PSY 370 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Confirmation Bias, Child Abuse, Ethnocentrism
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Clinical assessment: without clinical assessment, the counselor-therapist is . Reduced to being no more (and no less) than a social helper. woody, 1972. Why: clinical assessment = information-gathering and interpretive skills used by the professional counselor-therapist. Counseling psychologists focus on those experiencing normal development problems. Clinical psychologists focus on the mentally ill & those who exhibit abnormal behavior: in practice, this distinction is blurry, clinical psychologists are more likely to assessment as an information gathering tool. Make a diagnosis and facilitate communication about that diagnosis. Identify appropriate treatment: counselors are more likely to assessment as part of therapy. Give client new information about themselves; this new information. Critical clinical evaluations guides change: addiction & substance abuse, forensic assessment. Competency to stand trial or to make major life decisions. Readiness for parole, etc: custody evaluations. Evaluation of parents and child: child abuse and neglect cases. Diagnosis: assessment provides information about symptoms. Or something more informal, depending on you purpose: the dsm-v.
