Class 10

Question 1

Comprehensive System

Answer 1

Comprehensive System - Revised (2022)

Question 2

Assessment and Diversity

Answer 2

Martin, H. (2018). Collaborative Therapeutic Assessment and Diversity: The complexity of being human. In Diversity Sensitive Psychological Assessment. Eds Krishnamurthy and Smith.

Value for multicultural issues because we try to look at the unique individual by incorporating their unique context.

We use nomothetic means, but that must be tempered by an idiographic picture that captures a unique individual in all their complexity.

Question 3

Collaborative/Therapeutic Assessment

Answer 3

Especially true with Therapeutic Assessment

> Starting with questions about a persons problem in living - meeting them where they are

We have the client teach us about their world

Requires integration of data from a range of sources (history, self-report, performance based tests, etc.)

> Use appropriate norms
Look underneath cultural distinctions - to the person below
A person my report what might seem psychotic behaviors (talking to god) and the Rorschach can help us truly see if there is psychosis or if it is a cultural manifestation

Question 4

Therapeutic Assessment is Tailor-made to have this effect:

Answer 4

Collaboration refines understanding to fit the client

Testing provides hard evidence that can be used to present as inconsistent with the clients’ trauma conclusions

Extended Inquire

Assessment Intervention Session

Summary/Discussion Session

Question 5

Vibrancy of Assessment

Answer 5

Collaborative/Therapeutic Assessment

Wartegg Drawing Completion Test

AAP

Thurstone-Cradock Test of Shame

fMRI studies

Assessment that Matters (Menniger model)