Clinical Psych Chap 6

Front 1

The assessment process begins with a ________

Back 1

Referral

Front 2

The most basic and the most serviceable technique used by the clinical psychologist.

Back 2

Assessment Interview

Front 3

General Characteristics of Interviews (3)

Back 3

1. An Interaction

2. Interviewes

3. The Art of Interviewing

Front 4

Advantages of Computer Interviewing (3)

Back 4

1. Always asked all the questions assigned

2. For some patients at least, it is less uncomfortable and embarrassing.

3. Impersonal and dehumanizing

Front 5

Computers cannot currently replace the clinicians (5)

Back 5

1. Interviewer flexibility is not possible

2. Many non-verbal cues are not currently to computer based assessment.

3. Computer-based-technology cannot process unrestricted language

.4. Only clinicians can encode and process information relevant to the course of mental disorder or temporal sequencing of symptoms

5. Only clinicians are able to apply “clinical judgment”

Front 6

Interviewing Essentials and Techniques (2)

Back 6

1. Physical Arrangements

2. Note Taking and Recording

Front 7

the relationship between the clinician and patient.

Back 7

Rapport

Front 8

Involves comfortable atmosphere and mutual understanding of the purpose of the interview.

Back 8

Rapport

Front 9

Characteristics of a Good Rapport (4)

Back 9

1. Does not require that the clinician like every patient.

2. Does not require the clinician to befriend every patient

3. Does not require the clinician to master the agreed-upon set of behaviors

4. Does require that patients not be prejudged based on the problems they seek help for.

Front 10

Beginning a Session

Back 10

Communication

Front 11

Nothing is more disturbing to a beginning interview than_______

Back 11

Silence

Front 12

Understanding and acceptance is the product of ________

Back 12

Listening

Front 13

The clinical interview is not the time or the place for clinicians to work out their own problems.

Back 13

The Gratification of Self

Front 14

Varieties of Interviews (5)

Back 14

1. Intake Admission Interview

2. The case history Interview

3. The Mental Status Examination Interview.

4. Crisis Interview

5. Structured Diagnostic Interview

Front 15

2 Purpose:

1. to determine why the patient has come to the clinic or hospital

2. to judge whether the agency’s facilities, policies, and services will meet the needs and expectations of the patient

Back 15

Intake Admission Interview

Front 16

A personal and social history as possible is taken

Back 16

Case History Interview

Front 17

The clinician is interested both in concrete facts, dates, and events and in the patient’s feelings about them

Back 17

Case History Interview

Front 18

The purpose is to provide a broad background and context in which both the patient and the problem can be placed

Back 18

Case History Interview

Front 19

It covers both childhood and adulthood, and it includes educational, sexual, medical, parental-environmental, religious, and psychopathological matters

Back 19

Case History Interview

Front 20

Outside sources can be rich sources of information when the patient can’t provide their own personal-social history

Back 20

Case History Interview

Front 21

Is typically conducted to assess the presence of cognitive, emotional, or behavioural problems

Back 21

MSE INTerview

Front 22

The purpose is to meet problems as they occur and to provide an immediate resource

Back 22

Crisis Interview

Front 23

Other purpose is to deflect the potential for disaster and to encourage callers to enter into a relationship with the clinic or make a referral so that a longer-term solution can be worked out

Back 23

Crisis Interview

Front 24

Consists of a standard set of questions and follow-up probes that are asked in a specified sequence

Back 24

Structured Diagnostic Interview

Front 25

Ensures that all patients or subjects are asked the same questions

Back 25

Structured Diagnostic Interview

Front 26

RELIABILITY AND VALIDITY OF INTERVIEWS (4)

Back 26

1. Reliability of an interview

2. Agreement

3. Kappa Coefficient

4. Clear Cut Scoring Guidelines

5. The Validity if an Interview

Front 27

- is typically evaluated in terms of the level of agreement between at least 2 raters who evaluated the same patient or client.

Back 27

Interrater Reliability

Front 28

Refers to consensus on diagnoses assigned, on ratings of levels of personality trait, or on any other type of summary information derived from an interview

Back 28

Agreement

Front 29

The intra class correlation coefficient

Back 29

Kappa Coefficient

Front 30

Concerns how well the interview measures what it intends to measure

Back 30

Validity of the measure

Front 31

RELIABILITY (4)

Back 31

1. Information Variants

2. Criterion Variants

3. Clear Cut scoring Guidelines

4. Test Retest Reliability

Front 32

- refers to the variation in the questions that clinicians ask, the observations that are made during the interview, and the method of integrating the information that is obtained.

Back 32

Information Variants

Front 33

refers to the variation in scoring thresholds among clinicians

Back 33

Criterion Variants

Front 34

Make it more likely that two clinicians will score the same interviewee response in a similar way

Back 34

Clear Cut Scoring Guidelines

Front 35

The consistency of scores or diagnoses across time

Back 35

Test Retest Reliability

Front 36

VALIDITY (4)

Back 36

1. Content Validity

2. Criterion Related Validity

3. Discriminant Validity

4. Construct Validity

Front 37

refers to the measure’s comprehensiveness in assessing the variable of interest.

Back 37

Content Validity

Front 38

refers to the ability of a measure to predict (correlate with) scores on other relevant measures.

Back 38

Criterion Related Validity

Front 39

administered concurrently with the interview.

Back 39

Concurrent Validity

Front 40

Administered at some point in the future.

Back 40

Predictive Validity

Front 41

refers to the interview’s ability not to correlate with measures that are not theoretically related to the construct being measured

Back 41

Discriminant Validity

Front 42

used to refer to all of these aspects of validity

Back 42

Construct Validity

Front 43

Are all necessary in all types of interview (4)

Back 43

1. Rapport

2. Good Communication Skills

3. Appropriate Follow up Question

4. Good Observational Skills

Front 44

Two primary Distinguishing features of Interviews (2)

Back 44

1. Differ in purpose

2. Unstructured or Structured

Front 45

Communication (8)

Back 45

1. Beggining a Session

2. Language

3. The use of Questions

4. Silence

5. Listening

6. Gratification of Self

7. The Impact of Clinician

8. The Clinician's Values and Background