Chapter 5: Assesment Methods & Techniques

Question 1

Psychodynamic Theories

Answer 1

-Explain the origin of the personality.
- They all emphasize unconscious motives and desires, as well as the importance of childhood experiences in shaping personality.
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Question 2

Psychoanalytical Theory

Answer 2

• Developed by Sigmund Freud
• Personalities arise because of attempts to resolve conflicts between unconscious sexual and aggressive impulses and societal demands to restrain these impulses.
  -“ A client is seen as the product of his past and treatment involves dealing with the repressed material in the unconscious.”

Question 3

According to Psychoanalytical theory, what are the three (3) Levels of Awareness?

Answer 3

Conscious: contains all the information that a client is paying attention to at any given time.
Preconscious: contains all the information outside of a client’s attention, but readily available if needed—thoughts and feelings that can be brought into consciousness easily.
Unconscious: contains thoughts, feelings, desires, and memories of which clients have no awareness but that influence every aspect of their day-to-day lives.

Question 4

According to Psychoanalytical theory, what are the three (3) Components of Personality?

Answer 4

ID: instinctual energy that contains biological urges such as impulses toward survival, sex, and aggression.
Ego: Manages the conflict between the ID and the constraints of the real world.
Super Ego:

Question 5

id

Question 6

Ego

Question 7

Super Ego

Question 8

Ego Syntonic

Question 9

Ego Dysntonic

Question 10

Psychosexual Development

Question 11

What are the five (5) stages of Psychosexual Development.

Answer 11

Oral
Anal
Phallic
Latency
Genital

Question 12

Individual Psychology

Question 13

Self Psychology

Question 14

Ego Psychology

Question 15

Other Specified Diagnosis

Answer 15

the client is missing one or two of the symptoms that are necessary for a diagnosis.

Question 16

Unspecified Diagnosis

Answer 16

When a client’s challenges fall within a certain group of disorders, but it’s not clear exactly which diagnosis in that group best suits the client

Doesn’t include detailed information or the reason that the criteria for a specific diagnosis are not met

Question 17

Specifiers

Answer 17

Are extensions to a diagnosis that further clarify the course, severity, or special features of the client disorders or illnesses.

Question 18

Intellectual Developmental Disorder

Question 19

Communication Disorders

Question 20

Qualitative Research

Question 21

Quantiative Research

Question 22

Secondary Data