Assessment Flashcards
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What does (WIAT-II) stand for?
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Wechsler Individual Achievement Test – 2nd Ed. (WIAT-II)
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What age for WIAT-II?
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4-85
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What is the WIAT-II used for?
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- To assess achievement of individuals
- To assist with diagnosis of specific learning disability, identification of student’s academic strengths and weaknesses, eligibility for educational services and/or intervention designs
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What are the composites and subtests of WIAT-II
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Reading: word reading, reading comprehension, pseudo word decoding
Maths: numerical operations, main reasoning
Written language: spelling, written expression
Oral Language: listening comprehension, oral expression
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WIAT-II scores:
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130-above Very Superior
120-129 Superior
110-119 High Average
90-109 Average
80-89 Low
70-79 Borderline
69-below Extremely Low
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For the WIAT-II, what is used for provide info for establishing specific learning disorders?
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- Discrepancy analyses between ability and achievement scores
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For the WIAT-II, what else should be considered besides the scores?
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Interpretations should be considered alongside qualitiative behavioural observation and skills analysis.
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What does ABAS-3 stand for?
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Adaptive Behaviour Assessment System -3rd Ed.
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What is the ABAS-3 used for?
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- Used to evaluate adaptive behaviour skills that are important for everyday functioning
- Useful for identification of strengths & weaknesses and intervention tracking
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What are the ages for the ABAS-3?
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- any age across lifespan:
o 0-5: parent/primary caregiver form
o 2-5: teacher/daycare provider form
o 5-21: parent form
o 5-21: teacher form
o 16-89: adult form (only completed by adult if have adequate reading ability otherwise another familiar adult to complete for them)
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What domains do the ABAS-3 look at?
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- Conceptual domain: Communication, Functional academics, Self-direction
- Social Domain: leisure, social
- Practical Domain: Community Use, Home/school living, Health and safety, Self-care, Motor (only in forms for 0-5), Work (optional for adults/working age)
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What do ABAS-3 scores mean?
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130-above Well above average
116-130 Above average
85-115 Average
70-84 Below Average
70-below Delayed
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What are psychological tests?
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standardised device for examining a person’s responses to specific stimuli, usually questions or problems.
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What are norms?
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the scores and corresponding percentile ranks of A large and representative sample from the population by which the test was designed.
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What is random selection and random assignment? What validity is each?
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Random selection – how you draw the sample of people for your study from the population as a whole. External validity (generalizability) of results i.e. it reflects how representative your sample is of the population it has been drawn.
Random assignment – how you assign the sample to different groups or treatments in your study. Internal validity (design of study), ensuring experimental groups are equivalent prior to the treatment.
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What is reliability and validity?
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Reliability – consistency of test scores. The ability of a test to yield same score for same individual through repeated testing.
Validity - ability of teat to measure and predict only what it is supposed to.
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What is behavioural observation used for?
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to measure the target behaviours of concern that have been established in the interview (target behaviours need to be clearly and objectively defined)
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What is anecdotal observation?
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observer records behaviours of interest, the antecedent conditions and consequences related to the clients’ natural environment
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What is the interview structure / key components?
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- Purpose of assessment
- Concerns of client
- Importance of concerns
- Present behaviour
- Antecedents of behaviours
- Consequences of behaviours
- Previous approaches
- Coping skills and resources
- Client’s perception of problem behaviour and distress
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What are the important factors of unstructured interviews?
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interviewer’s expression of warmth, sincerity, acceptance, and understanding.
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What are sources of bias?
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o Information variance – variation in the amount and type of info obtained due to different questions being asked.
o Halo effect- attribution of unrelated attributes from the impression gained.
o Confirmatory bias – tendency to ask qs to confirm a psychodynamic explanation
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What is reactivity in self-monitoring?
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Reactivity – act of self observation leading to behaviour change
o Level of reactivity increases with higher motivation, strong alignment of behaviour with goals, greater visibility of recording devices and higher freq of self recording.
