Clinical assessment Flashcards
What are the 5 methods of assesment?
- Clinical assessment
- Personality inventories
- Psychological tests
- Biologically based assessments
- Clinical observation
What is the nature of clinical interviews?
Questions relate to symptoms, client’s past history, current living and working conditions
What is the advantage of a structured interview?
provides good agreement on diagnosis between clinicians
What are the 2 main biases of a clinical interview?
- Self-awareness - clients may withhold information
2. Interviewer bias
What are psychological tests?
- Assess the client on one or more specific dimensions with rigid response and scoring requirements
- scores can be standardised to provide norms
Give an example of a personality inventory
- Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)
- Includes various psychological scales and sub-scales on whether clients provide accurate information
What are specific inventories?
Measure function in one specific area of psychology
What are projective tests?
- Present a fixed set of stimuli that are ambiguous enough to allow a variety of interpretations
- Less reliable/valid than structured tests
How did Murray (1938) try an explain behaviour?
- motives (needs)
- environment (press)
How are IQ tests used by clinicians?
- Diagnose intellectual and learning disabilities
- Assess needs of an individual
What is the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS)?
Consists of verbal (comprehension, information, arithmetic) and performance (picture completion, block design, object assembly) tasks
What are the problems with IQ tests?
- Measure hypothetical construct
- Biased with limited views
- Do not measure capacity to learn
What are neurological impairment tests?
- Designed to measure cognitive ability and cognitive deficits
- Determine whether the result of brain or neurological damage
Name 4 neurological impairment tests
- Rivermead Behavioural Memory Test
- Visual Object and Space Perception
- Facial Expression of Emotions
- Wisconsin Card Sorting Test
What is clinical observation?
- Direct observation of behaviour
- Provide information on frequency of behaviour, context and events following (ABC charts)
