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Assessing Abnormal
Ch 3
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Mental Status Exam | allows professionals to assess the impact of disorder on client's current well-being |
| What do professionals look for in a Mental Status Exam? | - appearance & behavior (eye contact, motor activity) - thoughts/speech - mood / affect - cognition (memory, attention, orientation) - orientation (place, time, person) |
| Test-retest reliability | how consistent the results of a test are over time |
| Diagnosis | a label for a set of symptoms that often occur together |
| Comorbidity | overlap among disorders, being diagnosed with one disorder that meets the criteria for another |
| Intelligence Tests | used to measure abilities like abstract reasoning, verbal fluency, & spatial memory |
| Validity | the accuracy of a test in assessing what its supposed to measure |
| Who are intelligence tests biased for? | middle/upper class educated European Americans |
| Behavioral Observation | used by clinicians to assess deficits in an individual's skill or way of handling situations |
| Reliability | a test that's consistent in measuring what its supposed to measure |
| Structured Interviews | standardized & uses concrete criteria to score the person's answers |
| Unstructured Interviews | questions directed by clinician based on client's responses |
| Clinical Interviews | face-to-face conversations that gathers information about a client's behavior, attitudes, emotions, life history, & personality |
| Concurrent Validity | extent to which a test yields the same results as other, established measures of the same test |
| What are the major changes in the DSM-5? | - no axial system - rids of diagnosis/combines them - specifies how long symptoms must occur & how dysfunctional |
| Assessment | process of gathering info about an individual's symptoms & possible causes |
| What was the main problem with the earlier editions of the DSM? | - low reliability of diagnoses |
| What is a problem with the continuum perspective of diagnosis in the DSM-5? | earlier DSMs had categorical perspectives as it's easier to think in terms of categories than continuums |
| Thomas Szasz's belief regarding the diagnosis of mental disorders? | - mental disorders don't exist - people who suffer are oppressed by society - mental disorders are alternative ways of behaving & looking at the world |
| CT | an enhanced x-ray procedure |
| EEG | measures electrical activity in the brain |
| Reifying Diagnoses | tendency to see a diagnosis as real & true rather than a set of judgements about how symptoms tend to go together |
| What is an advantage of cultural relativism? | - doesn't impose the standards of one culture on judgements of abnormality |
| Clinicians from what kind of perspectives value projective tests as tools to assess the underlying conflicts of individuals? | Psychodynamic |
| Psychosurgery | a practice only used for severe disorders that don't respond to other treatments |
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