Week 12: Instruments for treatment planning, monitoring and outcome assessments Flashcards
Why are brief instruments used?
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.
What are the measures of non-symptom outcomes?
- Difficulties in emotion regulation scale
- Self-compassion scale
- Self-concept
- Experiential avoidance
- Coping skills
What is the symptom checklist 90-r and brief symptom inventory?
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.
What is somatisation?
Distress related to physical dysfunction.
What is obsessive-compulsive?
Impulses, thoughts, and actions that are persistent, repetitive, unwanted and beyond the person’s control.
What is interpersonal sensitivity?
Discomfort regarding interpersonal relationships, including self-consciousness and feelings of inferiority.
What is depression?
Measures a range of depressive symptoms.
What is anxiety?
Presence of apprehension, nervousness, and dread.
What is hositlity?
Includes resentment, irritability, and aggression.
What is phobic anxiety?
The presence of an excessive and irrational fear towards a person, place, object, or situation.
What is paranoid ideation?
Includes key dimensions of paranoid thought e.g., suspiciousness, grandiosity, hostility, and projection.
What is psychoticism?
Includes withdrawal and isolation, along with core symptoms of schizophrenia.
What are the three global indexes?
- Global severity index
- Positive symptom index
- Positive symptom total
What is the global severity index?
It takes into account the intensity of reported stress and number of reported symptoms, is an indicator of distress.
What is the positive symptom index?
It measures the symptom intensity.
What is the positive symptom total?
It measures the breadth of symptoms.
What is the Beck-Depression Inventory?
It is a 21-item measure of depressive symptoms.
What is the State Trait Anxiety Inventory?
It is a 40-item self-report inventory that is sensitive to temporary experiences of anxiety or those linked to more stable personality factors.
What is high T-anxiety associated with?
A person who perceives a wide number of situations as threatening, and is concerned about being negatively evaluated by others.
What is high S-anxiety associated with?
Feelings of apprehension, worry, nervousness, tension, activation of the autonomic nervous system.
What is high S-anxiety/low T-anxiety associated with?
Anxiety that is likely caused by an external threat or situational stressor.
What is low S-anxiety/high T-anxiety associated with?
A person who is not currently experiencing anxiety, but is prone to reacting to situations whereby they become easily anxious.
What is the outcome rating scale and session rating scale?
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).
