PSY 338 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Personality Test, Eval, Intellectual Disability

• School: Stony Brook University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 338
• Professor: Daniel O

Document Summary

Begins w/ clinical assessment, collaborative process of systematic problem-solving strats to understand children and their family and school env: flexible, ongoing hypothesis testing tht assesses. Idiographic case formulation assessments focus on obtaining detailed understanding of the child or family as a unique entity: more individualized. Nomothetic formulation emphasizes general inferences that apply to large groups of individuals: more generalized. Age, gender, culture must be considered when making judgments about abnormality and when selecting assessment and treatment methods: gender. Relational aggression = one of the biggest predictors of psychopathology in fm. Fm tht display physically aggressive behav more than boys more likely to show various psychopathology later. Boys that display relational agressional more than physical aggression more likely to show various psychopathology later: ethnic minority youth are often misdiagnosed, cultural info is necessary to. Motivate fam members to change obtain valid info. Develop meaningful treatment recommendations: culture-bound syndromes recurrent patts of maladaptive behavs assoc w/ diff cultures/localities.