Abnormal Psychology Chapter 4

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Idiographic understanding

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An understanding of the behavior of a particular individual

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Assessment

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The process of collecting and interpreting relevant information about a client or subject.

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Clinical assessment

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is used to determine how and why a person is behaving abnormally and how they can be helped.

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Personality Assessment

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Psychodynamic Clinicians use methods that assess a client's personality and probe for any unconscious conflicts he or she may be experiencing.

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Behavorial Assessment

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Behavioral and Cognitive clinicians are more likely to use assessment methods that reveal a specific dysfunctional behavior and cognition in patient.

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Functional Analysis

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An analysis of how the behaviors are learned and reinforced, once derived from behavioral assessment of an abnormal patient.

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Standardization

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The process in which a test is administered to a large group of persons whose performance then serves as a common standard or norm against which any individual's score can be measured. (create common steps to be followed)

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Reliability

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A measure of the consistency of test or research results

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Validity

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The accuracy of a test's or study's results, that is, the extent to which the test or study actually measures or shows what it claims.

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Clinical Interview

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A face-to-face encounter in which clinicians aske questions of clients, weigh their responses and reactions, and learn about them and their psychological problems.
Cons: These interviews sometimes lack validity and accuracy because patients answers are intentionally misleading. Interviewers may also be biased, and tend to rely too heavily on first impressions or unfavorable information.

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Test-retest reliability

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A test that yields the same results every time it is given to the same people has this kind of reliability.

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Interrater reliability

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Different judges independently agree on how to score and interpret the results of a test. (ex: American Idol has very low interjudge reliability)

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Predictive validity

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A tool's ability to predict future characteristics or behavior.

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Concurrent validity

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the degree to which the measures gathered from one tool agree with measures gathered from other assessment techniques.

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Structural Interviews

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Clinicians ask prepared questions. Sometimes they use a published interview schedule, a standard set of questions designed for assessment interviews.

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What are the advantages of using structured interviews?

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Pro: A structured format ensures that clinicians will cover the same kinds of important issues in all their interviews and enables them to compare responses of different individuals.

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Mental status exam

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A type of structured interview. A set of questions and observations that systematically evaluate a client's awareness, orientation with regard to time and place, attention span, memory, judgement and insight, thought content and processes, mood, and appearance.

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Tests

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A device for gathering information about a few aspects of a person's psychological functioning from which broader information about the person can be inferred.

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Projective Tests

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A test consisting of ambiguous material that people interpret a response to.