Chapter 4: Assessment And Classification Of Psychological Disorders Flashcards
Psychological assessment
The process of gathering information about a person so that you can make a clinical decision about that person’s symptoms.
Mental status exam
Clinical interview organized into major categories designed to determine a person’s cognitive processes.
Flight of ideas
Spoken expression in which comments are not related to a question asked or jump abruptly from one topic to another unrelated topic.
Delusional thinking
An unrealistic pattern of thoughts forming a theme.
Obsessional thinking
A pattern of repeating thoughts beyond the control of the person.
Structured interview
An evaluation technique that is tightly systematized in terms of the questions asked, allowing for better consistency across interviewers and clients.
Structured clinical interview for DSM disorders (SCID)
An interview that directly probes for the existence of the criteria for disorders within the current classification manual, the DSM-5.
Cultural foundation interview
Set of questions developed to help mental health professionals obtain information concerning the person’s culture and it’s influence on behavior and experience.
Reliability
Consistency of the measurement by an assessment instrument.
Beck depression inventory (BDI)
A questionnaire useful for determining the level of depressive symptoms that a person is reporting.
Minnesota multiphasic personality inventory (MMPI)
Assessment measurement of personality traits, used in psychopathology to identify response patterns suggesting a psychological disorder based on empirical comparison to the general population.
Projective instruments
Assessment tests that use ambiguous stimuli to elicit the internal cognitive and emotional organization of a person’s primary thought process.
Rorschach inkblots
A projective year using inkblots: an individual’s interpretation of the ambiguous ink patterns is evaluated to identify patterns in underlying thoughts and feelings.
Thematic appreciation test (TAT)
Projective testing instrument composed of back and white drawings of various scenes and people; by evaluating individuals interpretive responses to the ambiguous drawings it is possible to gain insight into his or her thoughts, emotions, motivations including areas of conflict.
Wechsler adult intelligence scale (WAIS)
A common intelligence test with a number of sub scale designed to measure verbal and performance tasks.
Wisconsin card sorting test
Criteria of placing cards are changed throughout the test and is used to measure the person’s ability to adjust to changes in sorting criteria.
Continuous performance test
Measures intentional characteristics
Diagnostic and statistical Manuel of mental disorders (DSM)
Publican of criteria for diagnosis by the American psychiatric association.
International classification of disease (ICD)
Publication of the criteria for diagnosis by the world heath organization (WHO) used in Europe.
Categorical
In psychopathology, describes the approach to determining whether a person had or does not have a disorder based on the presence of absence of a certain set of symptoms.
Dimensional
In psychopathology, describes the assessment of severity of a disorder on a continuum, in terms of differing degrees.
Comorbid
Descriptive term used when an individual’s has more than one disorder at the same time.
Internalizing disorder
Disorders that experienced internally such as anxiety and depression
Externalized disorders
Disorders that are manifested in the external world by the person’s behavior, such as conduct disorder and anti-social personality disorder.
