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