Class 1: Introduction

Question 1

3 Types of Disorders

Answer 1

Developmental, Externalizing, Internalizing

Question 2

Comorbidity is the rule rather than the exception (T/F)

Answer 2

True

Question 3

3 most frequent disorders experienced by children/adolescents

Answer 3

Anxiety, Conduct Disorders, ADHD

Question 4

SP’s role in Student Mental Health

Answer 4

• Examine discrepeancies between services provided and ones they need
• Awareness of discrepancy between numbers of students they serve and those they don’t (subclinical)

Question 5

Behavioral assessment emphasizes that assessment should proceed as a _________ __________ enterprise that is sensitive to ongoing and _________ interactions among __________, ______, ________.

Answer 5

empirically grounded; reciprocal; behaviors, cognitions, and emotions.

Question 6

Characteristics of behavioral assessment

Answer 6

• Focus on child’s broader social environment (understanding of strengths and weaknesses)
• General problem solving strategies that link assessment to intervention
• Situational specificity in child’s thoughts, behaviors, feelings

Question 7

Behavioral assessment emphasizes

Answer 7

Situational specificity (stability/instability of child, family behaviors over time, contemporaneous controlling variables and direct samples of behavior)

Question 8

3 Main Informants in behavioral assessment

Answer 8

Parent, teacher, student

Question 9

Procedures of behavioral assessment

Answer 9

Direct observation, rating scales, interviews