Final Study Guide Flashcards
List objective personality tests for healthy adults
- Based on Jung’s theory: MBTI Myer’s Briggs Type Indicator
- Factor analytic design: 16 PF personality factor
- Folk concept: CPI California Psychological Inventory
List objective personality test for assessing psychopathology
- (MMPI) Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory
* (MCMI) Million Clinical Multiaxial Inventory
List projective personality tests
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)
List projective drawing Tests
DAP draw a person
HTP house tree person
KFD kinetic family drawing
KSD Kinetic school drawing
List specific mental health needs tests:
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
List vocational/career interest tests:
Self-directed search SDS
ASVAB
Kuder Tests
Strong Inventory Test
Name 2 computer career tests
- SIGI
2. Discover
List 2 self-concept inventories
- Multidimensional self-esteem Inventory
- Coopersmith self-esteem Inventory
- Piers Harris self-concept Inventory
List behavioral checklists
2 broadband:
(BASC) behavioral assessment system for children
(ASEBA) the Achenbach System of Empirically Based Assessment
1 narrow band:
Conner’s comprehensive behavioral scales
Interest measurement was stimulated by the needs for:
Career and education guidance needs
Name important career interest theorist discussed in class
John Holland
Strong Interest Inventory:
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.
Name and describe RIASEC
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
Self Administering Self Scoring Interest Inventory
John Holland’s SDS
List and describe/contrast each of the poles in the MBTI’s 4 dimensions (E-I etc.)
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 worldDescribe the 16 PF
- Objective personality test designed to be used for healthy individuals
- Consists of 16 factors and their opposites
- It was developed by the use of factor analysis
- Make use of validity scales and Sten scores to decrease social desirability
HEALTHY OBJECTIVE PERSONALITY TEST
CPI
- Called the sane person’s MMPI
- Higher scores indicate a healthier individual
- Uses t-scores
- Uses validity scales for social desirability responses
HEALTHY OBJECTIVE PERSONALITY TEST
California Psychological Inventory
MMPI
- Major use is to determine level of psychopathology
- 4 main validity scales (why were these developed) to detect social desirability
- 10 clinical scales:
Hypochondriasis
Depression
Hysteria
Psychopathic Deviate
Masculinity/ Femininity
Paranoia
Psychastenia
Schizophrenia
Hypomania
Social Introversion - T score cutoff 65
MCMI
Million Clinical Multiaxial Inventory
Used on people suspected of having a mental disorder
Compare and Contrast the MMPI and the MCMI
- MCMI is shorter, takes less time to administer/score
- MCMI is closely tied to psychiatric classification and theory
- MCMI is used when in suspicion of psychopathology
Both level C: written in fifth grade language
Projectives can be best characterized as:
- UNSTRUCTURED
- And it’s stimuli as being AMBIGUOUS in nature.
- They have been designed mainly to REVEAL COVERT/ UNCONSCIOUS ASPECTS OF PERSONALITY and to bring out more complex information regarding the individual.
Describe the Rorschach Inkblot Test
- Used for teens
- Scoring system and it’s importance:
Exner Scoring System:High interrater reliability Empirical and systematic approach to the administration and interpretation of the test
Describe the TAT
Thematic Apperception Test- he Test taker makes a story about a card
Describe the CAT
Children’s Apperception Test- humans and animals
Describe the RAT
Robert’s Apperception Test- children
Describe the TEMAS
Tell Me a Story- urban and diverse pictures
Describe Adler’s Lifestyle Inventory Test and its historical importance:
- Used for recollection of early memories
2. To understand family constellation; sibling order
Describe the Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales and its use:
- Assess functional behavior (ADLs-activities of daily living) (from birth to adulthood)
- Used for diagnosis and educational placement
- Meant to assist in the diagnosis of intellectual and developmental disabilities, autism, and developmental delays and school placement
- From birth throughout adulthood
What is the appropriate use of the Bender Gestalt?
- To screen for visual motor maturity and developmental disorders
- To assess neurological functioning damage
What is an inappropriate use of the Bender Gestalt?
As a projective personality test
What is social desirability? What do some tests have to do to adjust this factor?
- The tendency to portray ourselves in socially desirable ways that are provided or viewed by others
- Tests use validity scores to prevent this
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.
- Suicidality and Self-Injury
- ask directly, write verbatim
- check for ideation, intent, and/or plan (baker act, give to police)
- follow up
- 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
- Abuse
- sexual, physical, financial, neglect
- children, elderly, disabled
- call 1800. 96 ABUSE
- Substance Abuse
- ask about the use of substances
- refer to CAP
- assess for suicidality, homocidality, and abuse=disinhibited (Marchman act)
- 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)
- get history of diagnosis and medication suicide attempts etc
