PS381 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Headache, Attribution Bias, Impression Management
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All assessments are conducted to address a question. The psychologist refers to the questions that prompted the assessment as guide in the process of drawing together the various pieces of info available about the client. Clinical psychologists has many tasks in integrating data obtained during an assessment. Simplest level integration requires providing a descriptive account of the clients present psychological functioning. Depending on nature of assessment, simple account might involve consideration of the clients personality structure, level of emotional distress, coping resources, and/or intellectual capacity. Classification system like dsm-5 used to diagnose. Psychological assessment requires an understanding of the person in his or her social and interpersonal environment. Important for psychologist to gather data using different methods. For young kids it is important to gather info from parents, teacher ect. Combining info from multiple psychological tasks or scales can be daunting.
