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Abnormal Week 3 Flashcards

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observable behaviour or state

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symptome

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a group or pattern of symptoms that tend to occur together in a particular disease

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syndrome

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behavioural, somatic, or psychological syndromes associated with current distress or disability

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mental disorder

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approach to assessment of mental disorders depends on :

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  • practical factors (cost of assessment)

- theoretical orientation of the assessingpsychologist

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refers to consistency of measurement

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reliability

- better correlation better the reliability

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what is alternate-form reliability

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using two forms of a test

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what is internal consistency reliability

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assess if the items on test are related to one another

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does this measure fulfill its intended purpose? if so this emasure is ______

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valid

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unreliable measure will not have good ____ why

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validity bc it cannot fulfill its intended purpose if its not the saem every time

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what is content validity

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whether a measure adequately samples the domain of interest

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what is criterion validity

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whether a measure is associated in an expected way with some other measure (the criterion)

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construct validity

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a test or measure of some characterstuc or construct that is not simply defined - evaluated by looking at wide variety of data freom multiple sources

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describe clinical nterviews

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the paradigm in which the interviewer influencers the type of info sought, how its obtained and how it is interpreted

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reliability od unstructured clinical interviews

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relies on intuitiona nd general experience of interviewer

  • reliability for INTIAL clinical interviews is low
  • therapy is longitudinal in nature
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what are structured in interviews used for

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to obtained standardized indo, inter-rater reliability is good

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structured clinical interview diagnosis (SCID)

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provides DSM diagnosis

  • uses branchoing - clients answer guids next question asked
  • symptoms rated on 3 point scale of severity
  • training and lots of practice
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is evidence-based assessment used often?

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no

- practical reasons, clinical relevance, experience, economic pressures…. istead used evidence informed practiuces

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psychological tests complement _____

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interviews

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standardized procedures desgned to measure a person’s performance on a particular task : ______

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psychological tests

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3 types of psychological tests

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  1. personality inventories
  2. projective tests
  3. intelligence tests
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explain minnesota multiphasic personality inventory (MMPI)

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inexpensive means of detecting psychopathology

  • deisgned to detect multiple psychological problems
  • used to screen ppl for which clinical interviews not possible
  • 14-18 and adults
  • one elemtn of diagnosis
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what is the MMPI fake-bad scale

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minnesoda multiphasic personality inventory fake-bad used to identiy ppl who are faking but misclissified ppl with problems as faking

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a set of standard stimuli, ambigous enough to allow variation in responses to determine unconscious processes

—- exmaple

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projective personality testsrorchach inkblot tests

- thematic apperception test - black and white photo story telling

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paradigm projectivetests came from …. emant to why?

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psychoanalytic paradigm

bypass defence mechanism

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controversies about projective measures

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more vaild in some context than others - ink blot and schizophrenia

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verbal ability, problem solving skills, capacity to learn from experience, ability to adapt to the environment

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intelligence

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alfred binet created what to measure ability of people

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list of 30 ascending ordered of difficultyitems - ppl should tests at age - mentl vs actual age

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the mental quotient

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ratio of mental age and chronological age

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IQ means

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intelligence quotient (mental/ chronological)*100

30
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standardized means of assessing a person;s current mental ability

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intelligence test by stanford-binet

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how talked about emotional intelligence

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daniel goleman - capacity to be aware, regulatem express ones emotions while taking tinto accoun others feelings

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what was high emotional intelligence associated with

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reduced depression proneness, greater levels of subjective well being (but not of social interactions)

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in canadian univeristy styudents, emotional intelligence was used to predict ________

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levels of anxiety, depression and life satisfaction

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the heart of case formulation

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the WORKING HYPOTHESIS

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elements of case formulation

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individualized, revisable, collaborative, strengths and assests, treatment plan

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case formulation is used as base for ________

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interventions

37
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how to directly observe behaviour in therapy

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create artificial situations

see how they react under specific conditions

38
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biological assessment - brain imaging types - computerized axial tomography

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  • small amount of radiation
  • cross-sectional images
  • sess enlargeed ventricles, tumours, blood clots
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biological assessment - brain imaging types magnetic resonance imaging

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does not rely on radiation, better than CT, clearer image

- magnetic fields

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biological assessment - brain imaging types fMRI

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brain at work - mapping activation

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biological assessment - brain imaging types - positron emission tompography

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PET scane
- brian function - most expsensive and invasice
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neuropsychological assessment

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  • measure how behaviour correlates with brain functio
  • give treatment reccomendations
  • assess patients feelings about their syndrome
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a physician who specializes in medical diseases that affect nervous system

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neurologist

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a psychologist that studies the dysfunctio of the brain and how that aggects how that person feels, thinks and behaves

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neuropsychologiist

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psychophysiological assessment

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concerned with bodily changes that accompany psychological events or that are associated with a person’s psychological characteristics

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the study of frequency of disorders in population

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epidemiology

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co-occurenace of different disorders

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comorbidity

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dimensional vs categorical classification

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dimensional - scores on a scale

categorical - yes or no

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first DSM

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relied on psychodynamic concepts

short, not many disorders

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DSM III

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more than twice the size, many more disorders

  • focused on empirical data instead of psychodynamic theory
  • included explicit diagnostic criteria , focused on treatment
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DSM II

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relied on psychodynamic concepts

not much different

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DSM IV and IV-R

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more disorders, same structure

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DSM 5

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huge - elimination of multiaxial system - now v-code - factors that have stronf influence on treatment that are not disorders - that impact treatment - ex: child abuse
- reduces “not otherwise speficied” -
- underspecified - put w diagnosis no reason
otherspeciifed - w diagnosis and reason given

54
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what DSM had multi-axial classifications and what is it

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DSM III and each perosn rated on 5 seperate dimentsion scale to know person better

  1. principal conditions that need immediate medical attention
  2. personality disorers and mental retardation
  3. general medical conditions of client as realted to their disorder
  4. pwsychosocial envio problems
  5. current level of functioning 0-100
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the consistency of a measurement is called

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reliability

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