Definitions Flashcards
ABC’s of behaviour
Antecedence
Behaviours
Consequences
The client’s relevant feelings, behaviours, and thoughts.
Clinical description
Refers to ability of a criterion or diagnosis to predict other current clinical characteristics or whether diagnoses obtained agree with some gold standard
Concurrent Validity
Refers to whether the items included in the questionnaire provide coverage of all relevant domains
Content Validity
Refers to if measures correlate as expected with external validator’s It refers to the observation of strong correlations between two tests that are assumed to measure the same construct
Convergent Validity
The pattern the disorder follows… Chronic, episodic, time limited
Course
The ________ _________ is the disorder described from the perspective of the patient’s personal experience and in terms of their primary social and ________ group.
Cultural formulation | Culture
What social norms or values are being violated or pursued?
Culture
Specifies a problem and thereby a treatment method It also allows us to do research on specific problems to see what specifically works.
Diagnosis
Who is being harmed? To what degree?
Distress
North American system containing the criteria for mental disorders.
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
What is it that’s not working? Biological, sociological, and psychological.
Dysfunction
Origin of the problem (biological, social, psychological)
Etiology
Refers to the common sense meaning of a diagnosis or criterion and is based on whether the instrument appears to assess the construction in question
Face Validity
Available from the world health organization. Cross references with the DSM.
The international classification of diseases ICD10
Number of new cases in a given year.
Incidence
Having a diagnostic concordance between two different raters for the same interview
Joint Reliability
Different paths can result from the interaction of psychological and biological factors during various stages of development; Different paths can end up in the same place
Lifespan Development Equifinality
Clothing/self care Psychomotor activity Too much? Too little? Should a physical exam be recommended?
Metal Health Exam
- Appearance and behaviour
Prosody Absolutist Language Ideas of (self-reference)
Metal Health Exam
- Though Process
Consistency Affect-Content match
Metal Health Exam
- Mood and Affect
Book/Folk language Concrete vs. Conceptual
Metal Health Exam
- Intellectual Functioning
- Sensorium Who/Where/When | awareness of surroundings in terms of self and clinician, time, and place / oriented x3
Metal Health Exam
- Sensorium
Refers to the ability of a criterion or diagnosis to predict the natural course of an illness or it’s response to treatment
Predictive Validity
The number or proportion of cases of the problem/disorder that will exist over the course of a year.
Prevalence
Predicted outcome of treatment; good, fair, poor
Prognosis
Our behaviour changes when we know that we are being watched
Reactivity
Related to reactivity
Measurement reactivity
Observer effect
Hawthorne effect
Observer expectancy effect
Subjective expectancy effect
Reactive measures
Degree to which a Measure is consistent;
Test-retest
Inter-rater
Reliability
You act differently when you know that you are watching yourself
Self-Monitoring
2 to 3 is mild 4 to 5 is moderate 6 to 11 is severe
Severity of substance use disorder
7 Social Functions of Substances
- Ceremonial
- Secular Social
- Medicinal
- Dietary
- Recreational
- Competition
- Others
Norms or rules for consistent use and interpretation of Assessment tools;
Administration norms
Scoring norms
Standardization
All four listed criteria must be met:
A) Recent Use
B) Clinically significant problematic Behavioural or Physiological changes
C) Checklist of physical symptoms (two or more)
D) The signs and symptoms are not attributable to another medical condition or better explained by another mental disorder including intoxication from another substance
Stimulant intoxication
Stimulant Use disorder, stimulant intoxication, stimulant withdrawal, stimulant induced disorders.
Stimulant related disorders
Stimulant Usage (methods used)
66% smoke
18% injected
10% snort
A) Cessation of or reduction in prolonged use
B) dysphoric mood and two or more Physiological changes listed developing within a few hours to several days after A
C) Signs and symptoms in B cause clinically significant distress or impairment in social occupational or other important areas of functioning
D) Signs or symptoms not attributable to another medical condition and not better explained by another mental disorder including intoxication or with drawl from another substance
Stimulant Withdrawal Disorder Diagnosis
A maladaptive pattern of substance use leading to clinically significant impairment or distress as manifested by two or more of the listed criteria, occurring within a 12 month period.
Substance use disorder
Two different rates of the same interview, or the same participant interviewed independently at two different time points
Test-Retest Reliability
Compulsion - Obsession with alcohol drugs or gambling control
Control - Inability to stop using alcohol drugs or gambling consequences
Consequences - Continued maladaptive behaviour despite adverse consequences
The three C’s
Weather something measures what we want it to;
Concurrent (WASI to WAIS)
Predictive (behavior, performance)
Validity
3 Views of Addiction
- Moral (some behaviours are bad)
- Disease(some behaviours are caused by disease)
- Maladaptiveness (some learning is dangerous)
