Clinical and Counseling Assessment

Question 1

(1) Infliction of or allowing the infliction of physical injury or emotional impairment that is nonaccidental; (2) the creation of or allowing the creation of substantial risk of physical injury or emotional impairment that is non-accidental; (3) the committing of or allowing the committing of a sexual offense against a child; contrast with neglect

Answer 1

Abuse

Question 2

The consequence of one’s belief that a vague personality description truly describes oneself, when in reality that description may apply to almost anyone; sometimes referred to as the “Aunt Fanny effect,” because the same personality might be applied to anyone’s Aunt Fanny

Answer 2

Barnum effect

Question 3

A type of hypnotic interview without the hypnotic induction; the interviewee is encouraged to use imagery and focused retrieval to recall information

Answer 3

Cognitive interview

Question 4

Understanding the charges against one and being able to assist in one’s own defense

Answer 4

Competence to stand trial

Question 5

A standard of legal insanity in Durham v. United States wherein the defendant was not found culpable for criminal action if his unlawful act was the prod-uct of a mental disease or defect; contrast with ALI standard and M’Naghten standard

Answer 5

Durham standard

Question 6

A legally mandated obligation to advise an endangered third party of their peril that may override patient privilege. Therapists and assessors may have a legal duty to warn when a client expresses intent to hurt a third party in any way, ranging from physical violence to disease transmission

Answer 6

Duty to warn

Question 7

A term sometimes used synonymously with mental suffering, emotional harm, and pain and suffering, to convey psychological damage

Answer 7

Emotional injury

Question 8

The view that an attribution of mental disorder requires both a scientific judgment (from an evolutionary perspective) that there exists a failure of function, and a value judgment (from the perspective of social values) that the failure is harmful to the individual

Answer 8

Evolutionary view of mental disorder

Question 9

The theory and application of psychological evaluation and management in a legal context

Answer 9

Forensic psychological assessment

Question 10

A specialty area of psychology that focuses on understanding the role of psychological variables in the onset, course, treatment, and prevention of illness, disease, and disability

Answer 10

Health psychology

Question 11

An interview conducted after a hypnotic state has been induced in the interviewee, most typically in an effort to enhance concentration, focus, imagery, and recall

Answer 11

Hypnotic interview

Question 12

A tool of assessment in which information is gathered through direct, reciprocal communication

Answer 12

Interview

Question 13

A (since replaced) standard of insanity that hinged on whether an individual knew right from wrong at the time of commission of a crime; also known as the “right or wrong” test of insanity; contrast with the Durham standard and the ALI standard

Answer 13

M’Naghten standard

Question 14

A health care system wherein the products and services provided to patients by a participating network of health care providers are mediated by an administrative agency of the insurer that works to keep costs down by fixing schedules of reimbursement to providers

Answer 14

Managed care

Question 15

A specialized interview and observation used to screen for intellectual, emotional, and neurological deficits by touching on areas such as the interviewee’s appearance, behavior, memory, affect, mood, judgment, personality, thought content, thought processes, and state of consciousness

Answer 15

Mental status examination

Question 16

As in child neglect, failure on the part of an adult responsible for the care of a child to exercise a minimum degree of care in providing the child with food, clothing, shelter, education, medical care, and supervision; contrast with abuse

Answer 16

Neglect

Question 17

A three-part element of the mental status examination consisting of orientation to self (if the interviewee knows who he or she is), place (where the interview is taking place), and time (the date of the interview). Interviewees oriented to person, place, and time, are said to be “oriented 3,” read “oriented times three”

Answer 17

Orientation

Question 18

Usually, the ad-ministration of a group of at least three different types of tests for the purpose of evaluating different spheres of functioning: an intelligence test, a personality test, and a neuropsychological test

Answer 18

Standard battery

Question 19

An interview purposely designed to pressure or stress the interviewee in order to gauge reaction to that stress

Answer 19

Stress interview