Chapter 9: Integration and Clinical decision making

Question 1

biases

Answer 1

judgements that are systematically diff from what a person should conclude based on logic or personality

Question 2

case formulation

Answer 2

a description of the patient that provides info on his or her life situation, current problems and a set of hypotheses linking psychosocial factors with the patient’s clinical condition

Question 3

computer based interpretations

Answer 3

reports generated by computer programs that match a patient’s general pattern of responses on a psych test to summaries of research evidence about a typical characteristics of people with the same pattern of test responses

Question 4

heuristics

Answer 4

mental shortcuts that make decision making easier and faster but often lead to less accurate decisions

Question 5

retrospective recall

Answer 5

using data that rely on people to remember events that happened to them at some point in the past

Question 6

self serving attributional bias

Answer 6

a tendency to take more personal credit for successes than for failures, by attributing success but not failures to internal, stable, and global causes

Question 7

therapeutic model of assessment

Answer 7

an approah to psychological assessment that in which clients are actively encouraged to participate in discussions about the reasons for the assessment, the results of the testing and how the assessment data should be integrated and interpreted

Question 8

Stephen finn

Answer 8

developed the therapeutic model of assessment

feedback can influence client emotional functioning

Question 9

howard garb

Answer 9

heuristics

Question 10

Jacqueline Persons

Answer 10

cognitve bahviroual case formulation
emphasizes the importance of identifying a patient’s overt problems and long-standing beliefs, that, when activated by life events, are believed to cause the overt problems