Final Study Guide Flashcards

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List objective personality tests for healthy adults

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  • Based on Jung’s theory: MBTI Myer’s Briggs Type Indicator
  • Factor analytic design: 16 PF personality factor
  • Folk concept: CPI California Psychological Inventory
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List objective personality test for assessing psychopathology

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  • (MMPI) Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory

* (MCMI) Million Clinical Multiaxial Inventory

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List projective personality tests

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Rorschach’s ink blot test
children’s apperception test (CAP)
Reynolds apperception test (RAT)
Thematic apperception test (TAT)

TEMAS (tell me a story)
ROBERT2 (Roberts Apperception Test)

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List projective drawing Tests

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DAP draw a person
HTP house tree person
KFD kinetic family drawing
KSD Kinetic school drawing

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List specific mental health needs tests:

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Adults:
(BDI) Becks depression inventory,
(BAI) Becks anxiety inventory

Children and teens:
(CDI) children’s depression inventory
(RCMAS) revised children’s manifest anxiety scale Coopersmith Self Inventory
Piers-Harris self concept Inventory

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List vocational/career interest tests:

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Self-directed search SDS
ASVAB
Kuder Tests
Strong Inventory Test

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7
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Name 2 computer career tests

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  1. SIGI

2. Discover

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List 2 self-concept inventories

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  1. Multidimensional self-esteem Inventory
  2. Coopersmith self-esteem Inventory
  3. Piers Harris self-concept Inventory
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List behavioral checklists

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2 broadband:
(BASC) behavioral assessment system for children
(ASEBA) the Achenbach System of Empirically Based Assessment

1 narrow band:
Conner’s comprehensive behavioral scales

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Interest measurement was stimulated by the needs for:

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Career and education guidance needs

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11
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Name important career interest theorist discussed in class

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John Holland

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12
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Strong Interest Inventory:

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Its representative group: sample of males and females (representative if majority of occupations)

Its measurement principle: the higher the t score above 50) the more they match interest

Follow up research results: show a marked correspondence between initial interest scores and eventual occupational choice.

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Name and describe RIASEC

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general occupational themes

Realistic- technical, mechanical, physical, outdoor jobs

Investigative- analytical, scholarly, curiosity in science/math

Artistic- appreciation of creativity, arts, music, performance

Social- helping others

Enterprising- influencing others

Conventional- organizing data, record keeping, indoor work

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Self Administering Self Scoring Interest Inventory

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John Holland’s SDS

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List and describe/contrast each of the poles in the MBTI’s 4 dimensions (E-I etc.)

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1. Introversion- Extroversion 
    Energy acquisition 
2. Sensing- Intuition  
    How we gather information about the world
3. Feeling-Thinking 
     How we make decisions 
4. Judging- Perceiving 
     How we relate to the world
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Describe the 16 PF

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  1. Objective personality test designed to be used for healthy individuals
  2. Consists of 16 factors and their opposites
  3. It was developed by the use of factor analysis
  4. Make use of validity scales and Sten scores to decrease social desirability

HEALTHY OBJECTIVE PERSONALITY TEST

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CPI

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  1. Called the sane person’s MMPI
  2. Higher scores indicate a healthier individual
  3. Uses t-scores
  4. Uses validity scales for social desirability responses

HEALTHY OBJECTIVE PERSONALITY TEST

California Psychological Inventory

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MMPI

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  1. Major use is to determine level of psychopathology
  2. 4 main validity scales (why were these developed) to detect social desirability
  3. 10 clinical scales:
    Hypochondriasis
    Depression
    Hysteria
    Psychopathic Deviate
    Masculinity/ Femininity
    Paranoia
    Psychastenia
    Schizophrenia
    Hypomania
    Social Introversion
  4. T score cutoff 65
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MCMI

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Million Clinical Multiaxial Inventory

Used on people suspected of having a mental disorder

20
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Compare and Contrast the MMPI and the MCMI

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  1. MCMI is shorter, takes less time to administer/score
  2. MCMI is closely tied to psychiatric classification and theory
  3. MCMI is used when in suspicion of psychopathology
    Both level C: written in fifth grade language
21
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Projectives can be best characterized as:

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  1. UNSTRUCTURED
  2. And it’s stimuli as being AMBIGUOUS in nature.
  3. They have been designed mainly to REVEAL COVERT/ UNCONSCIOUS ASPECTS OF PERSONALITY and to bring out more complex information regarding the individual.
22
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Describe the Rorschach Inkblot Test

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  1. Used for teens
  2. Scoring system and it’s importance:
    Exner Scoring System:
     High interrater reliability
     Empirical and systematic approach to the                     administration and interpretation of the test
23
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Describe the TAT

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Thematic Apperception Test- he Test taker makes a story about a card

24
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Describe the CAT

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Children’s Apperception Test- humans and animals

25
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Describe the RAT

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Robert’s Apperception Test- children

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Describe the TEMAS

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Tell Me a Story- urban and diverse pictures

27
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Describe Adler’s Lifestyle Inventory Test and its historical importance:

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  1. Used for recollection of early memories

2. To understand family constellation; sibling order

28
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Describe the Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales and its use:

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  1. Assess functional behavior (ADLs-activities of daily living) (from birth to adulthood)
  2. Used for diagnosis and educational placement
  3. Meant to assist in the diagnosis of intellectual and developmental disabilities, autism, and developmental delays and school placement
  4. From birth throughout adulthood
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What is the appropriate use of the Bender Gestalt?

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  1. To screen for visual motor maturity and developmental disorders
  2. To assess neurological functioning damage
30
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What is an inappropriate use of the Bender Gestalt?

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As a projective personality test

31
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What is social desirability? What do some tests have to do to adjust this factor?

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  1. The tendency to portray ourselves in socially desirable ways that are provided or viewed by others
  2. Tests use validity scores to prevent this
32
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1-5 A. Identify and B. Describe (min 3 points) the 5 very important topics/areas that a counselor should assess during an initial intake. Draw the circle star scheme discussed in class and state there areas can be interrelated.

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  1. Suicidality and Self-Injury
    • ask directly, write verbatim
    • check for ideation, intent, and/or plan (baker act, give to police)
    • follow up
  2. Homocidality
    • Romantic triangles, disgruntled employees, and/or battered or abused persons
    • intent or plan (duty to warn third parties as well as baker act)
    • assess for suicidality
  3. Abuse
    • sexual, physical, financial, neglect
    • children, elderly, disabled
    • call 1800. 96 ABUSE
  4. Substance Abuse
    • ask about the use of substances
    • refer to CAP
    • assess for suicidality, homocidality, and abuse=disinhibited (Marchman act)
  5. Serious Mental Illness
    • get history of diagnosis and medication suicide attempts etc
      * schizophrenia OCD, MDD, BD
      * IF need for more services refer to community health center (medication, case management, psychotherapy and court involvement)