Clinical and Counseling Assessment

Question 1

Primary focus is on the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of abnormal behavior

Answer 1

Clinical Psychology

Question 2

Focuses more on everyday type of concerns

Answer 2

Counseling Psychology

Question 3

DSM

Answer 3

• insensitive to certain cultures

- provides no guidance as to what method of treatment will be optimally effective

Question 4

Multidimensional approach to assessment that includes an exploration of relevant biological, psychological, social, cultural, environmental variable for the purpose of evaluating such variables may have contributed to the development and maintenance of a presenting problem

Answer 4

Biopsychosocial assessment

Question 5

Belief that what happens in life is largely beyond a person’s control

Answer 5

Fatalism

Question 6

Agreement between client and therapist setting forth goals, expectations and mutual obligations with regard to a course of therapy

Answer 6

Therapeutic contract

Question 7

Designed to retain the best features of a hypnotic interview but without hypnotic induction; use imagery and focused on retrieval to recall info

Answer 7

Cognitive interview

Question 8

Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory-III

Answer 8

Yield scores related to enduring personality features as well as acute symptoms

Question 9

Group of tests including 1 intelligence test, 1 personality test, 1 test to screen neurological deficit

Answer 9

Standard battery

Question 10

Person who insisted on using a battery of tests and not a single test

Answer 10

David Rapaport

Question 11

Sources of cultural influence when assessing clients

Answer 11

ADRESSING -age, ethnicity, religion, ethnicity, social status, sexual orientation, indigeneous heritage, national origin, gender

Question 12

Theory and application of psychological evaluation and measurement in a legal context

Answer 12

Forensic Psychology

Question 13

Competency to stand trial

Answer 13

Defendant’s ability to understand the charges against him and assist in his own defense

Question 14

M’Naghten Standard

Answer 14

Right or wrong test

Question 15

Durham standard

Answer 15

If unlawful act was the product of mental disease or defect

Question 16

ALI Standard

Answer 16

Person not culpable, if at the time of such conduct, is a result of a mental defect, he lacks substantial capacity either to appreciate criminality of his conduct

Question 17

Anatomically Detailed Dolls (ADD)

Answer 17

• Assessment for sexual abuse in children

- Dolls represent genitalia

Question 18

Contents of a Psychological report

Answer 18

• Demographic data
• Reason for referral
• tests adminstered
• findings (all background material, behavioral observations, test data integrated)
• recommendations
• summary

Question 19

Actuarial Assessment

Answer 19

Application of empirically demonstrated statistical rules and probabilities as a determining factor in clinical judgment

Question 20

Clinical/Actuarial Prediction

Answer 20

Application of a clinician’s own training and clinical experience as a determining factor in clinical judgment and actions

Question 21

Mechanical prediction

Answer 21

Application of empirically demonstrated statistical rules and probabilities to the computer generation of findings and recommendations; 10% more accurate than clinical approach