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Chapter 7: Psychopathology Flashcards

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Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM)

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Based on a medical model of behavior and emotional problems

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Multiaxial approach – 5 axes or dimensions

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  1. Clinical syndromes
  2. Developmental disorders and personality disorders
  3. Physical disorders
  4. Severity of psychosocial stressors
  5. Level of adaptive functioning
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New categories in DSM-5

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  • Hoarding Disorder
  • Binge Eating Disorder
  • Excoriation Disorder
  • Mild Neurocognitive Disorder
  • Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder
  • Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder
  • Social Communication Disorder
  • Somatic Symptom Disorder
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Future DSM’s Ideas

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  • Dimensional Model for Personality Disorders
  • Caffeine Use Disorder
  • Internet Use Gaming Disorder
  • Suicidal Behavior Disorder
  • Nonsuicidal Self-Injury
  • Attenuated Psychosis Syndrome
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What is the problem with comorbidity?

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Comorbidity = 2 or more disorders for the same person

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How does the book define mental disorder?

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a psychological pattern associated with distress
and/or impairment of functioning that reflects dysfunction in the person. (p. 162)

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What are the four ways of assessing mental disorders?

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  1. Ask person directly - Use an interview or a self-report inventory
  2. Ask someone who knows the person – interview or rating scale
  3. Observe the person in their natural environment
  4. Observe the person in a standardized-test situation
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What is the purpose of having tests for psychopathology?

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  • Answer a focused or specific diagnostic question
  • Explain in a broad way the client’s dynamics, psychological functioning, and personality structure
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How is a clinical interview described?

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a conversation with a purpose

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Structured vs. unstructured clinical interviews

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Structured: follows interview schedule (series of questions)

Unstructured: open questions, “how do you feel about…”

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For clinical interviews, what are some of the things the Mental Status Exam (MSE) look at?

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  • Appearance
  • Behavior
  • Orientation
  • Memory
  • Sensorium
  • Mood and affect
  • Intellectual functioning
  • Perceptual processes
  • Thought content
  • Thought process
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Describe the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-III (SCID)

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  • Semi-structured interview
  • Covers nine diagnostic areas
  • Trained interviewers
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Describe the Symptom Checklist 90R (SCL-90R)

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A commonly used screening inventory
Brief self-report measure to evaluate psychopathological problems and symptoms, as well as outcomes of treatment
90 items
assess degree of distress over the past 7 days
ages 13 and older
10-15 min
5-point scale
High validity, reliability, and utility

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Describe the Psychological Screening Inventory (PSI)

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Developed empirically to differentiate between normal subjects and psychiatric patients
a screening device not a diagnostic instrument
130 true-false items
Five scales: alienation, social nonconformity, discomfort, expression, defensiveness

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Describe the five scales of Psychological Screening Inventory (PSI)

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alienation:
social nonconformity:
discomfort:
expression:
defensiveness:

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Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) and MMPI-2
What was the original purpose?
Name some Characteristics.

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Original Purpose: Clinical prediction and personality description
Widely used objective personality measure
Assesses both personality structure and psychopathology—used more in clinical settings than as a fun, one-off personality test

Characteristics
* Easily administered and scored
* 6th grade reading level (MMPI)
* 8th grade reading level (MMPI-2)
* 60-90 minutes
* Interpretation
o Pattern or configuration of scales is important
* Reliability
o Test-retest is adequate
o Stability of configuration – not great
* Validity
o Compared MMPI profiles to relevant criterion groups
o Identify reliable nontest behavioral correlates
o Accuracy of interpretations of MMPI with clinicians

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Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) and MMPI-2
Current version? Items? Scales?

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Currently using the MMPI-2-RF (2008)
338 items over 51 scales
Items are nonredundant—this is actually a shorter version of the test!

Recommended for administration on the computer
Includes possibility of comparing to reference groups

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Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) and MMPI-2
What are the 10 Clinical Scales?

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  1. Hypochondriasis
  2. Depression
  3. Hysteria
  4. Psychopathic Deviate
  5. Masculinity/Femininity
  6. Paranoia
  7. Psychasthenia
  8. Schizophrenia
  9. Hypomania
    10.Social Introversion
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Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) and MMPI-2
What are the 4 validity scales in the original and what are the 3 that were added in the second?

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4 Validity Scales
1. Lie (L) – “Faking good” – items most people would not endorse
2. Infrequency (F) – Fewer than 10% of normal samples would endorse
3. Cannot say (CNS) – non-responding; items left blank
4. K – clinical defensiveness; differentiated between normal and psychiatric patients with normal profiles; suppressor variable

Added to the MMPI-2
5. Backpage Infrequency (Fb) – random responses on the back half of questions
6. Variable inconsistency (VRIN) – responses to item pairs with similar or opposite content
7. True response inconsistency (TRIN) – responses to item pairs with

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Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) and MMPI-2
Criterion keying, who was it based on?

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Developers determined whether an item differentiated two groups: psychiatric group versus “normal” group

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MMPI History: How were norms developed? What were some problems with the norms?

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1943: developed at University of Minnesota using empirical keying approach–NOT psychodynamic
* Major validity and generalizability issues
* Reference group was small and mostly consisted of people with the same/similar SES
Norms represent late-1930s to early-1940s Minnesotans
* Terminology being used was not relevant to population being tested
* Many disorders were eluded

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MMPI History: MMPI-2
What improvements were made?

