Assessments Flashcards
Bender Visual-Motor Gestalt
Visual-motor functioning, developmental disorders, and neurological impairments (3+)
Iowa Test of Basic Skills
Group-administered achievement test for grades K-12 which measures a student’s knowledge in subject areas that students have learned in school
CAGE Questionnaire
alcohol use; The CAGE Questionnaire is used to assess and screen alcohol use in individuals who might need to seek professional help. It only applies to alcohol, not other types of drug use. The four questions asked on the CAGE are self-administered and require only yes or no answers. If an individual answers yes to two or more of the four, he or she is at risk for hazardous alcohol use and is advised to seek medical evaluation and treatment.
Flanagan Tests
Aptitude Test, aimed to help employers select potential employees
Miller Analogies Test
Intelligence Test
The Miller Analogies Test is marketed as a measure of two main things: your cultural literacy and your reasoning ability. In other words, the MAT claims to measure how much you know about subjects like art, history, science, and math, as well as your ability to make connections between concepts from those subjects.
House-Tree-Person
Projective Personality Test
The house-tree-person test (HTP) is a projective test intended to measure different aspects of personality. Test takers are asked to draw a house, a tree, and a person. The interpretation of these drawings is used to create a picture of the person’s cognitive, emotional, and social functioning.
Rotter Incomplete Sentence Blank - RISB
The Rotter Incomplete Sentences Blank (RISB) is the most frequently used sentence completion test of personality and socioemotional functioning. A performance-based test, the RISB is used to screen for adjustment problems, to facilitate case conceptualization and diagnosis, and to monitor treatment
“The Rotter is short, valid, reliable, and would likely yield some important qualitative clues about some of the psychological themes” *was used for depression in sim
Conners Rating Scale - CRS
assess for ADHD and behavioral problems
Adlerian Lifestyle Assessment - LSA
Adlerian tool designed to identify an individual’s core beliefs (about self, others and the world), his/her rules about life, and the goals that have been set.
“If and when this client enters into an uncovering phase of her treatment, after she becomes more stable, and is motivated to take a look at the influence of early childhood experiences on her adult personality, then an LSA might be very useful. Until then, it is probably not going to be useful.”
ADE Needs Assessment
This is a 130-question, comprehensive, adult assessment tool. This instrument addresses life stress, attitude and emotional stability, criminal history, and alcohol and drug use.
Luria-Nebraska Neuropsychological Battery - LNNB
determine presence and severity of brain injury
Paulhus Deception Scales - PDS
The PDS is a self-report instrument that identifies individuals who, when responding to assessments and rating scales, distort their responses.
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 - MMPI-2
personality, behavior difficulties, and psychopathology
Vineland Social Maturity Scale - VSMS
This assesses the ability of students with developmental disabilities such as Autism Spectrum Disorder, ADHD, and Intellectual Disability to function socially. This behavior assessment is useful for determining the level of disability, identifying skills mastered and not mastered, developing objectives, monitoring the effect of interventions, assessing progress, assessing outcomes, and evaluating programs.
Beliefs About Voices Questionnaire - BAVQ-R
This is a self-report measure of clients’ beliefs, emotions, and behavior about auditory hallucinations.
Holland Codes
The Holland Codes are a system that classifies jobs into six distinct “work personality” types: realistic, investigative, artistic, social, enterprising, and conventional (altogether known as RIASEC). Each of these personality types reflects John Holland’s theory that one’s chosen vocation is an expression of personality.
Psychotic Symptom Rating Scales - PSYRATS
This is used to assess the severity of delusions and hallucinations. It has subscales for auditory hallucinations and delusions.
Slosson Intelligence Test-Primary - SIT-P
This is a test that assesses children’s intelligence.
Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test - PPVT
This is a basic intelligence test intended to give an estimation of the examinee’s verbal intelligence. One of the claims of this test is that a vocabulary assessment is an important gauge of general intelligence.
Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL)
used to detect behavioral and emotional problems in children and adolescents
6-18 years, has parent and teacher version
Vanderbilt Diagnostic Rating Scales
6-12 yrs, parent/teacher versions, psychological assessment tool for parents of children aged 6 to 12 designed to measure the severity of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) symptoms.
DISC-IV, DISC-P, DISC-Y, Columbia Diagnostic Interview Schedule for Children
DISC-P for parents 6-17 years old, DISC-Y youth administered 9-17 yrs
a fully structured diagnostic instrument that
assesses thirty-four common psychiatric diagnoses of children and adolescents.
a structured interview assessing an individual’s current and past symptoms of psychiatric disorders such as depression, schizophrenia, and substance dependence.
Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory - Fourth Edition (MCMI-IV)
The MCMI is a psychological assessment tool intended to provide information on personality traits and psychopathology, including specific psychiatric disorders outlined in the DSM-5. It is intended for adults (18 and over).
Detroit Test of Learning Aptitude DTLA
designed for assessing the cognitive abilities of students ages 6 to 17
Leary’s interpersonal checklist
personality objective
Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children
3-18 assesses cognitive development; intelligence test
Leiter International Performance Scale
3-75, intelligence scale, nonverbal, game like tasks
Raven’s Progressive Matrices
5+ nonverbal intelligence assessment, abstract reasoning, completes a pattern
Millon Adolescent Clinical Inventory (MACI)
developed specifically for teens and adolescents to assess mental health and behavior concerns often unique to their age group, and assist in making reliable diagnostic and treatment decisions
Goodenough-Harris drawing test
psychological projective personality or cognitive test used to evaluate children and adolescents for a variety of purposes
Firo-B-schultz
personality objective
interaction between people for the purpose of assembling highly productive teams
Career Decision-Making System-Revised
self-scored assessment that helps students and other career planners identify their occupational interests, values, and abilities
Lehman Quality of Life interview
quality of life for the severely mentally ill
McCarthy Scale of Children’s Abilities
intelligence test for children
Minnesota importance questionnaire
a measure of an individual’s vocational needs and values, which are important aspects of the work personality
Multidimensional Aptitude Battery
assessment of aptitude and intelligence
Neuropsychiatric Inventory
brief interview with a family member or friend who knows the patient well and can evaluate 12 behavioral areas commonly affected in patients with dementia
Otis Self-Administered Test Of Mental Ability
intelligence test, measure students’ general school ability
Personnel Test For Industry
intelligence test, measure two of the most useful aspects of mental ability: verbal and numerical competence
Porteus Maze Test
brief, nonverbal test of mental ability that yields information useful in assessing a person’s ability to plan and to change problem-solving approaches
Present State Examination Ninth Edition
A semi-structured interview, intended to provide an objective evaluation of symptoms associated with mental disorders
Psychological General Well Being Schedule
subjective feelings of psychological well-being and distress, one’s inner personal state
Purdue Peg Board
psychomotor test of manual dexterity and bimanual coordination
Simpson Angus Scale A.K.A. Extrapyramidal Side Effects Rating Scale
measures drug-induced parkinsonism symptoms
System Of Multicultural Pluralistic Assessment
assess the current level of functioning and the potential of children from Anglo, Chicano, and Black cultural backgrounds
Temperament And Values Inventory
career
Tennessee Self-Concept Scale
Personality - Self-Concept - For Children
Test Of Cognitive Skills
multiple-choice K-12 assessment that measures reasoning skills with different types of verbal, quantitative, and nonverbal questions
Thematic Apperception Test
personality The TAT is a widely used projective test for the assessment of children and adults. It is designed to reveal an individual’s perception of interpersonal relationships. Thirty-one picture cards serve as stimuli for stories and descriptions about relationships or social situations.
Wonderlic Personnel Test
assessment used to measure the cognitive ability and problem-solving aptitude of prospective employees for a range of occupations
BASC Behavior Assessment System for Children
2-21 years, parent/teacher
helps you understand the behaviors and emotions of children and adolescents; providing a complete picture of a child’s behavior
Mental Status Examination – (MSE)
- General Presentation
- State of Consciousness
- Speech
- Mood & Affect
- Orientation & Intellectual Ability
- Attention and Concentration
- Memory
- Thought Process
- Thought Content
- Impulse Control
- Insight
adolescents: The purpose of the MSE is to obtain a comprehensive cross-sectional
description of the patient’s mental state, which, when combined with the biographical and historical information of the psychiatric history, allows the clinician to make an accurate diagnosis and formulation. There are particular challenges in carrying out an MSE with young children and others with limited language such as people with intellectual impairment.
adults: The purpose of the MSE is to obtain a comprehensive cross-sectional description of the patient’s mental state, which, when combined with the biographical and historical information of the psychiatric history, allows the clinician to make an accurate diagnosis and formulation.
There are particular challenges in carrying out an MSE with individuals with limited language such as people with intellectual impairment.
The Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-5 (SCID-5)
Note – although primarily for adults, the SCID-5 has been successfully administered to adolescents.
The Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-5 (SCID-5) is a semi structured interview guide for making the major DSM-5 diagnoses.
