ASSESSMENT - INTEGRATION AND CLINICAL-DECISION MAKING

Question 1

All assessments are conducted to address a _______.

Answer 1

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Question 2

What “tasks” are necessary whether a psychologist is providing an Assessment-Focused services an Intervention-Focused Assessment service. (4)

Answer 2

1. Examine all the assessment information
2. Consider both consistencies and contradictions in the information
3. Generate a hypothesis
4. Formulate conclusions or clinical recommendations

Question 3

What are some things that Integration requires

Answer 3

Providing a descriptive account of the clients current psychological functioning, and sometimes a diagnosis using the DSM-5

Question 4

During Integration, some clients might receive more than one diagnosis, what must a psychologist do in this case?

Answer 4

The psychologist has to indicate how these diagnoses are related to each other and to the persons overall psychosocial functioning

Question 5

The psychological Assessment of children and youth often involves what (in adults we don’t do it as much)

Answer 5

Collecting Data from Multiple Informants (parents, teachers, etc)

Question 6

De Los Reyes et al. found that there are two factors that effect the degree of agreement across raters (information sources like a parent vs teacher), what are they?

Answer 6

1. Situational Context (ex.home vs school)
2. Symptom Type (internalizing vs externalizing behaviour)

Question 7

In the context of psychological tests, the ___________ ___________ data allow the psychologist to evaluate the extent to which the other scale scores are likely to accurately reflect the clients personality and psychosocial functioning

Answer 7

Validity Score Data

Question 8

What is useful when a patient has complex or numerous clinical problems, as it allows the psychologist to make informed decisions about the timing, sequence, duration, and specific focus of interventions

Answer 8

A Detailed Case Formulation

Question 9

What is a Case Formulation?

Answer 9

A description of the patient (using assessment data) that provides info on his/her life situation, current problems, and a set of hypotheses linking psychosocial factors with the patients clinical condition

Question 10

What is a major challenge in case formulation?

Answer 10

DETECT PATTERNS in the data gathered during an assessment

Question 11

What are “Theoretical Orientations”

Answer 11

An organized set of assumptions

Question 12

How do Psychoanalysts and Behaviour therapists differ in what they emphasize in observations

Answer 12

psychoanalysts emphasized personality factors and behaviour therapists focus on situational influences.

Question 13

Jacqueline Persons has devoted lots of time into developing an approach to case formulation that psychologists can use.
What does her case formulation emphasize?

Answer 13

identifying the patients overt problems and long-standing beliefs (schemas) that when activated by life events, cause the overt problems

Question 14

What is Retrospective Recall

Answer 14

using data that relies on people to remember events that happened to them (counting on someone’s memory is not accurate)

Question 15

Other than relying on just memory for assessment, what are some other places we can get information about a patient?

Answer 15

medical, school or police records. any archival information

Question 16

What is the “Self-serving attributional bias”

Answer 16

taking personal credit for successes than for failures. and not taking credit for failures

Question 17

What are Heuristics?

Answer 17

mental shortcuts that people use to ease the burden of decision making

Question 18

Who has contributed to much of our understanding of how biases and heuristics influence routine clinical tasks

Answer 18

Howard Garb