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What are the 6 steps for self monitoring?
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- Intro to rationale for strategy
- Defining the response clearly
- Clearly defining how and when to record responses
- Charting responses so it can be seen visually
- Deciding where and how to display results (public may provide reinforcement from others but need for confidentiality and shame to be considered).
- Analyzing the data – discuss in therapeutic context to link goals and gains
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What does the MSE consider?
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general appearance, feeling, perception, thinking, orientation, insight and speech
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What should psychologists do when risk is presented?
Continually monitor client/s for signs of increased risk and take reasonable steps to mitigate risk and accurately record in details threats made (including wording).
Psychologists document their rationale for any action taken to safeguard others, including the breaking of confidentiality
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What should psychologists do when risk is presented?
Continually monitor client/s for signs of increased risk and take reasonable steps to mitigate risk and accurately record in details threats made (including wording).
Psychologists document their rationale for any action taken to safeguard others, including the breaking of confidentiality
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Assessment of harm involves both ___ and ___ risk of harm
Acute and chronic
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What are experienced by clients at risk of suicide?
- a spectrum of thoughts, feelings, and behaviours
- range from ambiguous to persistent experiences of hopelessness to self-harm and actual death by suicide.
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Assessing Suicide: what should be covered?
- previous history of suicide attempts
- the precipitant, the nature of ideation or attempt, outcome, and the reaction afterwards should be considered
- Intent
- Present thinking
- freq, intensity and duration of thoughts
- protective factors
- other risk factors
- specific plans
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- acute risk can be categorised into five factors ranging from:
o minimal (no suicidal ideation) to severe (frequent, intense and enduring ideation).
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what is Fluid Vulnerability Theory (chronic risk)?
o theory hypothesises that every individual has a baseline risk depending on their personal history and other factors (e.g., psychiatric diagnosis, history of abuse).
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What should be done for clients presenting with moderate risk categories?
close monitoring, combined with a crisis response plan, is appropriate.
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What does BDI-II stand for?
Beck Depression Inventory
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What is the BDI-II used for and what age?
Self-report measure of depression severity over a fortnight
13 years +
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BDI-II Scores:
- 0-13 minimal
- 14-19 mild
- 20-28 mod
- 29-63 sev
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What does GAF stand for?
Global assessment of functioing
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What is GAF used for?
Measures overall psychosocial functioning for 3 domains:
o Psychological symptom severity
o Social functioning
o Occupation impairment
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GAF Scores:
- Score of 1-100, or an interval range.
- Higher scores = healthier functioning
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What does the STAI stand for?
State-trait anxiety inventory
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What is the STAI used for and what age?
Provides measure of 2 related anx constructs:
o trait (A-Trait) – individual differences in disposition to respond anxiously across life
o state (A-State) – measures fluctuating anx based on immediate, threatening stimuli or temporary conditions
Adults with 6th grade reading ability
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STAI scoring:
higher scores = higher anx
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What does the ORS measure and what age?
- Measure well-being and therapy outcomes
- Brief measure of client functioning
13 years +
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What are the cut off scores for ORS?
higher scores = higher functioning
age 6-12 cut off = 32
age 13-18 cut off = 28
age 18+ cut off = 25
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What does the MMPI-2 stand for?
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory
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What is the MMPI-2 used for?
- Personality assessment
- Broadly assesses dimensions of psychopathology
- Mostly used in psychiatric settings
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What ages for MMPI-2?
18 +
MMPI-A for 14-18
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What abnormal behaviour and personality are measured in the MMPI-2?
Hypochondriasis
depression,
hysteria,
psychopathic deviate,
masculinity -femininity,
paranoia,
psychasthenia,
schizophrenia,
hypomania,
social introversion
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What score indicated clinical sig psychopathology on MMPI-2
T score greater than 65
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What does CBCL stand for and what age is it used for?
