Week 12: Instruments for treatment planning, monitoring and outcome assessments

Question 1

Why are brief instruments used?

Answer 1

It is linked to EBP and the need to demonstrate that treatment is working. It also helps to identify clients for whom a different approach may be needed. It is also less time-consuming and resource dependent.

Question 2

What are the measures of non-symptom outcomes?

Answer 2

1. Difficulties in emotion regulation scale
2. Self-compassion scale
3. Self-concept
4. Experiential avoidance
5. Coping skills

Question 3

What is the symptom checklist 90-r and brief symptom inventory?

Answer 3

It is a tool that assesses the type and severity of symptoms experienced over a one-week period, covering nine dimensions and three global indexes.

Question 4

What is somatisation?

Answer 4

Distress related to physical dysfunction.

Question 5

What is obsessive-compulsive?

Answer 5

Impulses, thoughts, and actions that are persistent, repetitive, unwanted and beyond the person’s control.

Question 6

What is interpersonal sensitivity?

Answer 6

Discomfort regarding interpersonal relationships, including self-consciousness and feelings of inferiority.

Question 7

What is depression?

Answer 7

Measures a range of depressive symptoms.

Question 8

What is anxiety?

Answer 8

Presence of apprehension, nervousness, and dread.

Question 9

What is hositlity?

Answer 9

Includes resentment, irritability, and aggression.

Question 10

What is phobic anxiety?

Answer 10

The presence of an excessive and irrational fear towards a person, place, object, or situation.

Question 11

What is paranoid ideation?

Answer 11

Includes key dimensions of paranoid thought e.g., suspiciousness, grandiosity, hostility, and projection.

Question 12

What is psychoticism?

Answer 12

Includes withdrawal and isolation, along with core symptoms of schizophrenia.

Question 13

What are the three global indexes?

Answer 13

1. Global severity index
2. Positive symptom index
3. Positive symptom total

Question 14

What is the global severity index?

Answer 14

It takes into account the intensity of reported stress and number of reported symptoms, is an indicator of distress.

Question 15

What is the positive symptom index?

Answer 15

It measures the symptom intensity.

Question 16

What is the positive symptom total?

Answer 16

It measures the breadth of symptoms.

Question 17

What is the Beck-Depression Inventory?

Answer 17

It is a 21-item measure of depressive symptoms.

Question 18

What is the State Trait Anxiety Inventory?

Answer 18

It is a 40-item self-report inventory that is sensitive to temporary experiences of anxiety or those linked to more stable personality factors.

Question 19

What is high T-anxiety associated with?

Answer 19

A person who perceives a wide number of situations as threatening, and is concerned about being negatively evaluated by others.

Question 20

What is high S-anxiety associated with?

Answer 20

Feelings of apprehension, worry, nervousness, tension, activation of the autonomic nervous system.

Question 21

What is high S-anxiety/low T-anxiety associated with?

Answer 21

Anxiety that is likely caused by an external threat or situational stressor.

Question 22

What is low S-anxiety/high T-anxiety associated with?

Answer 22

A person who is not currently experiencing anxiety, but is prone to reacting to situations whereby they become easily anxious.

Question 23

What is the outcome rating scale and session rating scale?

Answer 23

They are ultra-brief measures used in session with clients to monitor progress in terms of functional improvement and the degree to which sessions are meeting the client’s needs (therapeutic relationship).