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Week 6: Adult assessment Flashcards

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What is a referral question?

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  • whether the client is suffering from a mental disorder
  • the likely cause of the problem
  • client’s current level of psychological functioning
  • appropriate treatment
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Why is it important to clarify a referral question?

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  • needed to frame the approach
  • needed to figure out assessment
  • will affect result interpretation
  • will affect recommendations
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What are the three sources of treatment evidence when finding out appropriate treatment for a client from a referral question?

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  • evidence base
  • what the client would find helpful
  • clinical expertise
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What should you consider when clarifying the referral question

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  • is the client referred by another professional?
  • has the client self referred?
  • is the question too broad?
  • are the expectations realistic
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What is a clinical interview?

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Asking the client a series of questions (closed and open) related to them and the referral question

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Describe a closed question

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Only has concrete answers - yes/no, date of birth

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Describe an open question

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‘tell me about that’ - has an unrestricted number of answers

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Why is the clinical interview good?

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  • allows the psychologist to establish rapport
  • provide important information
  • determine if the client understands what is happening to them
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What kind of information can a psychologist convey during the clinical interview?

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  • the purpose and nature of psych assessment
  • what the client or patient is expected to do
  • confidentiality of information collected during assessment
  • need for informed consent
  • who will have access to the information and how it will be used
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What kind of information is collected during history taking?

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  • demographic data
  • medical history (self and family)
  • family history
  • educational and vocational history
  • psychological history
  • forensic history (depending on the client)
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List the four factors in case formulation

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  • predisposing
  • precipitating
  • perpetuating
  • protective
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Describe predisposing factors

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  • set up vulnerability for the client
  • could be innate, genetic, family history etc
  • generally early life problems like interaction with parents
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Describe precipitating factors

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  • what triggered the problem for the client?
  • bullied in primary school?
  • when did they first start recognising the feelings
  • could be a rough week of work
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Describe perpetuating factors

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  • what keeps the problem going/in a loop?

- ways of thinking about the problem/avoidance strategies

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Describe protective factors

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  • the clients strengths

- e.g. intelligence, motivation, personality factors

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List three rapport tips

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  • be comfortable with silence and let people turnover things
  • be enthusiastic and empathic, but not to the point that it seems overdone
  • be confident and positive in the approaches you’re using
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What is a mental status exam?

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A comprehensive set of questions and observations used by a psychologist to systematically assess the mental state of a client

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List the parts of a mental status exam

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  • appearance
  • behaviour
  • orientation
  • memory
  • sensorium
  • affect
  • mood
  • though content and process
  • intellectual resources
  • insight
  • judgement
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Describe appearance

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How are they dressed? Is it appropriate for the climate? Are they malodorous?

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Describe behaviour

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Are they polite or respectful? Extroverted, disinhibited? Downcast, crying?

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Describe orientation

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Does the client know what time it is? Do they know when their birthday is? Are they lucid?

22
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Describe memory

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Does the client show any problems with immediate, recent or remote memory?

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Describe sensorium

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Is the client able to attend and concentrate?

24
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Describe affect

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Does the client display a range of emotions?

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Describe mood

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What is the general mood displayed by the emotion

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Describe thought content and process

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What does the client want to focus on during the interview? Are they able to clearly explain ideas?

27
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Thought content

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What are they thinking about; what are they speaking about

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Thought form

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Styles of thinking; tangentiality

29
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Describe intellectual resources

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e.g. does the client have good verbal ability?

30
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Describe insight

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Is the client aware that there is a problem and do they know what is causing it?

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Judgment

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Does the client have the ability to make their own decisions? Can they make plans and solve problems?

32
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List some common psychological tests

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  • Weschler Adult Intelligence Scale
  • Minnesota multiphasic personality inventory
  • personality assessment inventory
  • beck depression inventory
  • depression anxiety stress scale
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Describe the Personality Assessment Inventory

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  • 344 self report relating to clinical diagnosis, treatment and psychopathology in 18+
  • false, slightly true, mainly true, very true
34
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Describe the Millon adolescent clinical inventory

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  • focused on adolescents
  • 160 item self report
  • 13-19 years
35
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Describe the BDI

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  • 18-30 years to assess depression
36
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Describe the BAI

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  • 21 item self report for presence and extent of anxiety in adults and adolescents
  • asked to indicate how much they have been bothered by symptoms during the last week
  • 4 point scale
37
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Describe the DASS

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  • 42 item self report scale for depression, anxiety and stress for 17+
38
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What is the DSM?

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A mental health diagnostic system that allows clinicians to have a common understanding of mental health conditions

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Describe how the DSM is used for organisation

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  • clinicians need a clear guide to make clear and effective decisions
  • they require a guide that is updated regularly and consistent with current research and social expectations
40
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Why is the DSM useful?

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  • gives clinicians a clear guide
  • helps treatment planning
  • helps statistical and reporting requirements for resourcing mental health services
41
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Describe the ICD classification system

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  • is used for disorders more widely

- has ICD codes for the same things as the DSM but helps with doctors communicating diagnoses

42
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What is in section 1 of the DSM?

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  • how the DSM5 was developed

- philosophy of DSM5

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What is in section 2 of the DSM?

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  • all the clinical disorders including diagnostic criteria, features, prevalence, development, course and prognosis, culture and gender issues, diagnostic markers, differential diagnosis
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What is in section 3 of the DSM?

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  • emerging measures and models
  • assessment measures
  • cultural formulation
  • a proposed alternative model of personality disorders
45
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Common intelligence test

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WAIS

46
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Common personality test

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MMPI

47
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Common psychopathological tests

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Personality assessment inventory, Millón adolescent clinical inventory

48
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Common depression scales

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Beck depression inventory, beck anxiety inventory, depression anxiety stress scale

49
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When is a DSM diagnosis useful?

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When it leads to a treatment or management plan that can assist the individual, their family or the community

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