BESC1433 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Improvisation, Neuropsychological Test, Mental Health Professional
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Week 8: types of personality and other assessments. Unstructured interviews: most psychological assessments (with an individual client) begin with an interview, often these are unstructured, although there is evidence that validated structured interviews yield more reliable results* Information about the individual and their relationships: allows the therapist to contextualise the client"s goals and/or problem(s, traditional intake interview. Structured interviews in psychiatry [and psychology] serve to improve diagnostic precision, to provide comparability in studies, and to prevent misdiagnosis. A brief note on semi-structured": sometimes used to signify branching so that not all clients get all questions, sometimes used to mean a list of guide questions the interviewer has licence to extemporise and follow the narrative. In previous versions of structured interviews for dsm, there were missing diagnostic categories. but well-known structured interview instruments have been incrementally updated in line with changes to the dsm and new statistical techniques.
