Chapter 4 (diagnosis, assessment, and study of mental disorders)

Question 1

Dimensional approach

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-refers to defining abnormal behaivor on a continuum or spectrum

Question 2

Abnormal behaivor consists of

Answer 2

1. Emotional states
2. Cognitive styles
3. Physical behaivor

Question 3

Categorical approach

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One either has or doesn’t have a mental disorder

Question 4

Diagnosis

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Defined by rules how many and what features of a mental disorder must be present

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General features of mental disorder according to DSM

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1. A group of emotional, cognitive, or behaivoral symptoms called a syndrom that occur within a person
2. these symptoms are usually associated with emotional distress or disability(impairment) in life activities
3. the syndrom is not simply expected or culturally approved response to a specific event, such as grief and sadness followed by death of a loved one
4. The symptoms are considered to reflect dysfunction in psychological, biological, or developmental processes

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Classification

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Refers to arranging mental disorders into broad catagories or classes based on similar features

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Clinical assessment

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Involves evaluating a person’s strengths and weaknesses and understanding the problem at hand to develop a treatment

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Reliability

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The consistency of scores or responses

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Test-retest reliability

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The extent to which a person provides similar answers to the same questions across time

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Interrater reliability

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Agreement between 2+ rafters or judges about the level of a trait or presence/absence or a feature or diagnosis

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Internal consistency reliability

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Relationship among test items that measure the same variable

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Validity

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The extent to which an assessment tequnique measures what it is suppose to measure

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Content validity

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How well test or interview items adequately measure various aspects of a variable, construct or diagnosis

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Predictive validity

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How well test scores or diagnoses predict and correlate with the behaivor or test scores that are observed or obtained at some future point

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Concurrent validity

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How well test scores or diagnoses correlate with a related but independent set of test scores or behaivor

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Construct validity

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How well test scores or diagnoses correlate with other measures or behaivors in a logical and theoretically consistent way

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Standardization

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Administering or conducting assent measures int he same way for everyone

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Unstructured interviews

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Allow interviewer to ask questions that come to mind in any order

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Structured interview

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Require and interviewer to standardize questions in a specified sequence
Ex. SCID

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Intelligence tests

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Asses cognitive functioning and provide estimates for an individual’s intellectual ability
Ex. Weschler intelligent scale

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Personality assessment

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Refers to instruments that measure different traits or aspects of our character

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Objective personality measures

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Involve administering a standard set of questions or statements to which the person responds using set options
Ex. Beck depression inventory

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MMPI-2 validity scales

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Used to detect people who are trying to look a certain way or who are defensive or careless when taking a test

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MMPI-2 clinical scales

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Can suggest certain diagnoses, and indicate various personality styles and problematic behaivors

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Projective tests

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Based on the assumption that people faced with an ambiguous stimulus such as an “inkblot” will project their own needs, personalityies, and conflicts
Ex. Rorschac and TAT

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Behaivoral assessment

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Measure overt behaivors or responses shown by a person

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Organismic variables

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A person’s physiological or cognitive characteristics that may help the therapist understand a problem and determine treatment

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Naturalistic observation

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Client is directly observed in their natural environment

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Self monitoring

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A person observes and records his own emotions, thoughts, and behaivors

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Dysfunctional thought record

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Helps identify and monitor situations, thoughts, responses, and outcomes associated with problems such as depression

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Biological assessment examples

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Neuroimaging
Neurochemical assesments
Psychophysiological assesments
Neuropsychological assesment

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Neurochemical assesment

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-biological assesment of difunction in certain NT systems

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Metabolites

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Products of NT’s that can be found in the blood and cerebral spinal fluid that indicates levels of NT’s in the brain

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Psychophysiological assesment

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Evaluating bodily changes associated with certain mental conditions
Ex.s EEG, Galvanic skin conductance, EKG

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Neuropsychological assesments

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Indirect, non invasive measures of brain and physical function
Ex. Bender Visual moter Gestalt test

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Scientific method steps

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1. Generate the hypothesis
2. Develope a research design
3. Analyze and interpret data

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Hypothesis must be

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Testable and falsifiable

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External validity

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The extent to which the result can be generalized to the whole population

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Natural experiment

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Observational study in which nature itself helps assign groups

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Cross sectional studies

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-examing differnt groups of people at one point in time

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Sequential design

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Begins as a cross sectional study but the groups are examined over a shorter time frame