PSYC 3082 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Inter-Rater Reliability, Panic Attack, Tantrum
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Assessing psychological disorders: purposes of clinical assessment. To evaluate treatment outcome: analogous to a funnel. Assessment means systematic evaluation and measurement of psychological, biological, and socio-cultural factors to help understand abnormal behavior. The process of diagonsis is determining if a person meets criteria for a mental disorder. Doing an assessment would lead to a diagnosis, but there are more purposes of a clinical assessment. A systematic assessment should help us understand the individual that we are assessing. It should also help predict future behavior and plan treatment, and if the assessment is systematic, it will assist us in evaluating treatment effectiveness/noneffectiveness (see how the person looks after a while) Depending on answer, they will become more narrow and focus in on areas of concern. Examples include test-retest and inter-rater reliability: validity. What an assessment approach measures and how well it does so. Examples include concurrent, discriminant, and predictive validity: standardization.
