Lecture 4 Flashcards
(29 cards)
What is assessment in the context of mental health?
The process of gathering information about a person’s symptoms, possible causes, and treatment options.
What is a diagnosis?
A label for a set of symptoms that often occur together, indicating a particular disorder.
Define reliability in psychological measurement.
The consistency of a measurement.
What does a reliable measure provide?
The same result each time it is used.
Define validity in psychological measurement.
A valid measure is one that measures what it is supposed to measure.
What is criterion validity?
Assesses whether test scores are correlated with other tests designed to assess the same dimension.
What is content validity?
Adequately samples a domain of interest.
Provide an example of poor content validity.
A test item asking, ‘How nervous are you?’ without sufficient context.
What is construct validity?
The extent to which scores on a measure relate to other variables or behaviors of the same characteristic.
True or False: Giving someone a diagnosis is always a bad thing.
False.
List some purposes of diagnosis.
- Description and identification
- Research
- Communication
- Etiology
- Prognosis
- Treatment planning
- Resource Allocation
List some criticisms against diagnosis.
- Rigid
- Artificial/arbitrary
- Discrimination
- Too many diagnoses
What was the focus of DSM I (1952)?
Strong Psychoanalytic emphasis and lacked explicit criteria for disorders.
How many diagnostic categories were in DSM-5?
541 diagnostic categories.
What are the components of DSM-5-TR?
- Specific Diagnostic Criteria
- Associated features
- Sociodemographic factors
What classification system does DSM-5-TR primarily use?
Categorical classification.
What is dimensional classification in DSM-5-TR?
Provides severity ratings for most disorders on a continuous scale.
What is the reliability of DSM-5-TR compared to previous editions?
While better, it does not yield perfect reliability.
What is a clinical interview?
A conversation between clinician and patient to determine diagnosis, history, causes of problems, and treatment options.
What are the types of clinical interviews?
- Unstructured
- Structured
- Semi-Structured
What is the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI-3)?
A self-report questionnaire that assesses behavioral and emotional tendencies.
What does the Big Five personality model measure?
Five broad domains of personality.
What is the Rorschach Inkblot Test used for?
To reveal unconscious thoughts and feelings through responses to ambiguous stimuli.
What does an IQ test measure?
A person’s current cognitive ability, standardized against norms.
