PSYC 4P72 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Psychopathology, Psychopathy, Comorbidity
27 Jan 2017
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Judgements tend to be based on intuition, experience and common sense. Definitions: violent risk assessment: 2 separate task in terms of making assessments about the probability of risk. Actuarial tend to be based on statistical relationships, tend to select best and most informative predictors, rely on the post powerful predictors first, then consider additional items if they increase or improve our predictions. Clinical, tend to select which variables based on intuition, experience or common sense. Combine risk factors to predict risk level. Clinical - weight placed on each factor depends on clinician; decision on importance of factor depends on their judgement. Clinicians perform many tasks : description of personality and psychopathology, diagnosis, case formulation - causes of symptoms and behaviours, treatment decisions, prediction of behaviour. Friday, january 27, 2017: inter-rater reliability acceptable level, some degree of agreement; probably due to their reliance on the.
