Psychology 2030A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Chartered Management Institute, Biofeedback, Dsm-5

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

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Goals of assessment: differential diagnosis is a process in which a clinician weighs how likely it is that a person has a diagnosis instead of another, what assessment procedures and instruments to administer, tailoring an assessment to types of symptoms, age, and medical status, screening (identify psychological problems or predict the risk for future problems, diagnosis (identification of illness, treatment plan (individual"s plan of care to meet mental health needs, outcome evaluation (to predict where the patient will be in about a month) 130 if both are in the same age group than you can say one is smarter than the other but if 2 different age groups are compared that"s not really a proper comparison: self referent comparison, reliability: consistency across time and across people, test retest reliability (you should score the same if you take the same test twice, interrater agreement (ex.