clinical assessment Flashcards
what is a clinical interview
first form of contact with clinitian
what do questions in a clinical interview relate to
symptoms
past history
current living and working conditions
what are structured interviews for
provide good agreement on diagnosis using DSM5
what is a mini mental state examination
orientation attention memory naming apraxia construction
what are two limitations of clinal review
clinets have poor self awareness
interviewers prone to bias
what are 3 psychological tests
personality structure and experience
cognitive tests
introduction
what is the most common personality inventory
minnesota multiphasic personality inventory (MMPI) is most common
what are three characteristics of MMPI
has 567 items on 14 different measurement scales
includes validity scale
clincal scales
what is validity scale
measures whether clients have been providing invalid information
what is included in clincal scales
hypochondriasis
depression
paranoia
schizophrenia
describe MMPI response profile for validitty scale
faking is high
what are specific inventories
developed to measure functioning in one specific area
what are two specific inventories
BDI-becks depression inventory
HADS- hospital anxiety and depression scale
what is a projective test
present a fixed set of stimuli that are ambiguous enough to allow a variety of interpretations
opened ended so less relaible than strucutred tests
what is the thematic apperception test
asked to produce a fantasy story to pictures
insight into motivation and needs
what is rohrschach test
participants asked to describe what is depicted
what are three projective tetss
rorhrschach
thematic apperception
sentence completion test
what are three intelligence tests
IQ test
ravens progressive matrices
wechsler adult intelligence scale
what are IQ tests for
diagnose intellectual and learning difficulties
measure neurological impairment
what is ravens progressive matrices test
shapes presented on arrows which ones best match to given pictures
what is weschler adult intelligence scale
verbal tests and performance tests
what are three problems with performance tests
iq tests culturally bias
current concepts of intelligence too narrow
iq dont measure capacity to learn
what is neurological impairments test
designed to measure cognitive ability and cognitive deficits
determines whether deficits are result of brain damage
what are 4 examples of neurological impairments tests
digit span and corsi block tapping RBMT FEEST BADS REY
what us ABC charts
used for case formulation
what does ABC stand for
antecendents of behaviour
behaviour itself
consequences of behaviour