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  • Standardized on a large, more representative sample (collected in mid 1980s)
  • Clinical Scales left intact
  • New items introduced via Content Scales
  • New Validity Scales (VRIN, TRIN, Fb)
  • Initial Skepticism
  • Relatively quick acceptance by clinicians
  • Disappointment by (some of) the scholarly community
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MMPI History: MMPI-2
What were the new validity scales added?

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MMPI History: MMPI-2

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MMPI History: MMPI-2-RF 2008 Name the "creators" and the overall objective.
Ben-Porath & Tellegen (2008) Overall Objective: Represent the clinically significant substance of the MMPI-2 item pool with a comprehensive set of psychometrically adequate measures: * Improve efficiency * Enhance construct validity
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MMPI History: MMPI-2-RF What was were thier strategies?
Overall Strategy: * First restructure the Clinical Scales (resulting in the Restructured Clinical [RC] Scales) * Then augment the RC Scales with needed additional measures
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MMPI History: MMPI-2-RF What were the five scales added?
* Higher-Order * Specific Problems * Interest * PSY-5 * Validity
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MMPI History: MMPI-2-RF
* Theoretically grounded and hierarchical scale structure * The following were reported in the MMPI-2-RF Technical Manual o Adequate reliability o Good evidence of construct validity o Broad range of replicable empirical correlates reflected in interpretive recommendations in MMPI-2-RF Manual for Administration, Scoring, and Interpretation
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MMPI-2
Content analysis of the items led to the development of content subscales 111 critical items have been identified which were reflective of severe psychopathology Factor analysis showed two dimensions: 1. Anxiety or general maladjustment 2. Repression or neuroticism
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MMPI-2
Over the years, over 500 additional scales have been developed from the pool of MMPI items Examples: Ego Strength, MacAndrew Alcoholism Scale, Psychopathology Five, Prejudice, Social status, Dominance, Success in baseball “The MMPI is not so much a test as a set of responses from which any number of scales might be devised” (Murphy & Davidshofer, 2004, p. 492)
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MMPI-2: Reliability
* Test-retest is adequate * Alpha coefficients for normative samples had a range from .34 to .87, but scale is heterogeneous
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MMPI-2: Validity
* Complex issue * Three categories * Studies that have compared the MMPI profiles of relevant criterion groups which have found significant differences * Identify reliable nontest behavioral correlates * There are correlates, but generalizability may not always be good * MMPI results and the clinician’s interpretations which aren’t as supportive
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MMPI-2: Are there racial differences?
Racial differences have been found, but study results are inconclusive. Larger differences between African-Americans and whites, than those found with Hispanic and white subjects.
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MMPI-3: What is the response format?
True/False versus Polytomous Outcome: Retain T/F format
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MMPI-3: What improvements were made?
Awkward/dated wording Simplification I love to go to dances. in now, I love to go dancing. I am apt to take (now, likely to feel) disappointments so keenly (now, strongly) that I can't put them out of my mind. * 43 simplified items retained for MMPI-3 development
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MMPI-3: Reason for new item development? Method of development?
New item development * Objective: Identify content missing from, or insufficiently represented by the MMPI-2-RF item pool Method: * Consultation with 12 MMPI-2-RF experts * Review of existing measures * Development of 135 Trial Items Outcome: * 95 trial items; candidates for inclusion on the MMPI-3
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MMPI-3: What are some new scales?
* Combined Response Inconsistency (CRIN) * Eating Concerns (EAT) * Compulsivity (CMP) * Impulsivity (IMP) * Self-Importance (SFI)
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MMPI-3: How many items were changed, added, and dropped?
* 72 new items added * 75 MMPI-2-RF items dropped MMPI-3: 335 items * 220 original MMPI (47 revised for MMPI-2 or MMPI-3) * 43 MMPI-2 items (5 revised for MMPI-3) * 72 new MMPI-3 Reading level remains grade 4.5 * (Flesch-Kincaid) Substantially Modified: * Anxiety (AXY) Anxiety-Related Experiences (ARX) * Stress/Worry (STW) Stress (STR); Worry (WRY) * Interpersonal Passivity (IPP) Dominance (DOM) Dropped: * Gastrointestinal Complaints (GIC), Head Pain Complaints (HPC) * Multiple Specific Fears (MSF) * Aesthetic/Literary Interests (AES) * Mechanical/Physical Interests (MEC)
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MMPI-3: How many scales? Describe them.
52 Scales * 10 Validity Scales * 3 Higher-Order Scales * 8 RC Scales * 26 Specific Problems Scales * 4 Somatic/Cognitive * 10 Internalizing * 7 Externalizing * 5 Interpersonal * 5 PSY-5 Scales
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Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory (MCMI)
Published in 1977 Biopsychosocial view of personality functioning and psychopathology Tried to address the criticisms of the MMPI Two dimensions: 1. Source of reinforcement 2. Pattern of coping behavior
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Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory (MCMI)
Clinical scales consistent with DSM 175 brief, self-descriptive true-false statements 24 Clinical scales 12-24 overlapping items which can appear in as many as 3 scales, but with different weights
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Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory (MCMI): What were the four main categories?
* Clinical Personality Patterns * Clinical Syndromes * Severe Personality Pathology * Severe Syndromes

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