PSY 30312 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Specific Developmental Disorder, Block Design, Language Development
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Clinical assessment: clinical assessments: use systematic problem-solving strategies to understand children with disturbances in their family and school environments. Designed to result in effective intervention plans with the ultimate goal of creating a treatment plan. Some result in legal obligations example= a school may be required to provide a special service to a child as part of this treatment. Clinical assessments are meaningful to the extent that they result in practical and effective. Interventions: unlike research, clinical assessment is idiographic (vs nomothetic) Nomothetic: broad, group based general inference generalizations. Clear knowledge of research (nomothetic aspect) informs good idiography. Example: what is the most common symptom of depression in 5 year olds: primary questions of clinical assessment: Behavior can be typical in one stage but not in another. Impairment sometimes not as strong as a criteria in children than in adults because kids are not usually bothered by their own behavior.
