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Clinical Exam 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Assessment interview | One of the most basic techniques employed by the clinical psychologist for the purpose of answering a referral question. If administered skillfully, the assessment interview can provide insight into the problem and inform clinical decision making. |
| case history interview | An interview conducted for the purpose of gaining a thorough understanding of the patient's back ground and the historical/developmental context in which a problem emerged. |
| Clinical assessment | an approach to assessment that involves an evaluation of an individual's stengths and weakness, a conceptualization of the problem at hand and the generation of recommendations for alleviating the problem. |
| concurrent validity | a form of criterion-related validity. The extent to which interview scores correlate with scores on other relevant measures administered at the same time. |
| construct validity | the extent to which interview scores correlate with other measures or behaviors in a logical and theoretically consistent way. To be construct valid, an interview must demonstrate all of the aspects of validity. |
| content validity | the degree to which interview items adequately measure all aspects of the construct being measured. |
| crisis interview | an interview conducted fro the purposes of 1. defusing or problem solving throught the crisis at hand 2. encouraging the individual to enter into a therapeutic relationship at the agency or elsewhere so that a longer term solution can be worked out. |
| criterion related validity | the extent to which interview scores predict(correlate with) scores on other relevant measures. |
| diagnostic interview | an interview conducted for the purpose of arriving at a DSm-IV diagnostic formulation. |
| discriminant validity | the extent to which interview scores do not correlate with measures that are not theoretically related to the construct being measured. |
| intake-admission interview | an interview conducted for the purposed of 1. determining why the patient has come to an agency,2. determining whether the agency can meet the patient's needs and expectations, and 3. informing the patient about the agency's policies and procedures. |
| interrater reliability | the level of agreement between at least two raters who have evluated the same patient independently. agreement can refer to consensus on symptoms assigned, diagnoses assigned and so on. |
| mental status examination interview | an interview conducted to evaluate the patient for the presence of cognitive, emotional or behavioral problems. assesses patient in general presentation, quality of speech, thought content, memory and judgment. |
| predictive validity | a form of criterion-related validity. The extent to which interview scores correlate with scores on other relevant measures administered at some point in the future. |
| rapport | a word often used to characterize the relationship between patient and clinician. in the context of the clinical interview, building good rapport involves establishing a comfortable atmosphere and sharing an understanding of the purpose of the interview. |
| structured diagnostic interview | a diagnostic interview that consists of a standard set of questions asked in a specified sequence. the questions may be keyed to the diagnostic criteria for a number of disorders. |
| unstructured interview | an interview in which the clinician asks any questions that come to mind in any order. |
| Axis 1 | all clinical disorders that are present, except for the personality disorders and mental retardation. |
| Axis 2 | personality disorders and mental retardation |
| Axis 3 | current medical conditions that may be relevant |
| Axis 4 | any psychosocial or environmental problems relevant to diagnosis, treatment or prognosis |
| Axis 5 | numerical index of patient's overall level of functioning. |
| 3 major definitons of abnormal behavior | nonconformity to norms subject distress diability or dysfunction |
| mental disorder | a syndrome occuring withing an individual that is associated with distress, diability or increased risk of problems. |
| mental illness | a large class of frequently observed syndromes that comprise certain abnormal behaviors or features. |
| Scientist-practitioner model | 1949-model “married” in Boulder, CO; Scientific Research + Clinical Practice; Result=clinician can practice with skill and sensitivity but also contribute to the body of clinical knowledge; As of today-most popular training model |
| Clinical Scientist Model |
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