Child Behaviour Checklist
6-18 - but completed by parents
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What is CBCL used for?
assesses emotional and behavioural functioning in children (completed by parents)
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What is the ASEBA?
Achenbach System of Empirically Based Assessment
Group of assessment tools including parent, self and teacher reports of adaptive and maladaptive functioning
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What is the TRF?
- Teacher’s Report Form (TRF)
Completed by teacher
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What is the YSR?
Youth self report
Complete by adolescent 11-18
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What is different between DASS-21 and DASS-42?
DASS = 42-items. 14 items each domain
DASS-21 = 21-items. 7 items each domain.
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What is the DASS used for?
- Not a diagnostic measure.
- May give clinician and client important feedback and assist with monitoring process.
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What domains of depression measured in the DASS?
dysphoria, hopelessness, devaluation of life, self-deprecation, lack of involvement and anhedonia and inertia (or lack of)
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What domains of anxiety measured in the DASS?
heightened physiological state (alertness & arousal) and apprehension or dread. Four domains: autonomic arousal, muscular effects , situational anx, and subjective experience
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What domains of stress measured by the DASS?
Difficulty in being able to wind down, nervous arousal, easily upset/agitated, irritable/over reactive, impatient
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What is the K10 used for?
General Population.
Simple measure of psychological distress
And as a measure of outcomes following treatment for common mental health disorders.
Past 30 days
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What is the K10?
- a self-report measure based on the frequency of symptoms experienced
- used to identify need for treatment.
- 10 questions
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What do scores mean on the K10?
- Higher scores= higher distress
- Max score is 50 = severe distress,
- Minimum score is 10 = no distress.
- No universally agreed categories for scoring the K10
- Novo psych scoring of psych distress:
10-19 Psychologically well
20-24 Mild disorder
25-29 moderate
30+ severe
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What does the WPPSI-IV stand for?
Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence – 4th Ed.
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Who is the WPPSI-IV for?
- 2 years 6 months to 7 years 7 months.
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What is the WPPSI-IV used for?
- Assessing intelligence
- Used for assessing of cognitive delays, giftedness and informing educational and placement interventions and decisions.
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What are the primary index scores for the WPPSI-IV?
Verbal Comprehension Index (VCI),
Visual Spatial Index (VSI),
Fluid Reasoning Index (FRI),
working memory index (WMI),
Processing Speed Index (PSI)
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What scores used for the WPPSI-IV?
Index and full scale IQ
Described in qualitative terms from ext low (69<) and very superior (130>).
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What does SB5 stand for?
Stanford =-Binet Intelligence Scales
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What is the SB5 used for?
- Identifying low and high levels of intellectual functioning
- Measures performance on complex tasks of memory, judgement and comprehension.
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Who is the SB5 used for?
2 to 85 years (different subtests for different ages/ability)
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What are the 5 factors of cognitive ability measures by the SB5?
o Fluid reasoning
o Knowledge
o Quantitative reasoning
o Visual-spatial processing
o Working memory
Note- There are verbal and nonverbal counterparts
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What do scores mean on the SB5?
- 130 + score = giftedness. 69 and lower = mild impairment or intellectual delay.
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What does the KAIT stand for?
Kaufman Adolescent and Adult Intelligence Test
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What is the KAIT used for?
Measuring IQ - Integrates fluid and crystallized intelligence, frontal lobe planning ability and construct of formal operational thought.
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What ages for the KAIT?
- 11 to 85 + years old
- K-ABC alternate for 11-12 year olds.
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What are the core battery measures of the KAIT?
o 3 crystallized subtests (auditory comprehensions, definitions and double meanings) – measure vocab, factual knowledge, listening comprehension and ability to solve word problems.
o 3 fluid subtests ( logical steps, mystery codes and rebus learning) – measure deductive and inductive reasoning and paired associative learning.
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what is crystallised intelligence? what is fluid intelligence?
Fluid - ability to learn, assess, and navigate new situations.
