PSY 3330 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Dissociative Identity Disorder, Criterion Validity, Psychological Evaluation
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Assessment and diagnosis: definitions, clinical assessment-slide, diagnosis- slide. Advantages: facilitates communication among professionals, gives open communication to the patient so some relief for them for finally knowing what is wrong with them. Informs clinical care: assessment is a process that helps describe the problems the person is having this is done by a variety of techniques such as. The ideal assessment will involve multiple measures and methods to get a very good idea of the problem presented, etiology or treatment. Standardization: consistent use of techniques or doing the exact same thing to make sure we are measuring the same thing. It also provided info about the population data, for example a more common disorder like dp is a more likely diagnosis and not multiple personality disorder: assessments, key concepts. Reliability- the results are consistent no matter when or how we take it like weight: types.
