chap 3

• Psychological assessment


  Process of evaluating psychological, social, and emotional functioning through a variety of clinical methods
• Assessment


  It is the process of evaluating psychological, social, and emotional functioning through a variety of clinical methods
• Syndrome


  A cluster of symptoms
• Diagnosis


  When a cluster of syndrome go together in a specific pattern
• Validity


  The accuracy of a test in assessing of what it is supposed to measure
• Concurrent / Convergent validity


  This type of validity test yields the same results as other measures of the same behavior, thoughts, or feelings
• Face validity


  On face value, this validity test appears to measure what it's supposed to measure
• Content validity


  This validity test measures all important aspects of a phenomenon
• Predictive validity


  In this validity test, the instrument used for assessment like survey can predict future behavior
• Construct validity


  This validity test measures what it's supposed to measure and not something else together
• Reliability


  Consistency in measuring what is supposed to measure
• Test-retest reliability


  This reliability test describes how consistent the results are over time
• Alternate form reliability


  In this type of reliability test, two versions of the same test produce similar results
• Internal reliability


  This type of reliability test, different parts of the same test produce similar results
• Interrater or interjudge reliability


  In this type of reliability test, two or more raters or judges who administer and score a test comes to a similar conclusion
• Standardization


  The process of standardizing the administration and interpretation of a test
• Clinical interview


  An interview to gather information about the client's behavior, attitudes, emotions, life history, and personality
• Mental status exam


  An exam used to evaluate and organize data collected during the clinical interview, assess mental functioning, and analyze what is in need of focus or what type of psychological dysfunction the client has
• Sensorium


  The client's general awareness to their surrounding and their orientation to time, person, and place
• Structured interview


  A type of interview whereas clinicians asked structured or standardize questions about symptoms and use concrete criteria to score responses
• Unstructured interview


  A type of interview whereas clinicians asked open-ended questions and directed by clinician-based on the client's response
• Semi-structured interview


  A type of interview that is a combination of standardize with open-ended questions that allow clinicians to follow up more specific questions to gather more personalized information
• Symptom questionnaire


  A quick assessment tool that a clinician might ask the client to do
• Beck's Depression Inventory (BDI-II)


  The most widely used self-report symptom questionnaire
• Personality inventories


  Questionnaires designed to assess people's typical ways of thinking, feeling, and behaving
• Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)


  The most widely used Personality Inventory
• Starke Hathaway & Charnley McKinley


  Developers of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)
• Lie scale


  Measures the respondents' tendency to respond to items in a socially desirable way in order to appear good
• Behavioral observation


  Used to assess deficits in client's skills or their ways of handling situations
• Direct-behavioral observation


  Behavioral observation that does not rely on self-monitoring or self-report
• Patient reported outcome measures (PROM)


  Used for the self-monitoring of moods
• Intelligence test


  A test used to determine individual's level of cognitive functioning, and consist of series of tasks that involves both verbal and nonverbal skills
• Intelligence quotient (IQ)


  A method of comparing an individual's score on an intelligence test to the average
• Culture-fair test


  A test that includes items that are equally applicable to all groups or that of different culture
• Neuropsychological test


  A test useful in detecting specific cognitive deficits such as memory problem
• Bender-Gestalt test


  A neuropsychological test that assesses sensorimotor skills by having the patients' to draw
• Halsted - Reitan test


  A neuropsychological test that evaluates a wide range of nervous system and brain functions, including visual, auditory, and tactual input; verbal communication; spatial and sequential perception
• Luria - Nebraska test


  A neuropsychological evaluation battery developed to uncover the presence of cognitive impairments and to locate focal brain abnormalities that may account for these impairments in individuals 15 years of age and older
• Brain imaging techniques


  Techniques used to determine if a brain has an injury or tumor or to search for the differences in the structure of normal and not normal brain
• Computerized tomography (CT)


  A brain imaging technique that uses X-ray beams to constructs an image of a slice of the brain