Data based 2 Flashcards
highly scripted and involve asking a series of yes-no questions regarding the presence of symptoms
Structure Interviews
allow the interviewer slightly more leeway in questioning and typically consist of open-ended as well as structured questions
Semistructured interviews
o Age range: 6-16
o Standardization group with least number of parents with some college education: African Americans
o Mean and Standard Deviation: 100 and 15
o Subtest mean and standard deviation: 10 and 3
o Recommended length of time between test and retest = 9 months
o The index most highly correlated with g is: Verbal Comprehension
o In test-retest, picture completion showed the largest increase on retest and comprehension showed the smallest increase
WISC - IV
Who should not receive the WISC-IV?
Children with possible FSIQS below 40, above 160, or with any kind of severe disability
o Age range: 2:6 - 7:7
o Verbal Comprehension, Visual Spatial, Working Memory, Fluid Reasoning, Processing Speed, FSIQ
WPPSI-IV
o Age range: 17+
o Verbal, Nonverbal (Perceptual), Processing Speed, Working Memory, and FSIQ
WAIS-III
7 Components of CHC theory
Comprehension Knowledge (Gc) Long-term Retrieval (Glr) Visual Processing (Gv) Auditory Processing (Ga) Fluid Reasoning (Gf) Processing Speed (Gs) Short-term Memory (Gsm)
o Age range: 3-18
o Based on the Luria and CHC model (Luria excludes verbal subtests/Gc section, which is good for CLD students
o More culturally fait than other traditional measures by limiting verbal instructions and responses as well as using items with limited cultural content
o Factor analyses support a general factor as well as specific factors
Kaufman Assessment battery for Children (KABC-II)
o Age range: 11-85
o Older version of KABC
o Focused on crystallized and fluid intelligence
-Crystallized Scale measure concepts acquired from schooling and acculturation
-Fluid scale taps the ability to solve new problems
o Items require the kind of problem solving typical of Piaget’s formal operational thought and the planning evaluative functions that characterize adult thinking, according to Luria (1980) and Golden (1981)
Kaufman Adult Intelligence Test (KAIT)
o Age range: 4-90
o It should not be substituted for a comprehensive measure of intellectual abilities
o Not just a shortened version of the KABC or the KAIT - it consists of one verbal subset of Expressive Vocabulary items and Definitions, and one subtest of Matrices
o The three scores (verbal, nonverbal, and composite) are expressed in terms of deviation IQ units, just like those of the other Kaufman scales
o The length of the subtests results in higher reliability coefficients than those typical of short forms of other scales
Kaufman Brief Intelligence Test (K-BIT)
o Age range: parent & teacher forms - 6-18, self-report - 8-48
o Greatest focus is on ADHD, but it also addresses comorbid disorders such as oppositional defiant disorder and conduct disorder
o Includes teacher, parent, and self-report forms
o Validity scales: positive impression, negative impression, and inconsistency index
o Assessment of executive functioning to parent and teacher forms
o Severe conduct critical items
o Screener items for anxiety and depression
o Ability to measure how problems are impacting a child’s life at home, school and with friends with the addition of impairment questions
Conners 3rd Edition
o Age range: Birth-90
o Includes parent/caregiver rating form and teacher rating form
o Domains and Adaptive Behavior Composite M=100, SD=15; Subdomain M=15, SD=3
o Supports the diagnosis of intellectual and developmental disabilities
o Communication (receptive, expression, written), Daily Living Skills (personal, domestic, community), Socialization (interpersonal relationships, paly and leisure time, coping skills), Motor Skills (fine and gross), Maladaptive Behavior Index - Optional (internalizing, externalizing, other)
o Measures adaptive behavior of indivdiuals with: Intellectual and developmental disabilities, ASDs, ADHD, pos-traumatic brain injury, hearing impairment, and dementia/alzheimer’s
Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales (Vineland-II)
o Age range: birth-89:11
o Includes parent and teacher form
o Assesses all ten specific adaptive skill areas in the DSM
o Linked to the Wechsler scales - extended validity studies allow you to evaluate the relationship between adaptive skills and intelligence and ability
Adaptive Behavior Assessment System (ABAS-2)
o Age range: 7-17
o Scales: emotional problems & functional problems; Subscales: negative mood/physical symptoms, negative self-esteem, interpersonal problems, & ineffectiveness
Children’s Depression Inventory (CDI-2)
Age range: 13-80
o Is in line with the depression criteria from the DSM
Beck Depression Inventory (BDI-2)
o Age range: 17-80
o Items are descriptive of subjective, somatic, or panic-related symptoms of anxiety
Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI)
o Age range: 17-80
o Predictor of eventual suicide by measuring three major aspects of hopelessness: feelings about the future, loss of motivation, and expectations
o Respondents either endorse a pessimistic statement or deny an optimistic statement
Beck Hopelessness Scale (BHS)
