QUIZ #4 CH 9&11 Flashcards
Clinical psychologists have many tasks in integrating data obtained during an assessment. What is an example at the simplest account?
-A simple account might involve the consideration of the clients personality structure, level of emotional distress, coping resources, and/or intellectual capacity.
What understanding does psychological assessment require?
-The understanding of his or her social and interpersonal environment.
What is an important aspect of assessments conducted to determine a person’s suitability to return to work or a parents fitness to have primary physical custody of a child?
The examination of the impact of diagnostic status on global psychosocial functioning.
How does the data fit that is obtained in psychological assessments?
No smoothly or neatly.
-Rare to see one piece of information perfectly conform to a related piece of information.
What does each source of data have that must be taken into account when integrating the data and drawing conclusions?
- Strengths
- Limitations
- Potential Biases
What do assessments of children and adolescents typically require?
-That in addition to the information gathered from the children and adolescents that information must also be collected from significant others such as parents, and teachers.
What is case formulation?
a description of the patient that provides information on his or her life situation, current problems,
and a set of hypotheses linking psychosocial factors with the patient’s clinical condition
?What is often the purpose of assessment?
-To provide directions for possible alleviation or remediation of problems.
What is a major challenge in case formulations?
-The psychologist must accurately detect patterns in wealth of data gathered during an assessment, including patterns that may be primarily attributable to cultural factors.
Across both psychodynamic and cognitive behavioural orientations, what did the expert case formulations tend to focus on?
symptoms and problems, adult relationship history, and an explanation for the development and maintenance of the symptoms and problems.
What are interpersonally oriented psychodynamic case formulations likely to focus on?
-Dysfunctional relationship styles called Cyclical maladaptive Patterns, as the premise for the formulations.
What are process-experiential formulations likely to use?
-Information about the client emotional processing and insight into emotional issues in developing the main premise.
What did Plous and Zimbardo find?
In formulating hypotheses about the development of psychological symptoms, Psychoanalysts emphasized dispositional and personality factors, Whereas behaviour therapists focused on either situational influences or the interaction of situational and dispositional influences.
What is the growing evidence on case formulations?
There is growing evidence that, regardless of orientation, some basic training in developing case formulations can greatly enhance the quality of clinicians formulations.
What has Jacqueline Persons devoted her efforts to?
- Developing an approach to case formulation that clinical psychologists can easily learn and use.
- Her cognitive behavioural case formulation approach emphasizes the importance of identifying the patients overt problems. (Such as psychological symptoms, interpersonal conflicts, or legal problems), and long standing beliefs called “schemas” that when activated by life events, are believed to cause the overt problems.
