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Chapter 4 - Exam 2
PSYC 315 psychopathology
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| what is behavior analysis? | an effort to identify as many factors as possible that can be contributing to a child's problem behavior, thoughts, and feelings and to develop hypotheses about which ones are the most important and/or most easily changed. |
| what is behavioral assessment? | the evaluation of the child's thoughts, feelings and behaviors in specific settings. |
| what is best practice guidelines? | systematically developed statements to assist practitioners and patients with decisions regarding appropriate treatments for specific clinical conditions |
| what is categorical classification? | a diagnostic system that is based on informed professional consensus. |
| what is classification? | a system for representing the major categories or dimensions of child psychopathology |
| what are clinical assessments? | a process of differentiating, defining and measuring the behaviors/cognitions/emotions that are of concern as well as environmental circumstances that may be contributing to these problems. |
| what are clinical descriptions? | a summary of unique behaviors, thoughts, and feelings that together make up the features of a given psychological disorder |
| what are cultural compatibility hypothesis? | the hypothesis that treatment is likely to be more effective when compatible with the cultural patterns of the child and family. |
| what are cultural syndromes? | a pattern of co-occurring, relatively invariant symptoms associated with a particular cultural group, community, or context. |
| what is developmental/ family history? | information obtained from the parents about potentially significant historical milestones and events that might have a bearing on the child's current difficulties. |
| what are developmental tests? | test uses to assess infants and young children that are generally carried out for the purposes of screening, diagnosis and evaluation of early development. |
| what is diagnosis? | the identification of a disorder from an examination of the symptoms. |
| what is dimensional classification? | an approach to the diagnosis and classification of child psychopathology that assumes there's a number of independent dimensions or traits of behavior possessed by all children to varying degrees. |
| what is evidence-based treatments (EBTs) | clearly specified treatments shown to be effective in controlled research studies with specific populations. |
| what is functional analysis of behavior? | an effort to identify as many factors as possible that could be contributing to a child's problem behavior, thoughts & feelings and to develop hypotheses about which ones are the most important and/or the most easily changed |
| what is idiographic case formulation? | an approach to case formulation or assessment that emphasizes the detailed representation of the individual child or family as a unique identity |
| what is intervention? | concept that has many different theories & methods with a range of problem-solving strategies directed at helping the child and family adapt more effectively to their current and future circumstances |
| what is maintenance? | efforts to increase adherence to treatment over time in order to prevent a relapse or recurrence of a problem |
| what is multimethod assessment approach? | a clinical assessment that emphasizes the importance of obtaining information from different formats such as different settings and procedures (interviews, observations,etc) |
| what is neuropsychological assessment? | a form of assessment that attempts to link brain functioning with objective measures of behavior known to depend on an intact central nervous system, |
| what is nomothetic formulation? | an approach to case formulation or assessment that emphasizes general principles that apply to all people |
| what is prevention? | activities directed at decreasing the chances that undesired future outcomes will occur. |
| what is prognosis? | prediction of the course or outcome of a disorder. |
| what is projective tests? | a form of assessment that presents the child with an ambiguous stimuli like inkblots or pictures of people. the hypothesis is that the child will "project" their own personality into the ambiguous stimuli. |
| what is screening? | identification of subjects at risk for a specific negative outcome |
| what are semi structured interviews? | interviews that include specific questions designed to elicit information in a relatively consistent manner regardless of who is conducting the interview |
| what are target behaviors? | behaviors that are the primary problems of concern |
| what are tests? | a task or set of tasks given under standard conditions with the purpose of assessing some aspect of the subjects knowledge, skill, personality, or condition |
| what is treatment? | corrective actions that will permit successful adaptation by eliminating or reducing the impact on an undesired outcome that has already occured. |
| what is treatment planning and evaluation? | process of using assessment information to generate a treatment plan and evaluate its effectiveness. |
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