Crystallized - accumulated knowledge you can recall as needed.
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What type of scores computed for KAIT?
- composite IQ and separate IQs for the 3 crystallized (GC) and fluid (Gf) scales.
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What does the WASI stand for?
Wechsler Abbreviated Scale of Intelligence
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Age for WASI?
- 6-90 years
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What is the WASI used for?
- Brief measure of general cognitive ability
- Clinical, educational and research settings to determine if a full test is warranted or as test-retest measure.
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What does the WASI consist of?
- Verbal comprehension index (VCI) - Vocabulary and similarities
- Perceptual reasoning index (PRI) – block design and matrix reasoning forming
- All subtests form FSIQ-4
- Vocabulary + matrix reasoning forming = FSIQ2
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What scores does the WASI produce?
VCI, PRI, FSIQ-4, FSIQ-2, percentiles and age equivalent.
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What does WJ-III COG stand for?
Woodcock-Johnson III Tests of Cognitive Abilities
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What does WJ-III COG measure?
- Relative profile index (RPI) and General Intellectual Ability (GIA)
- 2 – 90 years
Measures:
- word knowledge, meaningful memory, visual-spatial ability, ability to synthesise sounds, inductive and fluid reasoning, visual perceptual speed, short term auditory memory, auditory analysis and auditory closure, short term auditory memory span, delayed recall
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Who is the WMS-IV for?
- 16-90 years
- 65+ use the older adult battery
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What is WMS-IV for?
- Assessing memory abilities
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What are the 7 subtests of the WMS-IV
3 from WMS-III:
Logical memory
Verbal paired associated
Visual reproduction
4 New tests:
Brief cognitive status exam (BCSE)
Designs
Spatial addition
Symbol span
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What are the 5 norm-referenced Index scores for WMS-IV?
Auditory memory,
visual memory,
visual WM (only for 16-69),
immediate memory
delayed memory,
Brief cognitive status exam (BCSE).
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What needs to be kept in mind for memory contrast scoring for WMS-IV?
- Contrast score asks: Is this person’s delayed memory impaired given his/her initial encoding ability?
o Note for contrast scores: The basis of the comparison for contrast scores
is other people of similar performance levels on the initial/control skill, not age-based peers.
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What does WRAML2 stand for?
Wide Range Assessment of Memory and Learning – 2nd Ed.
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What does WRAML2 measure and what ages?
memory ability in range of contexts including assessments of memory deficits among brain injury, dementia and learning and developmental disabilities.
5-90
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What are WRAML2 indexes?
- 6 core subtests to make 3 core indexes:
o Verbal memory
o Visual memory
o Attention-concentrate
- Combine to make General memory index (GMI)
- Optional subtests to assess WM, delayed recall and recognition memory.
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Who is the PAI for??
- 18+
- 4th grade reading level
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What does the PAI measure?
- Multi-scale self-report test of personality assessment
- Provides relevant info for diagnosis, treatment planning and screening for psychopathology.
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What are the 4 categories of assessment of the PAI
Validity Scales (how valid the scores are)
Interpersonal Scales (interpersonal style and anticipating their behaviour in therapy)
Clinical Scales: (11 constructs important in diagnosing psych disorders)
Treatment Scales: (features that may complicate treatment)
(VICT)
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What are the validity scales of the PAI?
Inconsistency scale (ICN) assesses consistency of the client’s answers throughout the inventory.
Infrequency scale (INF) assesses careless or random responding
Negative Impression (NIM) assesses exaggerated negative experiences
Positive Impression (PIM) assesses presentation of favourable impression.
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What are the 11 clinical scales of the PAI?
Somatic Complaints (SOM) – conversion, somatisation & health concerns
Anxiety (ANX)
Cognitive, affective and physiological
Anxiety-Related disorders (ARD) – obsessive-compulsive, phobias, traumatic stress
Depression (DEP) – cognitive, affective & physiological
Mania (MAN)- activity level, grandiosity & irritability
Paranoia (PAR) – resentment, hypervigilance, persecution
Schizophrenia (SCZ) – psychotic experience, social detachment, thought disorder.
