Assessments & Instruments Flashcards
Developed for the DSM-5, this tool is used to collect culturally relevant info related to the client’s current and past help-seeking behaviors, coping skills, treatment expectations, and other relevant socially and culturally contextualized factors.
Cultural Formulation Interview (CFI)
Probability
The likelihood that something will happen.
Sensitivity
A test’s ability to designate an individual with disease as positive. A highly sensitive test means that there are few false negative results.
e.g. 90% sensitivity = 90% of people who have the target disease will test positive.
Specificity
A test’s ability to designate an individual who does not have a disease.
90% specificity = 90% of people who do not have the target disease will test negative.
Convergent Validity
The extent to which a test measures the hypothetical construct that it intends to measure.
Predictive Validity
Is when a measurement correlates with another variable that takes place in the future.
e.g., Individual who score high on tests measure the onset of an illness are correlated with those who actually develop an illness.
Reliability
Is obtained when a test’s stability is proven over time.
e.g., The scores from time one and time two are consistent and stable.
Test-Retest Reliability
Occurs when participants partake in the same test twice.
Abel Assessment for Sex Interest
Measures sexual behavior issues for men and women. Also measures tendency toward pedophilia.
Adult
Abel Assessment for Sex Interest 2
Measures sexual behaviors/interest in adolescents.
Ages 12-17
Acute Stress Checklist for Children
ASC-Kids
Self-report that measures ASD reactions in children and adolescents.
Ages 8-17
Acute Stress Disorder Scale
ASDS
Brief self-report that measures acute traumatic stress and predicts PTSD
Ages >18
Adjustment Disorder New Model
ADNM-8
17 life-stressors and 8 symptoms
Adjustment Disorder
Adult Suicidal Ideation Questionnaire
ASIQ
Determines an individual’s level of suicidal ideation.
Ages 18 and older.
The Affect Intensity Measure
AIM
4-Item self-report and measures dimensions of emotional experience, positive and negative affectivity, reactivity and affective intensity.
Intermittent Explosive Disorder
Ashland Interest Inventory
Available to those with employment barriers, including certain educational, mental, cognitive and physical limitations.
Beck Anxiety Inventory
BAI
Assesses/guages severity of anxiety.
Ages 17 and older
Beck Depression Inventory
BDI
Self-report that assesses depression severity.
Ages 13 and older
Beck Hoplessness Inventory
BHS
Self-report that assesses feelings about the future; also used to assess risk of suicide.
Ages 17-80
Beck Scale for Suicide
BSS
Risk of Suicide.
Ages 17 and older
Beck Youth Inventory
BYI-Y
Consists of BDI, BAI, Beck Anger Inventory, Beck Disruptive Inventory and Beck Self-Concept Inventory.
Ages 7-18
Behavior Assessment System for Children
BASC
Evaluates maladaptive and adaptive behavior, personality self-assessment in children, adolescents and young adults.
Ages 3-18
Bender Visual-Motor Gestalt Test
Assesses Visual motor fucntioning, developmental disorders and neurological impairments.
Ages >3
Bipolar Spectrum Diagnostic Scale
BSDS
Recommended for Bipolar I and less so for Bipolar II.
Cutoff score of 13 yielded 75% Sensitivity and 93% Specificity
Brief Cognitive Assessment
BCA
Approx. 15 minutes to administer.
Schizophrenia
Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale
BPRS
Assesses adults with psychotic and non-psychotic symptoms with a psychotic dx.
Adults
California Psychological Inventory
CPI
Assesses normalcy. Assesses interpersonal behavior and social interactions.
13 and older
Carroll Depression Scale
CDS
Depression
18 and older
The Child and Adolescent Needs and Strengths Assessment
CANS
Addresses the mental health needs of children, adolescents and families.
Ages 5-17
Child Autism Rating Scale
CARS
ID of autism disorder and severity.
2 and older
Child Behavior Checklist
CBCL
Social competence and behavior problems.
6-18
Child Suicide Risk Assessment
CSRA
Suicide in pre-adolescents
13 and under
Children’s Apperception Test
Personality in children
3-11
Children’s Depression Rating Scale
CDRS
Dx. and measure severeity of depression.
7-17
Children’s Depression Inventory
CDI
Severeity of depressive sx.
7-17
Clinician-Administered PTSD Scale
CAPS
‘Gold Standard’ PTSD Assessment
Long assessment requiring 50-60 minutes to administer.
