Psychology 2042A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Evil Eye, Clinical Formulation, Relational Aggression

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2042A/B
• Professor: Jeff St.Pierre

Document Summary

Clinical assessments: use systematic problem-solving strategies to understand children with disturbances and their family and school environments. Strategies typically include an assessment of the child"s emotional, behavioral, environmental factors, and cognitive functioning. Clinical assessments are meaningful to the extent that they result in practical and effective interventions. A close and continuing partnership between assessment and intervention is vital; they should not be viewed as separate processes. Idiographic case formulation: the focus of clinical assessment is to obtain a detailed understanding of the individual child as a unique entity. (ex. trying to assess the child without the need of categorical disorders) Nomothetic formulation: emphasizes broad inferences that apply to large groups of individuals (ex. kids with a depressive disorder) Likely to result in better hypotheses to test at the idiographic level. In assessing children and families, one needs to be sensitive to the kid"s age, gender, cultural background.