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| Behavioral Avoidance Test |
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| Often used to assess phobias and avoidance behavior by asking a patient to approach a feared situation as closely as possible. |
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| A series of steps designed to gather information about a person and their environment in order to make decisions about the nature, status, and treatment of psychological problems. |
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| An attempt to determine which diagnosis most clearly describes the patient's symptoms using different assessment instruments. |
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| The observed reduction of symptoms is actually a meaningful improvement. Often measured using the Reliable Change Index. |
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| Comparison that requires comparing a person's assessment score with the scores of a sample of people who are representative of the entire population or with the scores of a subgroup who are similar to the patient being assessed. |
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| How well the measure produces the same results each time it is used |
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| An assessment of reliability that addresses the consistancy of scores across time |
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| refers to the degree in which a test measures what it was intended to measure |
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| The clinician decides what questions to ask and how to ask them, typical of initial interviews |
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| Consist of a conversation between a clinician and a patient, the purpose of which is to gather information and make judgements related to the assessment goals |
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| the clinician asks each patient the same standard set of questions, usually with the goal of establishing a disgnosis |
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| measures personality characteristics |
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| A type of personality testing that emerged from psychoanalytic theory. The Rorschach Inkblot Test and the Thematic Apperception Test are the two most widely used projective tests. |
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| IQ scores generally predict academic performance in traditional learning environments. Standardized so that the mean in 100 and the standard deviation is 15. |
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| A process in which a patient observes and records his or her own behavior as it happens. |
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| Someone other than the patient monitors the frequency, duration, and nature of behavior as it occurs |
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| Psychophysiological Assessment |
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| Measures brain structure, brain function, and nervous system activity to detect physiological changes in the nervous system that reflect emotional or psychological events. |
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| International Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD) |
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| An alternative to the DSM classification system ublished by the World Health Organization (WHO), uses a code-based classification system for physical diseases and a broad array of psychological symptoms and syndromes. |
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