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| The nature of interviewing |
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-PROCESS, not an ENTITY
-A process of verbal and non-verbal intercourse between a trained professional worker and a client who is seeking services
-In a clinical/diagnostic sense: purposeful exchange of meanings between two persons |
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| The importance of interviewing |
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-Vehicle for giving information
-Means of establishing and sustaining a strong client-clinician relationship
-A tool for data gathering
-A medium of therapy |
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| 7 general topics or areas of inquiry involved in the clinical interview |
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Definition
1. What is the respondent's perception of the problem?
2. When and under what conditions did the communication disorder arise?
3. In what ways has the communication disorder changed since the onset?
4. What are the consequences of the problem?
5. How has the client and family attempted to cope with the problem?
6. What impact has the client's communication disorder had on the rest of the family?
7. What are the client's expectations regarding the diagnostic session? |
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| Things to avoid during the clinical interview |
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1. Avoid excessive "Yes" or "No" questions
2. Avoid phrasing questions in such a way that they inhibit freedom of response
3. Avoid abrupt shifts in topic
4. Avoid talking too much or not enough
5. Avoid concentrating on physical symptoms and etiological factors to the exclusion of the client's feelings and attitudes
6. Avoid providing info too soon
7. Avoid qualifying and hemming and hawing
8. Avoid negativistic or moralistic responses
9. When the client caused the interview to wander, avoid abrupt transitions
10. Avoid allowing the interview to produce only superficial answers
11. Avoid letting the client reveal too much in one interview
12. Avoid trusting too much to memory |
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| The degree to which the test measures the theoretical construct it is intended to measure. Appropriateness. |
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Stability over time and administrations. Consistency.
Intra-rater: con. when same person administers test more than once
Inter-rater: con. when more than one person administers the test |
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3 different types of tests
and their differences |
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Definition
1. Norm-Referenced Tests
2. Criterion-Referenced Tests
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| 5 Steps involved in creating a case history |
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Definition
1. Create the complaint or "reason for referral"
2. Provide basic contact information (age, home makeup, school makeup, primary language, etc.)
3. Detail the family history
4. Describe the symptoms of concern in great detail
5. Include any unusual details about the patient's birth and gestation |
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| Articulation (definition) |
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| Phonemic Inventory (definition) |
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| Phonetic Inventory (definition) |
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| What articulation disorders are characterized by |
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| What phonological disorders are characterized by |
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| Phonological Delay (definition) |
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| Phonological Disorder (definition) |
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| How screening results are interpreted |
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