Borderline features (BOD) – affective irritability, identity problem, negative relationships & self-harm
Anti-social features (ANT) – antisocial behaviours, egocentricity, stimulus seeking
Alcohol Problems (ALC)
Drug Problems (DRG)
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What are the treatment scales of PAI?
Suicidal Ideation (SUI)
Aggression (AGG) -
Non-support (NON) - lack of perceived social support
Treatment Rejection (RXR) ¬– lack of motivation for change
Attitude, verbal and physical aggression
Stress (STR) – recent stressors
(SANTAS)
Note – a suicidal potential index, a violence potential index and a treatment process index can be obtained here also.
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What are the interpersonal scales of the PAI?
Dominance (DOM) – controlling & submissive in relationships
Warmth (WRM) – interest in supportive and empathetic relationships
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What items of the PAI may be used to interpret scale responses with regard to issues such as delusions hallucinations or potential for self-harm?
critical items
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Who is the PHQ-9 for
adults
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what is the PHQ9 used for?
- Diagnosing and monitoring of depression in primary care settings
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What can be combined with PHQ-9 to measure anx?
- If co-occurring anxiety can use PHQ-SADS together
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What is the PHQ-9 usually given as part of?
PRIME MD PHQ
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What are the score categories for PHQ-9?
- scores 0- 27
o 0-4 minimal depression
o 5-9 indicate mild dep
o 10-14 mod dep/ mild dep
o 15-19 mod severe major dep
o 20+ severe major dep.
Major Dep diagnosed if at least 5 of 9 depressive symptoms present at least more than half the days (i.e. score of 2/3 on scale) and one item must be item 1 or 2.
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Who is SDQ used for?
- Children and adolescents (different versions for parents & teachers of 4-17, modified versions for 2-4, and self-report for 11-17)
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What is SDQ used for?
- Widely used brief screening questionnaire assessing emotional and behavioural problems.
- Designed to identify young people who should be referred for further assessment/intervention and to evaluate treatment outcomes.
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What does SDQ consist of?
1st component: Basic Items
o Scores contribute to 5 scales (CHEPP): Conduct problems, hyperactivity, emotional problems, peer problems and prosocial behaviour.
2nd component: Impact supplement
o asks whether the respondent thinks the young person has a problem. If so, questions are asked about distress, chronicity, distress, social impairment and burden to others.
o Used to determine psychiatric caseness and service use.
3rd component: follow up
o Includes 25 basic items, the impact question and 2 follow up questions for after intervention:
Has the intervention reduced problems and has the intervention help in other ways (e.g. making problem more bearable)
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What score is produced by SDQ?
- Total Difficulties score calculated by summing the 4 deficit focused subscales.
- In low risk or general population:
o Interpret scores through subscales of internalising problem scale (emotional and peer issues), externalising problem scale (conduct and hyperactivity) and the pro-social scale.
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What are the advantages of the SDQ?
brevity, free & accessible, mulitiple versions, inclusion of strengths, provided in over 40 languages.
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What age for 16PF?
16
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What is 16PF used for?
- Standardised self report to assess personality factors
- Usually used to assist with vocational testing/fit
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What are the 5 global personality factors for the 16PF
Extraversion
Anxiety
Tough-Mindedness
Independence
Self-Control
(EATIS)
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What does NEO PI-R stand for?
Revised Neo Personality Inventory
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What are the ages for NEO PI-R?
- 17+
- Use NEO-PI-3 for 12-17
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What is NEO PI-R used for?
personality assessment
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What are the 5 factor model of personality assessing?
OCEAN
o Openness
o Conscientiousness
o Extraversion
o Agreeableness
o Neuroticism
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what does the SDS stand for?
Self-Directed Search 2nd Aust Ed. Form R (SDS)
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What and who is the SDS used for?