(DSM-V) Clinitian-Rated Dimensions of Psychosis Symptom Severity
8-item measure that may be completed by the clinician at time of assessment.
Assesses Primary symptoms of psychosis: hallucinations, delusions, disorganized speech, abnormal psychomotor behavior and negative symptoms.
Columbia Mental Maturity Scale
CMMS
Assess reasoning ability in children.
3 years six months through 9 years eleven months.
Columbia Suicide Severity Rating Scale
C-SSRS
Severity and ideation of suicide
5 and older
Conners Comprehensive Behavior Rating Scale for Children
CBRS
Academic problems and behavior in children.
6-18
Conners Continuous Performance Test
CPT
Testing attention span
4-6
Conners Early Childhood
Conners EC
Behavior and developmental progress, as well as social and emotional concerns.
2-6
Conners Rating Scale Revised
CRS-R
Provides rating scales for Parents and Teachers
Revised for DSM-5. Assessing ADHD and severity.
6-18
Coopersmith Self Esteem Inventory
CSEI
View of self.
>8
Covi Anxiety Scale
CAS
Level and severity of anxiety
18-65
(DSM-V) Cross-Cutting Symptom Measures
Levels 1 & 2
To be done prior to initial assessment interview.
DSM-5 Assessment of 23 questions across 13 psychiatric domains.
Parent/Guardian ver. (ages 6-17) 25 questions across 12 domains.
Scores of 2 or greater should be conisdered further.
(DSM-V) Cultural Formulation Interview
CFI
Assesses the impact of culture on key aspects of an individual’s clinical presentation and care.
Culture refers to:
The values, orientations, knowledge, and practices that individuals derive from membership in diverse social groups.
Aspects of an individual’s background, developmental experiences, and current social contexts that may affect his or her perspective, such as geographical origin, migration, language, religion, sexual orientation, or race/ethnicity.
The influence of family, friends, and other community members on the person’s illness experience.
Follows a person-centered approach.
Dementia Rating Scale
DRS
Level of cognitive functioning
Adult
The Dissociative Disorders Interview Schedule
DDIS
Dx. trauma-related disorders:
- Dissociative disorders
- Borderline Personality Disorder
- Major Depressive Disorder
- Somatic Sx. Disorder
Adult
Dissociative Experiences Scale
DES
Frequency of dissocative experiences.
Not for children.
GOLD STANDARD
Eating Disorder Examination
EDE
22-items, measures core areas of behavioral and attitudinal features of eating disorders.
Four subscales:
1. dietary restraint
2. shape concern
3. weight concern
4. eating concern
GOLD STANDARD for Bulimia Nervosa
Eating Disorder Inventory
EDI
Measures sx. of eating disorders.
12 and older.
Eating Disorder Inventory - 2
Self-reporting of symptoms associated with Anorexia or Bulimia.
12 and older.
Family Accommodation Scale
Measures the most frequently occurring phenomenon that is linked to treatment response, increased OCD symptoms severity and lower levels of functioning.
Fear Questionanaire
FQ
Measures avoidance of situations due to fear.
Panic Disorder
Children-Adult
Halstead-Reitan Neuropsychological Battery
HRNB
Assess brain function and condition.
15 and older.
Hamilton Anxiety Scale
HAM-A
Level of anxiety in those dx. with anxiety.
Children-Adult
Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression
HRSD
Assess severity of depression prior to treatment, in treatment and after treatment.
Children-Adult
Dysthymia
House Tree Person
Pt. is asked to draw a house, tree, and people.
Personality traits
3 and older.
Level 1 Cross Cutting Symptoms Measure
Assesses Mental Health
6-17
Levinson Self-Report Psychopathy Scale
Predictor scale for predicting APD symptoms.
Antisocial Personality Disorder
Marital Satisfaction Inventory
MSI
Clinical concerns in couples and relationships.
- roles
- expression of feelings
- communication skills
- conflict
- aggression
- family history
16-92
Massachusetts General Hospital Hair Pulling Scale
MGHHPS
Assesses the urges of hair pulling.
11 and older.
Massachusetts General Hospital Skin Picking Scale
SPS
Frequency and severty of skin picking.
Mental Status Exam
MSE
Assesses an individuals mental/cognitive impairment.
18 and older.
Million Adolescent Personality Inventory
MAPI
Personality in troubled and average teens.
