PSYC 235 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Reference Group, Schizophrenia, Solitude
23 Jan 2019
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Clinical psychology assessment: structured/standardized assessment, clinical interviews, case conceptualization, summary of a person, make the most likely diagnosis, treatment planning. Interpretation of cognitive test performance: normative approach- focus on comparing an individual to a reference group and making interpretations based on this comparison. Idiographic approach- focus is on comparing an individual to their own pre-morbid (illness) ability level and examining cognitive decline: when change is not relative to a general population, but there has been a change. If there is more neural effort going into tasks, makes it harder as the tests progress: not necessarily how you do on a test but the process and functioning behind it. Depression: helpful overtime to track treatment progress for individuals and groups. Basics: neurodevelopmental in nature, changes of brain structure in early life leading to behaviour changes later on, psychosis starts in adolescence/early adulthood, distortions of reality (disconnecting, perceptual, cognitive, emotional disconnection, disorganized thinking.
