Questions CA Flashcards
Why is a standardized administration neccesary?
To produce reliable and valid measurement.
What is the advantage of using standard scores?
They allow for comparisons across tests because they have equal units along the scale.
What is the advantage of using gender norm-referencing?
Gender norm-referencing could erase the gender effects in groups and subsequently reduce gender biases in diagnosing.
Why can normal distribution not be assumed for personality tests or behaviour ratings?
The distribution is non-normal. Forcing normality on a non-normal distribution could make interpretation of the scores easier but could lead to more false positives.
What’s important when explaining informed consent to a person who does not have the right to refuse participation (e.g. kids)?
- The clinician needs to seek the individual’s agreement
- Consider preferences and best interests
- Provide an appropriate explanation to people who cannot give informed consent.
What are the guidelines for working with a multicultural population?
- Recognize and understand that identity and self-definition are fluid and complex and that the interaction is dynamic.
- Understand that cultural attitudes and beliefs can influence perceptions of and interactions with others.
- Recognize and understand the role of language and communication through engagement that is sensitive to the lived experience of the individual.
- Be aware of the role of the social and physical environment in the lives of people.
- Recognize and understand historical and contemporary experiences with power, privilege and oppression.
- Promote culturally adaptive interventions and advocacy within and across systems, including prevention, early intervention and recovery.
- Examine the profession’s assumptions and practices within an international context and how this influences self-definition, purpose, role, and function.
- Seek awareness and understanding of how developmental stages and life transitions intersect with the larger bio-sociocultural context and how identity evolved as a function of such intersections.
- Conduct culturally appropriate and informed practice.
- Take a strength-based approach when working with others that seeks to build resilience and decrease trauma within the sociocultural context.
Why is the integration of assessment information often difficult?
Due to the low rate of agreement between informants, but this may reflect real situational variability in children’s behaviour.
What influences informant disagreement?
- The type of behaviour being assessed
2. The measurement technique used across informants (i.e. assessment strategy).
Why should the level of analysis be taken into account when assessing a lack of agreement between informants?
Because individual behaviours show less consistency across informants than broader dimensions of behaviours (e.g. diagnosis).
What factors may influence the report of various informants and should be considered when interpreting discrepant information?
- Marital conflict
- Parental adjustment
- Maternal alcoholism
- Marital difficulties
- Ethnicity
- Different motivation
- Testing conditions
How can the use of heuristics be minimalized?
By using a systematic problem-solving approach.
What to do when the clinician’s feedback to a child may have negative consequences?
(e.g. telling a child that he has difficulty in social interaction may make the child less likely to interact with others)
A person with a positive relationship with the child should deliver the news or the primary clinician should share the results in a counseling session when this is the case.
Wat is the goal of assessment when the referrer is unsure about what can be done to help the child or unsure about the nature of the problems?
To diagnose the source of the problems and make treatment recommendations based on this diagnosis.
A second opinion is valuable, although the disadvantages are:
- It might reinforce the parent’s disagreement with the outcomes
- It might form unrealistic expectations about what the result of evaluation can be
What is the function of aggregation?
Can be used to control error variance and to increase reliability.
