psych2260 CH III & IV
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- DSM-IV
- diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders-IV (fourth revision) APA's continuing attempt to properly and "stringently" classify all known mental disorders by categorizing each and listing corresponding symptoms/syndromes
- DSM-IV AXIS I
- list of all mental diseasesother than in the other axis
- DSM-IV AXIS II
- special for mental retardation & personality disorders
- DSM-IV AXIS III
- general medical condition (physiological-all problems, if any)
- DSM-IV AXIS IV
- psychosocial & environmental problems
- DSM-IV AXIS V
- global assessment of functioning scale GAF scale)
- MMPI-Minnisota Multiphasic Personality Inventory
- consist of self-report questionnaire with questions assessing havitual tendencies that may or may not apply to client "multiphasic" means that it is designed to detect a number of psychological program
- projective personality tests (PPT)
- set of standard stimuli (inkblots, drawings, etc) ambiguous to allow variations in responses by the clients
- projective hypothesis
- since means are unstructured, patient's responses will come from unconscious processes, revealing his/her attitudes, motivations and modes of behavior
- Rorschach inkblot test
- prompts patients to react verbally by dislosing certain personality traits and/or psychopathology parinoia
- thematic apperception test
- another projective test in lieu of or in addition to the rorschach
- intellegence tests
- two major types, both used to assest current and predict future mental abilities
- stanford/binet intellegence test
- (binet was originator) referred to as "aptitude test" standardized to assess a persons's current mental ability
- WAIS-wechsler adult intelligence scale
- (also a childrens version) similar to standford/binet but more adaptable to various specificities
- behavioral observation
- ovserving patient's behavior (often unobtrusively) in various- usually natural- settings to assess his/her psychological make-up
- cognitive assessment
- consists usually of self-report questionnaires that assess a wide range of cognitive areas (fear, irrationality, negitive inferences, etc) will give cognative-behavioral clinician the background to start a therapy that can concentrate on the psychopathology discovered
- CT scan
- computerized axial tomography helps assess structural brain abnormalities
- MRI
- magnetic resonance imaging superior to CT scan by providing higher quality pictures and does not use radiation
- Neuropsychological assessment
- using the CT, PET scans, MRI's, metabolite analysis, these are the clinicians and the other special measures/tests they use
- neurologist
- physician specializing in medical diseases that affect the nervous system and the brain
- neuropsychologist
- studies how dysfunctions of the brain affect the way one thinks, feels and behaves
- correlation
- measures how closely two variables are relatied (positive- both variables go up) CORRELATION IS NOT CAUSE ANS EFFECT!