13-18
Mini Mental State Exam
MMSE
Measures an individuals cognitive impairment.
18 and older
Million Clinical Multiaxial Inventory-IV
MCMI
Assesses personality diosrders and psychological assessment and psychiatric treatment.
Adults.
Minnesota Impulsive Disorders Questionaire
MIDI
Assesses hair pulling disorder, kleptomania, pyromania, explosive disorder and compulsive buying.
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory
MMPI-2
Assesses psychopathology and personality.
> 18
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory Adolescents
MMPI-A
Assesses pyschopathology and personality.
14-18
Multidimensional Anxiety Questionnaire
MAQ
Self report assessment for anxiety.
18-89
Myers Briggs Type Indicator
MBTI
Based on Carl Jung’s theory of psychological type.
Measures a person’s differences, including how an individual takes in information, makes decisions, interacts with other individuals and is motivated.
14 and older
Obsessive-Compulsive Inventory - Revised
OCI-R
18 items with 6 subscales.
washing, checking, ordering, hoarding, obsessing and neutralizing.
Peabody Individual Assessment Test
PIAT
Scholastic achievement
5-22
Persistent Depression Screener
PDS
A screener for the DSM-5 Persistent Depressive Disorder.
Self-rating focused on symptom chronicity.
Q: When was the last period of 2 months, or longer, that you were not impaired by these symptoms.
For Criterion C of DSM-5
Personality Assessment Inventory
PAI
Psychopathology, diagnosis and treatment
Adult
Positive and Negative Symptom Scale for Schizophrenia
PANNS
Measures positve and negative symptoms of schizophrenia
Adult
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Posttraumatic Checklist
PCL
Most widely used self-report measure for PTSD.
Aligned with DSM-5 criteria.
GOLD STANDARD
Psychopathology Checklist Revised
PCL-R
Psychopathology and antisocial tendencies
Adult
Rorschach Test
A projective psychological personality assessment that identifies emotional problems throught hte use of different colored shaped inkblots.
5 and older
Stanford-Binet Intelligence Test
SB
Assesses intelligence and cognitive ability: reasoning (fluid), knowledge, quantitative reasoning, working memory and visual-spacial processing.
2 and older
Self Directed Search
SDS
Assesses an individuals aspirations, skills and interest in different careers.
12 and older.
Sexual Interaction Inventory
SII
Sexual satisfaction and dysfunction
Adult
Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire
16PF
Summarization of a person’s personality characteristics. Used by companies and couples. Assesses vocational and career choices.
16 and older
State-Traint Anxiety Inventory
STAI
Assesses anxiety and differentiates it from depression.
16-65
Slosson Intelligence Test Primary
SIT-P
Children’s intelligence; at risk for academic failure.
2-8
Strong Interest Inventory
SII
Career assessment that measures education and career aspirations and interests.
>16
Subjective Units of Distress
SUD
Measure of pre-intervention outcome.
Thematic Apperception Test
TAT
An individual shares descriptions of picture cards to assess their perceptions relating to interpersonal relationships, internal conflict, motives and interests.
5-79
Thought Fusion Instrument
TFI
Common instrument for OCD
Token Test for Children
TTFC
Language deficits in children
3-6
Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scale
VABS
Diagnoses and evaluates special needs of students: Autism, Aspergers and various other disorders, including interaction with their environment and social skills
Preschool to 18
Vineland Social Maturity Scale
VSMS
Social Competence
Birth-30
Wechsler Individual Achievement Test
WIAT
Summary of functional reading, writing, math and oral language.
Children
Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children
WISC & WISC 5
Child’s verbal and non-verbal intellectual abilities. Evaluates children with ADHD and behavioral disorders.
6-16 years and 11 months.
Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence
WPPSI
Children’s intelectual abilities; verbal and non-verbal.
4-6.5
Woodstock-Johnson Psychoeducational Battery
WJPB
Assesses cognitive abilities, scholastic apptitude, achievement and student interest.
3-80
WHO-5 Well-being Index
5 items reflecting the presence or absence of positive well-being.
Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Scale
Y-BOCS
MOST COMMON for OCD
- Assesses for the presence & severity of obsessions and compulsions in the last week.
- 10 items, 5 for severity of obsessions and 5 for severity of compulsions.
Zung Depression Scale
SDS and DSI
Evaluates depression in adults. Distinguishes depressive disorder, schizophrenia, personality disorders and anxiety disorders.
Adult
Dyadic Adjustment Scale
DAS
Measures a couple’s level of relationship distress adn includes four subscales.
Maudsley Marital Questionnaire
MMQ
Relational and Sexual Connectedness
Personal Assessment of Intimacy in Relationships
PAIR
Identifieds five forms of intimacy for a couple: emotional, recreational, sexual, social, and intellectual.
Measure of Attachment Qualities
MAQ
Measures secure, avoident and anxious-ambivelant attachment styles.
What anxiety rating scale includes a version which the parent can fill out on the child?
GAD-7
This assessment is used to assess for AoD use and has a screening coponent followed by an assessment.
Tobacco, Alcohol, Prescription Medication, and other Substances Tool
TAPS Tool
TAP-1: screens for AoD use.
TAP-2: if first is positive, followed with a brief substance-specific assessment.
CRAFFT Screening test
car, relax, alone, forget, friends, trouble
Used with adolescents aged 12-21 to screen for risk factors assocated with substance use.
CAGE Questionnaire
cut down, annoyed, guilty, and eye-opener
4-question screener for alcohol use.
MAST
Michigan Alcohol Screening Test
Screener to determine symptoms of alcohol dependency.
Research methodologies with the highest level of evidence are?
Randomized Control Trials or Clinical Trials
Which methodological feature considers ethnocultural variablies (e.g. race, sex, ethnicity, age) when determining external validity?
Inclusion-Exclusion Criteria
External validity is how well results are generalized in other settings.
Career Beliefs Inventory is based on what theory?
John Krumboltz
Social Learning Theory of Career Counseling
The Vocational Preference Inventory is used to identify one’s _______.
Holland Type
Holland Theory of Vocational personalities and work environments.
This assessment is based on Edgar Schein’s career anchors and determines a client’s motives, values, and skills.
COI
The Career Orientations Inventory
This assessment is based on Roe’s personlity theory of career choice.
The Vocational Interest Inventory
The World Health Orgainization Disability Assessment Schedule 2.0
WHODAS
Was developed to assess a patient’s ability to perform in six areas:
1. Understanding and Communicating
2. Getting around
3. Self-care
4. Getting along with people.
5. Life activities
6. Participation in society.
Self-administered and designed to be used in pts. with any med. disorder
The most common instruments for Generalized Anxiety Disorder are?
- Hamilton Anxiety Inventory
- Mood and Anxiety Symptom Questionaire (MASQ)
- Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD-Q-IV)
- Generalized Anxiety Disorder Scale (GAD-7)
- Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS)
PANAS is most widely used scale to measure affect.
The most common instruments for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder are?
- Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Scale (Y-BOCS)
- Thought Fusion Instrument (TFI)
- Obsessive-Compulsive Inventory-Revised (OCI-R)
- Family Accomodation Scale
Y-BOCS is the most frequently used.
What instruments are appropriate for Acute Stress Disorder?
- Structured Clinical Interview
- Impact of Event Scale-Revised
Benchmarking
A tool to improve behaviors based on a comparison to performance on an external standard.
What type of assessments should be suspect when evaluating someone with suspected Antisocial Personality Disorder?
Self-reports
APD clients tend to distort, lie and manipulte.
Common assessments for Schizophrenia Spectrum
- Matrics Consensus Cognitive Battery (7 cognitive domains known to affect schiz. pts.)
- Independent Living Skills Survey (ILSS)
- Maryland Assessment of Social Competence (MASC)
- Postive and Negative Syndrome Scale
- Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale
- Brief Cogntive Assessment Tool for Schizophrenia (BCATS)
- Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia (SADS)
Common Assessments for Dysthymia
Persistent Depressive Disorder
- Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression
- Montgomery-Asberg Depression Rating Scale
- Clinical Global Impression Scale
This assessment measures for positive and negative affect.
Think tripartite model of anxiety and depression.
PANAS
The Positive and Negative Affect Schedule
Negative Affect: upset/unpleasant, distress, fear, disgust.
Positive Affect: enthusiasm, interest, joy, adventureousness.
Impact of Events Scale (IES-R) and Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-Clinision Version (SCID-CV) are sufficient in evaluating?
Accute Stress Disorder
Arousal Symptoms (i.e. irritability, aggression, risky or destructive behavior, hypervigilance, increased startle response, concentration and sleep)
