Assessments Flashcards
Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test
- alcohol only
- self administered
Hayley Scales of Infant Development
- screen development in very young children
- 1 mo. to 42 months (3.5yrs)
- assesses mental, motor, and behavior
Beck Anxiety Inventory
- gauges acuteness of anxiety
- differentiates between anxiety and depression
- quickly administered
- 17yrs and older
Beck Depression Inventory
- assess depression
- 13yrs or older
- used in conjunction with Beck Hopelessness Scale (BHS) to gauge likelihood of suicide
Beck Hopelessness Scale
- determine likelihood of suicide
- asses for feelings about future, loss of motivation, and expectations
Bender Visual-Motor Gestalt Test
- evaluate visual-motor ability and perceptual-motor along with cognitive development
- provides info regarding developmental and neuropsychological functioning
- recreate geometric shapes shown on a paper
- 3yrs and older
Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale
- evaluate psychotic and non-psychotic symptoms in people with psychotic disorders
Brigance Comprehensive Inventory of Basic Skills
- assess academic skills
- math, reasoning, language, and information processing
Brigance Life Skills Inventory
- asses skills and performance within context of everyday situations
- speaking and listening, money, functional writing, food, words, clothing, transportation, etc.
Brigance Inventory of Essential Skills
- for people with special needs
- asses skills needed to be successful students or to function as adults
— academic skills
— life skills (food, clothing, travel)
— applied skills (responsibility, health)
CAGE Questionaire
- alcohol only
- four ‘yes’ or ‘no’ questions
—Cutting down
—Annoyance by criticism
—Guilty feelings
—Eye openers
California Psychological Inventory
- 13yrs and older
- interpersonal behaviors
— poise, confidence
— socialization, values
— potential for accomplishment
— intellectual and interest modes
Carroll Depression Scale
- assess degree of depression in adults
- differentiate between
—MDD,
—Depression with Melancholic Features,
—Depression with Atypical Features, and
—Persistent Depressive Disorder
Carrot Elicited Language Inventory
- assess speech and language development
- focus on phenoms and syntax
Child Behavior Checklist
- assess behavior problems and social competence as reported by parents
- two versions cover children between 1.5 and 18 years
- there are also scales for children’s self-report and for teachers
Child Language Intervention Program
- assessment and intervention for children with speech and language problems
- 1.5 to 6 years of age
Children’s Apperception Test
- 3 to 10 years
- examination of social-emotional components of personality
- projective test: shown pictures of animals in social activities
Columbia Mental Maturity Scale
- screen overall reasoning capacity of children
- 3.5 to 6 years
- select item that is out of place in a group of pictures
Covi Anxiety Scale
- severity of anxiety symptoms
- rates verbal report, behavior, and somatic symptoms
- often paired with the Hamilton Anxiety Scale which is more comprehensive
Denver II
- screen development from birth to 6 years
- basic functions assessed
— personal social (smiling)
— fine motor adaptive (drawing, grasping)
— language (putting words together)
— gross motor (walking)
Detroit Tests of Learning Aptitude - Primary, 3rd Ed.
- 3 years to 9 years and 11 months
- assess capabilities and deficiencies in language, attention, and motor
Detroit Tests of Learning Aptitude, 4th Ed.
- 6 to 17 years
- assess cognitive functioning
Drug Abuse Screening Test
- assess and screen drug use
- when scored as “substantial” or “severe” person deemed at risk and advised to seek medical attention
Eating Disorder Inventory - 3
- assist in diagnosing eating disorders, but should NOT be the sole diagnostic tool
- self report
Family Adaptability and Cohesion Evaluation Scales
- assess cohesion and flexibility within families and couples
Goldman-Fristoe-Woodcock Test of Auditory Discrimination
- 3 years, 8 months through adulthood
- assess capacity to differentiate between speech sounds
- noisy and quiet background subsets
- point to picture so no need for writing
Halstead-Reitan Neuropsychological Test Battery
- evaluate neurological impairments
- used for ages 15 and over
- two other tests that are for ages 5-8 and 9-14
Hamilton Anxiety Scale
- assess anxiety symptoms in people who were ALREADY diagnosed with an anxiety disorder
- not used to detect or diagnose anxiety
Hamilton Depression Scale
- assess symptoms of depression
- can be used with people with another primary diagnosis
House-Tree-Person Interrogation Form
- scoring form for projective assessment
- assess intelligence and personality in children and adults
IPAT Depression Scale
- measures cognitive,emotional, and other symptomatic issues associated with depression
- referred to as “Personal Assessment Inventory” on booklet given to patients to not induce stress
Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children
- evaluate cognitive development of children
Leiter International Performance Scale
- assess intelligence and cognitive capabilities
- 2 years to 20 years, 11 months
- match words on card to illustrations
- non-verbal, so reduces language barriers
Lucia-Nebraska Neuropsychological Battery
- screen and measure neurological damage
- based on theory regarding higher cortical functioning
Michigan Alcohol Screening Test
- screens for alcohol only, not other drugs
- self-administered test; “yes”/“no” answers
Millon Adolescent Personality Inventory
- assess personality and behavioral concerns
- 13-18 years
Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory-III
- evaluate clinical disorders and personality disorders as they correlate to the DSCM
- 18 years and older
- true/false questions
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-Adolescents
- evaluate personality and emotional disorders
- predominantly used for drug and alcohol treatment
- 14-18 years of age
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory
- assess patterns of personality, emotional disordered, and behavioral disorders
- aid in diagnosis and identifying suitable treatment options
Myers Briggs Type Indicator
- used to assess personality primarily in high school and college populations
NEO Personality Inventory-Revised
- assess the Big Five personality domains and the six trait factors that define each domain
- Big Five: extroversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, neuroticism, and openness to experience
