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Scientific evaluation of psychological, biological, and social factors that can manifest on a person.

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Clinical assessment

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Why is psychology soft science?

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Mostly uses theories

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Process of determining whether the particular problem afflicting the individual meets all the criteria for a psychological disorder. part of psych report

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Diagnosis

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3 aspects/ basic concepts to help determine the value of assessments.

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Reliability
Validity
Standardization

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Degree to which a measurement is consistent.

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Reliability

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Measures what needs to be measured.

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Validity

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Comparing the results of an assessment measure under consideration with the results of others that are better known; allows you to begin to determine the validity of the first measure.

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Concurrent/ Descriptive Validity

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How well your assessment tells you what will happen in the future.

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Predictive validity

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Lessen negative effect.

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Inter-rater Reliability

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Application of certain standards to ensure consistency across different measurements; uniform; lessen biases.

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Standardization

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Core of most clinical work; gathers info on current and past behavior, attitudes, and emotion, as we as a detailed history of the individual’s life in general and of presenting problems.

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Clinical Interview

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Involves the systematic observation of an individual’s behavior.

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Mental Status Examination (MSE)

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5 categories of MSE.

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Physical appearance & behavior
Thought process
Mood & Affect
Intellectual Functioning
Sensorium

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14
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Example of clinical interview.

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MSE

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Note any overt physical traits and behaviors.

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Physical appearance & behvior

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Rate or flow of speech.

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Thought Process

17
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Disorganized speech pattern.

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Loose association/ Derailment

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Object or event is present but is actually absent.

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Hallucination

19
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Seeing something but with a different perspective.

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Illusion

20
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Beliefs with no basis/ factual evidence; distorted view of reality.

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Delusion

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A person thinks people are after him and out to get him all the time.

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Persecutory delusion

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An individual thinks they’re all-powerful in some ways.

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Grandeur delusion

23
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Everything everyone else does somehow relates back to them.

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Ideas of reference

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3 types of delusion.

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Persecutory delusion
Grandeur delusion
Ideas of reference

25
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Pre-dominant feeling or state of an individual.

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Mood

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Feeling/ state that accompanies what we say at a given point.

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Affect

27
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General awareness of surrounding.

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Sensorium

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