PSY341H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Criterion Validity, Discriminant Validity, Face Validity
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Behaviour may change because of being observed: understanding research: video link on slid, research strategies a. Developmental challenges: regulating her emotions, establishing her self-identity, establishing autonomy with parents. Social doesn"t want to go to school, attached to mother, sad, unhappy, withdraw from social activities: suffering grades. