Psychology 2030A/B Lecture Notes - American Psychiatric Association, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Parietal Lobe

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2030A/B
• Professor: David Vollick

Document Summary

Social (what kind of social support they have) Diagnosis: put all the information together to make a diagnosis: degree of fit between symptoms and diagnostic criteria. Purposes of clinical assessment: to understand the individual (know a lot better the diagnosis is, to predict behaviour (for example suicidal, to plan a treatment, to evaluate treatment outcome (how much better, how long did it take?) Analogous to a funnel (entonnoir): starts broad (friends, family, personality test, intelligence test, multidimensional in approach (we want to know how much we can, narrow to specific problem areas. Reliability if a therapist diagnosis someone as depressive, another therapist should find the same outcome: consistency is measurement. Validity: if i give an intelligence test, i am actually measuring intelligence: what the test measures and how well it does so. E. g. content, concurrent, discriminant (btn one test and another), construct (test construct), and face validity (google it) Oriented x 3= ability to identify person, place and time.