PSYC 3406 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Deinstitutionalisation, Biopsychosocial Model, Inter-Rater Reliability

• School: Northeastern University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3406
• Professor: Ann Blumer

Document Summary

Added greatly to the clinical understanding and treatment of abnormality: weaknesses. A growing number of clinicians favor explanations of abnormal behavior that consider more than one cause at a time: biopsychosocial theories. Diathesis-stress model: diathesis=predisposition (often bio, person must rst have a predisposition, then with suf cient life stressors, may develop the disorder. Date: 1/11/16: common risk factors: abuse and neglect as a child, lack of good social support, doing poorly in school, low self-esteem & repeated traumas. Eclectic approach: taking strengths from various modes of psychotherapy and combining them together. Procedure in which a clinician gathers info about a client, evaluating the client"s psychological functioning: includes looking at personality, cognitive and psychosocial functioning. The speci c tools used in an assessment depend on: clinician"s theoretical orientation, why the client has been referred. Hundreds of clinical assessment tools have been developed: clinical interviews (includes observations of client, client test, example: child is referred because of poor school performance.