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1
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Involves the collection of relevant information in an effort to reach a conclusion

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ASSESSMENT

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Used to determine how and why a person is behaving abnormally and how that person may be helped, gathers idiographic information, used to evaluate treatment progress

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CLINICAL ASSESSMENT

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Personal information collected from a client

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idiographic information

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Hundreds of clinical assessment tools fall into three categories

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Clinical interviews, Tests, Observations

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To be useful, assessment tools must be _________

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standardized and have clear reliability and validity

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Sets up common steps to be followed whenever it is administered for administration, scoring, and interpretation of a test

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STANDARDIZATION

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Refers to the consistency of an assessment measure

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RELIABILITY

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Two main types of reliability

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TEST -RETEST RELIABILITY; INTERRATER (INTERJUDGE) RELIABILITY

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Type of reliability in which you receive the same score on multiple attempts

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TEST -RETEST RELIABILITY

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Type of reliability in which different scorers deliver same scores

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INTERRATER (INTERJUDGE) RELIABILITY

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Refers to the accuracy of a tool’s results

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VALIDITY

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Type of validity in which test appears at face value to be valid

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face validity

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Type of validity in which test reliably make same predictions

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PREDICTIVE VALIDITY

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measure of how well a particular test correlates with a previously validated measure

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CONCURRENT VALIDITY

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Often the first contact between a client and a clinician/assessor; used to collect detailed information especially personal history, about a client

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Clinical Interviews

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Type of interview in which clinicians ask open-ended questions

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UNSTRUCTURED INTERVIEW

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Type of interview in which clinicians ask prepared questions, often from a published interview schedule

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STRUCTURED INTERVIEW

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Component of a structured interview to determine if someone is oriented to time and pace

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mental status exam

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Three limitations of clinical interviews

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May lack validity or accuracy, May contain interviewer bias or mistakes in judgment, May lack reliability

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More than 500 clinical tests fall into six categories

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Projective tests, Personality inventories, Response inventories, Psychophysiological tests, Neurological and neuropsychological tests, Intelligence tests

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Tests from psychodynamic theory that require that clients interpret vague or ambiguous stimuli or follow open-ended instruction, eg Rorschach Test, Thematic Apperception Test, Sentence completion test, Drawings

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PROJECTIVE TESTS

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Projective test in which narrative responses to ambiguous pictures reflect the individuals’ own circumstances, needs, and emotions

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THEMATIC APPERCEPTION TEST (TAT)

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A mental process by which a person makes sense of an idea by assimilating it to the body of ideas he already has

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apperception

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Projective test that is not accurate for diagnosis and a bear to score, involves interpreting inkblots and images

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Rorschach Test

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Projective test which provides springboard for discussion and a quick and easy way to pinpoint topics to explore

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SENTENCE-COMPLETION TEST

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Common sentence completion test

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Rotter’s Incomplete Sentences

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Projective test which provide means for clinician to assess functioning, especially with children

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DRAWINGS

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Type of drawing test in which you draw a person, person of opposite sex

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draw-a-person test

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Type of drawing test in which you draw a picture of your family members

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Kinetic Family Drawing test

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Type of drawing test in which you draw a house, then a tree, then a person

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House Tree Person Drawing

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Two strengths of projective tests

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provided method for personality assessment until 1950s, helpful for providing supplementary information

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Two limitations of projective tests

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not demonstrated reliability of validity, bias against minority ethnic groups

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Term for tests that indicate if a subject if faking answers

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Empirically keyed

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Tests that measure broad personality characteristics and psychological functioning, based on self-reported responses, focus on behaviors, beliefs, and feelings

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PERSONALITY INVENTORIES

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Most widely used personality test

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Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)

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Test consisting of 500 true/false/cannot say statements describing physical, mood, sexual, and social behaviors on 10 clinical scales, scores above 70 are deviant

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MMPI

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MMPI term for abnormal concerns with body

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hypochondriasis

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MMPI term for overly dramatic behavior

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hysteria

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MMPI term for people who don’t care about other’s feelings

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psychopathic deviance

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MMPI term for issues relating to traditional gender roles

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masculinity-femininity

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MMPI term for being abnormally suspicious

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paranoia

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MMPI term for level of anxiety

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psychasthenia

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MMPI term for having odd thinking patterns, unable to separate fantasy from reality

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schizophrenia

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MMPI term for emotional excitement, overactivity

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hypomania

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MMPI term for being easily embarrassed, ability to navigate social world

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social introversion

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Strengths of MMPI

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easy, objective, test-retest reliable, greater validity

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Limitations of MMPI

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measured traits not examined, no allowance for cultural differences

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Inventories based on self-reported responses, eg affective, social skills, cognitive inventories

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Response Inventories

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Affective test by Aaron Beck, father of cognitive therapy

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Beck depression inventory

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Strengths of Response Inventories

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strong face validity, increased usage over last 50 years

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Limitations of Response Inventories

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limited reliability, standardization, not tested for accuracy or consistency

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Test that measure physiological response as an indication of psychological problems, eg heart rate, bp, temp

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PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGICAL TESTS

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Most popular PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGICAL TEST

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polygraph

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Strengths of Psychophysiological tests

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continuous signals, use in real time

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Limitations of Psychophysiological tests

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expensive equipment, inaccurate and unreliable

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Type of test that assesses brain function by assessing brain structure and activity

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neurological tests

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Examples of neurological tests

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EEG, CAT, PET, MRI, fMRI

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Neurological test that gives most accurate image in real-time

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fMRI

59
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PET scan of depressed person shows what

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mostly blue with a little yellow

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Test that Indirectly assess brain function by assessing cognitive, perceptual, and motor functioning

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NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS

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Most widely used neuropsychological test

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BENDER GESTALT TEST

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Strengths of neuropsychological test

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need to be over 12, general screening, best in battery of tests

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Weaknesses of neuropsychological tests

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unable to detect subtle abnormalities

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Type of test designed to indirectly measure intellectual ability, verbal and nonverbal skills, score is IQ

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intelligence tests

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Strengths of intelligence tests

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most carefully produced, standardized, reliable and valid

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Weaknesses of intelligence tests

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performance influenced by non-intelligence factors, cultural and language bias

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Popular intelligence based on bell-shaped curve

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Weschsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS-IV)

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Systematic observations of behavior

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clinical observations

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Three techniques for clinical observation

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Naturalistic, Analog, Self-monitoring

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Clinical observation technique that involves observing a person in their natural environment

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naturalistic

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Clinical observation technique that involves observing a person in a laboratory setting

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analog

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Strengths of naturalistic and analog observations

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much can be learned

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Weaknesses of naturalistic and analog observations

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reliability and validity

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Clinical observation technique that involves a person observing and recording their own behavior

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self-monitoring

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Strengths of self-monitoring

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measuring thoughts and perceptions

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Weaknesses of self-monitoring

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validity

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Book of diagnoses and symptoms, requires clinician to provide categorical, dimensional, and additional information

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Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5)

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