Ch2: Issues In Child And Adolescent Psychopathology Flashcards
When working with adolescents and older children, what is the therapeutic rule of thumb for ethics and confidentiality?
Discuss and negotiate rules of confidentiality and issues of privacy prior to the beginning therapeutic sessions
When working with older-children the clinician’s ability to establish a trusting relationship with the child may initially rehire the therapist not to disclose information to the parents
What are the 5 general ethical principles in psychology
Beneficence and nonmaleficence Fidelity and responsibility Integrity Justice Respect for rights and dignity of others
When does a counselor have to break confidentiality?
Child abuse, neglect, abandonment
What is the experimental method?
Hypothesis, researcher manipulates the experimental situation by randomly assigning subjects to one or two grouping conditions
Control group (not exposed to the condition)
Experimental group (is exposed to the condition)
Internal Validity
Evaluating internal validity, it would be informative to know how observations were conducted to rule out any potential observer/experimenter bias` effects.
-Researcher has made a good attempt to match his samples for age, SES, and gender, as well as limiting extraneous confounds
External Validity
Can the findings be generalized to the public, where the design produces high internal validity
Quasi-experimental design
Randomized placement is often hard to achieve, matched control group is also a way to circumvent this problem
Single-Subject Experiment
The variable manipulated would be a clinical intervention, and the subject would be observed prior to the intervention (for baseline) and again after the intervention was introduced.
Reversal Design ABAB
Where behavior is measures prior to the intervention (A) and immediately following the intervention (B) Intervention once removed for a specific time period and behavior is measured again at the end of this no intervention time (A) and then the intervention is reintroduced and the behavior is measured once again (B)
Correlational Research
Correlations can be between -1 to +1. Researchers interested in how characteristics co-vary set out to compare characteristics from one sample relate to characteristics in the same sample or another comparison sample
Correlational studies and Validity
Correlational studies have higher external validity, meaning that a wide variety of variables can be generalized across large samples of subjects and replicated to include greater sample variance, but because of lack of ability to draw inferences of causation between variables, internal validity is low
What are Epidemiological studies?
This is a type of correlational research that provide clinicians of the incidence and prevalence of disorders in the population
What is Naturalistic Observation?
Instead of controlling for environmental factors, the researchers operationalize a systematic set of behaviors that are defined as a method used to record observations.
What do incident rates refer to?
The number of new cases of a disorder with a given time period
What is prevalence rates?
Prevalence rates refer to the total number of cases of a disorder in the population within a given time frame