o Age range: CBCL - 6-18 (completed by parents), TRF - 6-18 (completed by teachers), YSR - 11-18 (completed by youths)
o Syndrome scales: anxious/depressed, withdrawn/depression, somatic complaints, social problems, thought problems, attention problems, rule-breaking behavior, & aggressive behavior
o DSM oriented scales: affective problems, anxiety problems, somatic problems, ADHD, ODD, CD
Achenbach Child Behavior CheckList
o Age range: 4-18
o Parent and teacher forms
o Disruptive behavior, emotional problems, social withdrawal, ability deficits, physical deficits, weak-self-confidence,& attention and impulse control problems
Burks Behavior Rating Scales (BBRS-2)
Measures of personality, social/emotional fx and bx: Drawing techniques
Draw a person, House tree person, Kinetic Family Drawing
o Age range: 10+
o Subject projects his current feelings and issues onto ten, examiner chosen, ambiguous pictures
o Pictures are designed to stimulate descriptions about relationships and social situations
o The subject will describe his personal feeling on these themes and the examiner will look for recurrent drives, emotions, conflicts, and complexes
Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)
o Age range: 3-11
o Child will project his current feelings and issues by telling stories about ten pictures of animals in various settings
o Pictures are designed to assess personality, level of maturity, and psychological health
Children’s Apperception Test (CAT)
Age range: 6-18
o Helps evaluate a child’s social understanding by using a unique free narrative storytelling format
o Assesses adaptive social perception (development measure) and maladaptive or atypical social perception (clinical measure)
o Three versions of the Test Pictures: Caucasian, African-American, and Hispanic
o Child is shown each test care and is asked to create a complete story based on what he or she perceives in the picture
o Scales: theme overview, available resources, problem identification, resolution, emotion, outcome, unusual or atypical responses
Roberts Apperception Test for Children (Roberts-2)
Hs: Hypochondriasis D: Depression Hy: Hysteria Pd: Psychopathic deviate Mf: Masculinity-femininity Pa: Paranoia Pt: Psychasthenia Sc: Schizophrenia Ma: Mania Si: Social Introversion
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventories (MMPI-2) 10 basic clinical scales
L: Lie Score - based on a group of items that make the respondent appear in a favorable light but are unlikely to be truthfully answered
F: Infrequency Score - do not fit any particular pattern of abnormality, so it is unlikely that any one person will actually show all or most of these symptoms; high F indicates scoring errors, carelessness in responding, gross eccentricity, psychotic processes, or deliberate malingering
K: Correction Score - high K indicates defensiveness, or an attempt to “fake good” while a low K represents excessive frankness and self-criticism or a deliberate attempt to “fake bad”
If L or K exceeds a specified value, the record is invalid
MMPI-II Validity Scales
o Age range: 3-16
o Difference between PIC and MMPI: the true-false questions are not answered by the child, but by a knowledgeable adult, usually the mother
o Validity scales: Lie (make the child appear in an unrealistically favorable light), Frequency (rarely endorsed items), Defensiveness (assess parental defensiveness about the child’s behavior)
o Clinical scales assess cognitive development and academic achievement, several well-established types of emotional and interpersonal problems, and the psychological climate of the family
Personality Inventory for Children (PIC)
o Age range: Kindergarten through sixth grade
o Intended to be used to assess several of the “big ideas” in basic literacy skills
o Phonological awareness: ability to hear and manipulate sounds in words
Initial Sounds Fluency: child is asked to identify out of four pictures one that begins with a certain letter
Phoneme Segmentation Fluency: student is asked to verbally break words into their individual phonemes
o Alphabetic principle: the ability to link letters to sounds and to form words
Nonsense Word Fluency: requires students to read nonsense words presented on paper or to verbally produce the letter sounds in the nonsense word
o Fluency with connected text: ability to effortlessly read words in context
Oral Reading Fluency: measure of fluency with connected text in which students are required to read passages aloud
Letter Naming Fluency: students are asked to name letters presented on paper, is intended to provide a measure of risk of early literacy problems
Students considered to be at-risk are provided with instructional support to attempt to increase their literacy skills
Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills (DIBELS)
interviews as well as rating scales and record reviews are used to identify and describe the behavior of concern and to generate hypotheses regarding the function of the behavior. Functional assessment interviews have four purposes, accomplished by asking questions about what the behavior looks like as well as the context and setting in which the behavior occurs
Indirect FBA
observations are conducted, used to better identify functional relationships between the behaviors of concern and environmental factors
Direct descriptive FBA