The Roots of Clinical Psychology

Question 1

What are the Diagnosis and Assessment: Beginnings?

Answer 1

1. Assessment of Individual Differences (Galton, Cattell)
   a. Mental testing
2. Classification of Psychopathology (Kraepelin)

Question 2

What are the Diagnosis and Assessment: Advent of the Modern Era?

Answer 2

1. Assessment of Intelligence (Binet, Terman)
2. Personality Testing
3. World War I ability testing (Army Alpha Beta)

Question 3

What are the Diagnosis and Assessment: Interwar Period?

Answer 3

1. Intelligence debate (Spearman, Thorndike, Thurstone) – How to define? Measure? Study?
   Wechsler Intelligence Test – first satisfactory measure of adult intelligence
2. Projective testing: patients respond to ambiguous test stimuli
3. Rorschach Inkblots
4. Thematic Apperception Test
5. Bender-Gestalt Test

Question 4

What are the Diagnosis and Assessment: Post-War and Beyond?

Answer 4

1. MMPI – Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory
2. Radical Behaviorism: only overt behaviors can be measured
3. Diagnostic manuals & structured diagnostic interview
4. Neuropsychological Assessment: An assessment approach—based on empirically established brain–behavior relationships—that evaluates a person’s relative strengths and weaknesses across a number of areas
5. Managed Care
6. Brief, focal assessment