06_Clinical Assessment Flashcards
The _________ is used to identify brain damage and determine its severity and possible location, and produces an Impairment Index that ranges from _________.
H-R (Halstead-Reitan)
0 to 1.0
The Bender-Gestalt II is a measure of _________ integration is also used as a screening device for _________.
Administration involves two phases: the copy phase and the _________ phase.
Visual-Motor
Neuropsychological impairment
Recall
The Wisconsin Card Sorting Test, Stroop Test, and Tower of London are all sensitive to _________ lobe damage.
Frontal
The Stroop test evaluates an examinee’s ability to suppress a _________ response.
Prepotent
The Mini Mental State Exam is administered to older adults as a screening test for _________, and assesses six aspects of functioning: orientation, registration, attention and calculation, delayed recall, language, and _________.
Cognitive impairment
Visual construction
The Glasgow Coma Scale is used to assess consciousness following brain injury, and involves rating the patient in terms of three responses: _________, _________, and _________.
Visual response
Best motor response
Best verbal response
The _________ Cognitive Functioning Revised is used to assess recovery during the first few weeks to months following a head injury, and involves rating in the patient in terms of 10 levels.
Rancho
The Beck Depression Inventory includes 21 items that measure various aspects of depression.
A score between _________ suggests severe depression.
29 to 63
Of the signs of depression, _________ is considered to be one of the best predictors of suicide risk.
Hopelessness
Assessment for ADHD often begins with a _________ scale (e.g. BASC, CBCL) to distinguish ADHD from other disorders.
broad-band
[Behavior Assessment System of Children; Child Behavior Checklist]
Influences on the assessment of intellectual disability include the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), which requires that students with disabilities be provided with education in the _________ environment and that an _________ be developed for each disabled student enrolled in a public school.
Least restrictive
Individualized Education Plan (IEP)
In the case of _________, the court concluded that IQ tests must not be used to place African-American students in special education classes.
Larry P. v. Riles
The Vineland-II is used to evaluate the _________ of individuals who have Intellectual Disability, ADHD, brain injury, or dementia.
Personal and Social skills (adaptive behavior)
Malingering is suggested by certain scores on the _________ scales of the MMPI-2.
Validity
Symptom Validity Tests are measures designed to detect patterns of responding associated with malingering. They employ a _________ format and compare an individual’s responses to chance responding.
Forced choice
