CHAPTER 3: CLINICAL ASSESSMENT AND DIAGNOSIS Flashcards
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It is a systematic approach to EVALUATE AND MEASURE psychological disorders
Clinical assessment
It is the process of determing disorder using the diagnostic criteria of DSM-5
Diagnosis
Two ways to assess psychological disorders
Clinical assessment
Diagnosis
What are the three basic concepts to determine the value of clinical assessment
Validity, reliability and standardization
It is degree of which the measurement is consistent
reliability
It is degree of which the measurement is design to measure
Validity
It is the application of certain standards to ensure CONSISTENCY accross different measurement
Standardization
What are the 6 strategies for clinical assessment?
Clinical interview, MSE, Semistructured Clinical Interview, Physical Examination, Behavioral assessment and Observational assessment
It is the CORE of most clinical work
Clinical interview
It is the systematic observation of behavior
MSE
It is two or more raters with the same results
Interrater reliability
It is two tests with the same result which the briefer one is selected
concurrent validity
It is what will happen to future
predictive validity
How many categories are there in MSE?
5 categories
A category which observed overt behavior, attire, appearance, posture and expressions
Appearance and behavior
A category which observed rate of speech, continuity of speech and content of speech
Thought process
A category which observed predominant feeling state if the individual, feeling state accompanying individual says
Mood and affect
A category which observed type of vocabulary, use of abstractions and metaphors
Intellectual functioning
A category which observed awareness of surroundings
“oriented times three”
Sensorium
It is the privileged communication
Confidentiality
It is the assessment which has the DIRECT observation to formally assess the patients
Behavioral assessment
It is assessment which is alternative to arrange the SIMILAR LIFE SITUATION used by the analyst
Analogue assessment
Assessment used to observe the ABC
Observational assessment
It is the overactive thyroid gland
hyperthyroidism