PSYCH 3B03 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Individual Psychological Assessment, Mental Disorder, Play Therapy
9 Nov 2018
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Classification: the delineation of major categories or dimensions of behavioural disorders, don purposes. Diagnosis: assigning a category of a classification system to an individual. Assessment: evaluating youth to assist the processes of classification and diagnosis, and to dir. Classification systems are employed to systematically describe a phenomenon. Describe categories or dimensions of problem behaviours, emotions, and/or cognitions. Category: a discrete grouping into which an individual"s symptoms are judge to fit o. Dimension: implies that an attribute is continuous and can occur to various degree. Clear and explicitly stated for clear communication btwn clinicians. Interrater reliability: whether different diagnosticians use the same category behaviour. Test-retest reliability: whether the use of a category is stable over some reas. To be valid, a diagnosis should provide a person with more information that o have an accurate description of a disorder. Etiology, course of development, response to treatment, etc.
