random Flashcards
4 basic principles of ethics for psychologists:
- Responsibility
- Integrity
- Respect
- Expertise
Symptom Checklist-90-Revised (SCL-90-R):
Measuring psychopathological symptoms.
Has good psychometric quality
Four-Dimensional Symptom Questionnaire:
Was originally developed for overwork symptoms.
Identify psychosocial problems, determine the severity of the problems, identify depressive and anxiety disorders, recognize somatization, and follow the course of complaints.
Inventory of Interpersonal Situations:
Self-assessment questionnaire for measuring social anxiety and social skills.
Good reliability of subscales, reasonably good validity and criterion validity
Dutch Relationship Questionnaire:
Measuring relationship quality on five scales: independence, emotional unity, identity, conflict management, and sexuality
Utrecht Burnout Scale:
3 scale scores:
- Emotional Exhaustion
- Psychological Distance/Depersonalization
- Competence/Personal Accomplishment
Utrecht Coping List (6 factors measured):
- Actie approach, confrontation
- Avoidance, waiting
- Seeking social support
- Passive response pattern
- Expression of emotions
- Thinking reassuring and comforting thoughts
Coping Inventory for Stressful Situations (CISS-NL):
Based on the theoretical distinction between problem-focused and emotion-focused coping strategies, and additionally measures avoidance-oriented coping strategies
Dutch Eating Behavior Questionnaire (based on 3 theories):
- Psychosomatic theory: emphasizes the role of emotions in excessive weight gain
- Externality theory: attributes overeating to a general sensitivity to external stimuli
- The theory of restrained eating behavior is based on a conflict between appetite and food abstinence such that the diet itself ultimately causes overeating and excess weight
Personality organization (PO):
Neurotic Bipolar Psychotic
Identity integration:
Individual’s ability to perceive himself and the other important people around him in an integrated and emotionally meaningful way.
In order to maintain integration, individuals make use of defense mechanisms
Dutch Short Form of the MMPI (NVM)
5 dimensions: Negativism, Somatization, Shyness, Severe Psychopathology and Extraversion.
Designed to correct heightened sensitivity to mental state, and to diagnose psychiatric disorders.
Suited for assessing more trait-like basic characteristics of pathological personality, making it suitable for use within structural personality diagnostic
Expressed emotion (EE):
A system providing information about the degree of criticism and emotional over-involvement in a family member’s attitude towards a client.
Main use: obtaining insight into the risk of psychotic relapse in a client with schizophrenia (it has a high predictive value)
Five Minute Speech Sample (FMSS):
A client’s family members are asked to talk about their relationship for 5min.; the interviewer is not interfering with the narrative