15+
Self-assessment career inventory to help identify their career interests and match to suitable fields.
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SDSL what are the occupation categories (John Holland)
(RIASEC)
o Realistic
o Investigative
o Artistic
o Social
o Enterprising
o Conventional
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What are the 5 sections of SDS?
o Self-estimates of abilities and skills
o Occupational daydreams
o Occupations
o Competencies
o Activities
(SOOCA)
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What is needed to know about the scoring of SDS?
- total scores calculated on RIASEC categories.
- Biggest scores used to generate code e.g. SEC. First letter = personality type most resembled.
- This code matched to jobs in the SDS occupations finer
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What and who is the SII used for?
16+
- Career decision making
- Helps individuals gain an understanding of their interests across a range of categories and match them with compatible occupational, educational and leisure pursuits.
- Also used for employee engagement, leadership, executive coaching and employment reintegration
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What are the scales of SII?
o General Occupational Themes (GOTS)
o 30 Basic Interest Scales (BIS), -
o 260 Occupational Scales (OSS), -
o 5 Personal Style Scales (PSS) -
o 3 Administrative Indices used to identify test errors or unusual profiles
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What is percentile rank?
How the person performed relative to same age peers. Example “X performed at or better than 82% of same aged peers”
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What is confident interval?
Range of where the true score lies taking into account measurement error, will be different between using a 95% or 90% confidence interval.
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What is base rate?
The level of occurrence of that difference in the overall normed sample, or for matched ability level
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Who is the WAIS for?
- 16 years to 90 years and 11 months
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What does WAIS measure?
- a person's level of intelligence including:
o investigations of cognitive delay,
o learning difficulties,
o giftedness,
o examination of cognitive strengths and weaknesses
o or changes in cognitive functioning.
- Can provide data for research purposes.
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What are the 10 core subtests used to generate in the WAIS?
A full scale intelligence quote (FSIQ)
Verbal comprehension: (VCI)
Similarities
Vocabulary
Information
Perceptual reasoning (PRI)
Block design
Matrix reasoning
Visual puzzles
Working memory (WMI)
Digit span
Arithmetic
Processing speed (PSI)
Symbol search
Coding
A general ability index score
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What are the 5 supplemental subtests for the WAIS?
o Comprehension (VCI)
o Figure weights (PRI)
o Picture Completion (PRI)
o Letter-number sequencing (WMI)
o Cancellation (PSI)
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What are the score categories for WAIS?
130+ (≥ 2 SD above mean) = Very superior
120-129 = Superior
110-119 = High average
90-109 = Average
80-89 = Low average
70-79 = Borderline
≤ 69 = Extremely low
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What creates FSIQ in WAIS?
Verbal comprehension index (VCI)
Perceptual reasoning index (PRI)
Working Memory index (WMI)
Processing Speed index (PSI)
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Age for WISC?
6 to 16 and 11 years
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What does WISC measure?
Identify intellectual disabilities,
- Assessment of specific learning disorder (in conjunction with the Wechsler Individual Achievement Test, WIAT-III).
- cognitive processing strengths and weaknesses,
- giftedness
- impact of brain injuries
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What is critical for the WISC?
building rapport
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How is the WISC scored?
score (scaled scores subtest)
130+ (16-19) = very superior/ext high
120-129 (14-15) = superior/very high
110-119 (13) = high average
90-109 (8-12) = average
80-89 (7) = low average
70-79 (5-6) = borderline/very low
less than 69 (1-4) = ext low
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If a child scores over 130 on the WISC what does that mean?
very superior/ext high score
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If a child scores 125 on the WISC what does that mean?
superior/v high
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If a child scores 115 on the WISC what does that mean?
high average
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If a child scores 99 on the WISC what does that mean?
average
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If a child scores 83 on the WISC what does that mean?
low average
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If a child scores 74 on the WISC what does that mean?
very low/borderline
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If a child scores less than 69 on the WISC what does that mean?
ext low
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What is the GAI score used for in WISC?
