PSY 280 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Rorschach Test, Thematic Apperception Test, Beck Depression Inventory
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You are a psychologist who is treatment two patients: one with an anxiety disorder and one with a depressive mood disorder. During the course of treatment, you notice that they have similar symptoms in common and in fact, they may be more similar than dissimilar in many different ways. Clinical assessment: process of gathering information about person and their environment, make decisions about nature, status, and treatment of psychological problem. Goals of assessment: screening, trying to quickly identify a problem or future problem, diagnosis, clarify any possible differential diagnosis. Narrow it down to one or a few: treatment plan, outcome evaluation, see if symptoms you"re expecting to be reduced are actually reduced. Age: types of measures, who is involved in the process. Cultural factors: how instrument was normed, where was instrument developed. Ethics: only assessments trained to do, good reliability/validity. Clinical interviews: conversation between interviewer/assessor and patient. Structured, establish diagnosis: scid (structured clinical interview for dsm)
