Psychology 2320A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Experimental Psychology, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Operant Conditioning

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2320A/B
• Professor: Graham Reid

Document Summary

Advantages of iii et seq, over dsm ii: clearer and more informative, more reliable. Assessment in child clinical psychology: symptoms and behavior problems: structured clinical interviews (gold standard for diagnosis and research, questionnaires: self (depending on age of child), parent and teacher report, behavioral assessments and observations. Questionairre measures not formally used for diagnosis; widely used in research and practise to get info on child symptoms: achenbach family of measures (cbcl preschool version, trf preschool and school age, ysr (school age) and adult versions. Psychotherapy outcome research: sampling issues: sample homogeneity (participants screened for other diagnosis, age, language, intellectual ability etc to form a homogeneous group. Like any iv, constructs and definitions must be operationalized: to do this, treatment studies develop a treatment manual (overview of principles of therapy, session by session guidelines) Psychotherapy outcome research: acceptability and attrition: acceptability= how tolerable a treatment/therapy is t be a patient.