(i) Specific learning disability classification and eligibility decisions (those with neurodevelopmental disorders tend to have difficulties with cognitive proficiency, demonstrating a GAI > CPI profile)
(ii) Gifted and talented placement decisions
(iii) Identification of intellectual disability
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What is the nonverbal index (NVI) used for in WISC?
(i) English learners
(ii) Those who are deaf or hard of hearing
(iii) Those with speech/language impairment, expressive language disorder, or other disorder that
may compromise expressive language
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WISC: What does Similarities (SI) measure?
What kind of test is it?
VCI
GC (crystallised intelligence)
GF (fluid reasoning)
primary subtest
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WISC: what does vocab (VC) measure?
What kind of test is it?
VCI
GC (crystallised intelligence)
primary subtest
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WISC: what does info (IN) measure?
What kind of test is it?
GC (crystallised intelligence)
VCI
secondary subtest
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WISC: what does comprehension (CO) measure?What kind of test is it?
VCI
GC (crystallised intelligence)
secondary subtest
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WISC: what does block design (BD) measure?
What kind of test is it?
VSI
GV (visual processing)
primary subtest
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WISC: what does visual puzzles (VP) measure?
What kind of test is it?
VSI
GV (visual processing)
primary subtest
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WISC: What does matrix reasoning (MR) measure?
What kind of test is it?
FRI
GF (fluid reasoning)
primary subtest
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WISC: What does figure weights (FW) measure?
What kind of test is it?
FRI
GF (fluid reasoning)
primary subtest
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WISC: What does picture concepts (PC) measure?
What kind of test is it?
FRI
GF (fluid reasoning)
secondary subtest
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WISC: what does arithmetic (AR) measure?
What kind of test is it?
FRI
Gsm (short term memory)
Gq (quantitative knowledge)
secondary subtest
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WISC: what does digit span (DS) measure?
What kind of test is it?
WMI
GSM (short term memory)
primary subtest
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WISC: what does picture span (PS) measure?
What kind of test is it?
WMI
GSM (short term memory)
primary subtest
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WISC: What does letter-number sequencing (LNS) measure?
What kind of test is it?
WMI
GSM (short term memory)
secondary subtest
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WISC: What does coding (CD) measure?
What kind of test is it?
PSI
Gs (processing speed)
primary subtest
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WISC: What does symbol search (SS) measure?
What kind of test is it?
PSI
Gs (processing speed)
primary subtest
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WISC: What does cancellation (CA) measure? What kind of test is it?
PSI
Gs (processing speed)
secondary subtest
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WISC: What does naming speed literacy (NSL) measure? What type of test is it?
Gim- Long term storage and retrieval
Gs - processing speed
Complementary
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WISC: What does naming speed quantity (NSQ) measure? What type of test is it?
Gir- Long term storage and retrieval
Gs - processing speed
Complementary
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WISC: What does immediate symbol translation (IST) measure? What type of test is it?
Gir- Long term storage and retrieval
Complementary
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WISC: What does delayed symbol translation (DST) measure? What type of test is it?
Gir- Long term storage and retrieval
Complementary
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WISC: What does recognition symbol translation (RST) measure? What type of test is it?
Gir- Long term storage and retrieval
Complementary
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WISC: what needs to be considered for special needs?
- caregivers to provide info on special needs
- flexibility and preparedness for needs
- attention to signs of inattention, tiredness, and fatigue to ensure a fair assessment.
- modifications for testing procedures
- use of nonverbal index for those deaf or hard of hearing
167
Verbal comprehension: (VCI) tests are:
Similarities
Vocabulary
Information
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What tests for perceptual reasoning (PRI)?
Block design
Matrix reasoning
Visual puzzles
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What tests for working memory (WMI)?
Digit span
Arithmetic
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What tests for Processing speed (PSI)?
Symbol search
Coding
