Assessment Methods And Techniques

Question 1

What are 4 methods of identifying client strengths, resources, and challenges

Answer 1

1) seeking exceptions
2) scaling the problem
3) scaling motivation
4) miracle question

Question 2

What are the 8 client functions that should be included in a psychosocial assessment?

Answer 2

1) appearance
2) orientation
3) speech pattern
4) affect/mood
5) impulsive/potential to harm
6) thought processing/reality testing
7) intellectual functioning/memory

Question 3

What is dissociation?

Answer 3

Disturbance or change in the usually integrative functions of memory, identity, perception, or consciousness

Question 4

What is endogenous depression

Answer 4

Depression caused by a biochemical imbalance rather than psychosocial stressor

Question 5

What is exogenous depression?

Answer 5

Depression caused by external events or psychological stressors

Question 6

What is folie a deux?

Answer 6

Shared delusion

Question 7

What is meant by postmorbid?

Answer 7

Subsequent to the onset of an illness

Question 8

What is meant by premorbid?

Answer 8

Prior to the onset of illness

Question 9

What is meant by psychotic?

Answer 9

Experiencing delusions or hallucinations

Question 10

What are 3 things a SW and client should do in the termination stage

Answer 10

1) evaluate the degree to which a clients goals have been attained
2) acknowledge and address issues related to the ending of the relationship
3) plan for subsequent steps a client may take relevant to the problem that do not involve a SW

Question 11

What are formative evaluations

Answer 11

Ongoing process that allow for feedback to be implemented during service delivery

Question 12

What is summation evaluation

Answer 12

Occur at the end of service and provide an overall description of their effectiveness

Question 13

What are 4 ethical standards that must be followed when evaluation practice

Answer 13

1) obtaining voluntary and written informed consent
2) informing clients of their right to withdraw from evaluation and research at any time without penalty
3) ensuring clients in evaluations have access to appropriate supportive services
4) avoiding conflicts of interest and dual relationships with those being evaluation

Question 14

What is the Beck Depression Inventory

Answer 14

21 item test for degree of depression in adolescents and adults

Question 15

What is the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory

Answer 15

An objective verbal inventory designed as a personality test for the assessment of psychopathy

Question 16

What is the Rorschach inkblot test

Answer 16

Used to asses perceptual reactions and other psychological functioning
Widely used projective test

Question 17

What is the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale

Answer 17

Tests cognitive abilities

Provides verbal, performance, and full scale scores

Question 18

What is the Thematic Apperception Test

Answer 18

Projective teat with pictures of ambiguous scenes, client must make up stories
Provides info on perceptions and imagination for the use in the understanding of a clients current needs, motives, emotions, and conflicts

Question 19

What is the Whechsler Intelligence Scale

Answer 19

Measures a child’s intellectual and cognitive ability

4 index scales and a full scale score

Question 20

What is ego strength

Answer 20

The ability of the ego to effectively deal with the demands of the id, the superego, and reality
Basis for resilience