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Assessment in mental health
practice
Type Lecture
Date @September 27, 2022 2:00 PM-3:00 PM
Location TL325a/b
Completed?
Meeting Sessions
Module C8701
Notes
Reading
Chapter 2: Psychopathology (Davey)
2.1 Classifying Psychopathology
The two most influential classification systems are the American Psychiatric
Association (APA), Diagnostic and Statistical Manual and the World Health
Organisation (WHO) International List of Causes of Death (ICD).
Currently, the most widely adopted classification system is DSM-5.
2.2 Methods of Assessment
The clinician needs to be aware of the sources of any cultural bias in these
processes, and should be reflective about their own potential stereotypes of
ethnic minorities and the effect this might have on their clinical judgements.
Test reliability measures whether the test will provide the same result when used
by different clinicians on different occasions.
Assessment in mental health practice 1
, Test validity measures whether an assessment method actually measures what
it claims to measure.
An unstructured clinical interview is probably the first contact a client will have
with a clinician.
Structured interviews can be used to help make decisions about diagnosis and
functioning (e.g. Structured Clinical Interview for DSM (SCID)).
Psychological tests are a highly structured way of gathering information about
the client.
The most well-known personality inventory is the Minnesota Multi-phasic
Personality Inventory (MMPI).
Specific trait inventories are used to measure functioning in one specific area
(e.g. depression).
Projective tests include the Rorschach Inkblot Test, the Thematic Apperception
Test (TAT), and the Sentence Completion Test.
Both IQ tests and tests of general ability, such as the Wechsler Adult Intelligence
Scale (WAIS), are regularly used by clinicians.
Neurological impairment tests are used to measure deficits in cognitive
functioning that may be caused by abnormalities in brain functioning.
Psychophysiological tests can be used to measure emotional responding.
Neuroimaging techniques generate images of the brain that provide information
on any abnormalities in brain functioning.
Important neuroimaging techniques include computerised axial tomography
(CAT), positron emission tomography (PET), magnetic resonance imaging
(MRI), and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI).
Clinical observation techniques can be used to gather objective information
about the frequency of behaviours or the contexts in which behaviours occur.
Because assessment methods have usually been developed on populations
from a single cultural background, they often result in biased assessments when
applied to individuals from a different cultural background.
Lecture Notes
Assessment in mental health practice 2
Assessment in mental health
practice
Type Lecture
Date @September 27, 2022 2:00 PM-3:00 PM
Location TL325a/b
Completed?
Meeting Sessions
Module C8701
Notes
Reading
Chapter 2: Psychopathology (Davey)
2.1 Classifying Psychopathology
The two most influential classification systems are the American Psychiatric
Association (APA), Diagnostic and Statistical Manual and the World Health
Organisation (WHO) International List of Causes of Death (ICD).
Currently, the most widely adopted classification system is DSM-5.
2.2 Methods of Assessment
The clinician needs to be aware of the sources of any cultural bias in these
processes, and should be reflective about their own potential stereotypes of
ethnic minorities and the effect this might have on their clinical judgements.
Test reliability measures whether the test will provide the same result when used
by different clinicians on different occasions.
Assessment in mental health practice 1
, Test validity measures whether an assessment method actually measures what
it claims to measure.
An unstructured clinical interview is probably the first contact a client will have
with a clinician.
Structured interviews can be used to help make decisions about diagnosis and
functioning (e.g. Structured Clinical Interview for DSM (SCID)).
Psychological tests are a highly structured way of gathering information about
the client.
The most well-known personality inventory is the Minnesota Multi-phasic
Personality Inventory (MMPI).
Specific trait inventories are used to measure functioning in one specific area
(e.g. depression).
Projective tests include the Rorschach Inkblot Test, the Thematic Apperception
Test (TAT), and the Sentence Completion Test.
Both IQ tests and tests of general ability, such as the Wechsler Adult Intelligence
Scale (WAIS), are regularly used by clinicians.
Neurological impairment tests are used to measure deficits in cognitive
functioning that may be caused by abnormalities in brain functioning.
Psychophysiological tests can be used to measure emotional responding.
Neuroimaging techniques generate images of the brain that provide information
on any abnormalities in brain functioning.
Important neuroimaging techniques include computerised axial tomography
(CAT), positron emission tomography (PET), magnetic resonance imaging
(MRI), and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI).
Clinical observation techniques can be used to gather objective information
about the frequency of behaviours or the contexts in which behaviours occur.
Because assessment methods have usually been developed on populations
from a single cultural background, they often result in biased assessments when
applied to individuals from a different cultural background.
Lecture Notes
Assessment in mental health practice 2
