Diagnostics and Assessment Flashcards
WAIS IV
- Cognitive/IQ Assessment
- Normed on diverse populations
- 10 subtests in core battery
- Additional subtests
Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory (MCMI)
- 195 Items
- personality, emotional adjustments, attitude toward test taking
- 8th grade reading level
- Looks at disorders and related symptomology
- personality scales are stable compared to clinical scales
- Low interdiagnostician agreement
Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI)
- 344 items
- Examines behavior patterns, feelings, opinions, and reactions towards different situations
- Focused on clinical utility
- Limited use with Latinx population but good norming with diverse populations
PHQ-9
- Short measure (9 questions)
- Assesses for depression
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, 3rd Edition
- long assessment
- Thorough validity scales
- test created for use with clinical populations
- Native Americans score high on psychosis scales because assessment is not culturally responsive
Adjustment Disorder
- onset within 3 months of stressor
- marked distress out of proportion to severity of stressor or significant impairment
- no longer than 6 months
- Specifiers: depressed mood, anxiety, mixed anxiety and depressed mood
Prolonged Grief Disorder
- dead occurred over 12 months ago
- Intense yearning for person or preoccupation with thoughts/memories of the deceased
- identity disruption, disbelief, avoidance of reminders, intense emotional pain, difficulty reintegrating into relationships
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Generalized Anxiety Disorder
- excessive anxiety and worry on more days than not for at least 6 months
- difficulty controlling worry
- sxs: restlessness, easily fatigued, difficulty concentrating, irritability, muscle tension, sleep disturbance
Social Anxiety Disorder
- anxiety lasting longer than 6 months
- worry stems from interactions
- fear that anxiety sxs will be negatively evaluated
- social situations almost always invoke worry
- impacts functioning
Bipolar I Disorder
- elevated and persistent irritable mood for at least one week
- Mania
Bipolar II Disorder
Hypomanic episode for at least one week
Major depressive episode
Cyclothymic Disorder
Major depressive episode
Several hypomanic symptoms, but does not need criteria for a full episode
Major Depressive Disorder
Lasts for at least 2 week
depressed mood on most of the day nearly everyday, anhedonia, significant weight loss, insomnia/hypersomnia, psychomotor agitation, fatigue, feelings of worthlessness, difficulty with thinking/decision makining, recruent thoughts of death
Persistent Depressive Disorder
- formerly dysthmia
- depressed mood for most of the day for more days than not for at least 2 years
- sxs: poor appetite or overeating, insomnia/hypersomnia, low energy or fatigue, low self-esteem, poor concentration, feelings of hopelessness
Adaptive Behavior Assessment System
complete picture of adaptive skills across the lifespan
places cognitive functioning in context
Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
several symptoms must have been present prior to age 12
presenting in at least two settings (e.g., home, work, school)
functional impairment
ADHD Inattention Presentation
at least 6 sxs that persist for at least 6 months
lack of attention to detail, difficulty sustaining attention, appears to not listen when spoken to, doesn’t follow through on instructions, difficulty with organizing tasks, doesnt like tasks that require sustained attention, often loses necessary items, distracted by extraneous stimuli, appears forgetful
ADHD Hyperactivity Presentation
6 or more symptoms that persist for at least 6 months
sxs: figets, leaves seat, restlessness, unable to engage in leisure activities, “drive by motor,” talks excessively, blurts out answer, difficult waiting for turn, interrupts or intrudes on others
