PSYCO335 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Beck Depression Inventory, Psychomotor Agitation, Major Depressive Disorder
9 Feb 2017
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For a speci c problem such as cognitive impairment. No speci c problem requiring comprehensive or formal assessment. In the text it combines assessment with diagnosis. You can"t have diagnosis without assessment, but you can have assessment without providing a diagnosis. Assumption that more information will be collected along the way. What the client presents as their main concern. May give client pencil and paper questionnaires to complete between sessions. Diminished ability to think or concentrate, or indecisiveness, Recurrent thoughts of death, suicidal ideation or plan. Just because a new approach is developed, it doesn"t mean the others were wrong. Least amount of conceptual or theoretical integration: common factors approach to integration. Identify and employ the e ective ingredients in common: theoretical integration. Synthesizing aspects of varied personality theories, combining models of psychopathology and integrating various mechanisms of psychological change. Derivative of both theoretical integration and technical eclecticism.
