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Analog Obervations |
Used in artificial settings instead, like a lab |
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Validity |
Clients may be poorly trained/may not record info accurately people change their behavior when they know they are people monitered |
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Normative Comparisons |
Comparing data to other peoples data that can be compared to the individual. |
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Projective Tests |
Clients interpret vague/ambiguous stimuli or follow open-ended instruction Mainly used by psychodynamic practitioners Helpful for providing "supplementary" information Rarely demonstrated much reliability or validity |
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Rorschach Inkblot |
Fun, not as useful |
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Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) |
The client tells a story about what they see about a picture |
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Sentence-Completion Test |
Researcher starts a question then the client finishes it |
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Draw-a-Person (DAP) Test |
Client draws a picture of a person. |
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Personality Inventories |
Measure broad personality characteristics Focus on behaviors, beliefs, & feelings (usually self-report) Easier, cheaper, & faster obecectively scored/ standardized Appear to have greater validity Fail to allow for cultural disserences in response |
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MMPI-2 |
Personality Inventories Long and hard but you get an actual score 567 self-statements that descirde phisical concerns; mood; morale; attitudes toward religion, sex, & social activities; & psych symtoms Assesses carless responding & lying |
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Response Inventories |
Usually based on self-reported responses Focus on one specific area of functioning ---Affective inventories --Social skills inventories --Cognitive inventories strong face validity can't tell if someone is lying
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Beck Depression Inventory |
Affective Inventory |
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Psychophysiological Tests |
Measure of physiological response as an indication of a psychological problems. Includes, heart rate, blood pressure, etc... Require expensive equipment |
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Neurological Tests |
Directly assess brain function by assessing brain structure and activity |
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Neuropsychological Tests |
Indirectly assess brain function by assessing cognitive, perceptual, & motor functioning |
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Intelligence Test |
Measure intellectual ability/cognitive functioning----broad abilities well standardized, very high reliability and validity role of non-intelligence factors
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Verbal IQ |
working memory |
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Performance IQ |
Processing speed, perceptual organization |
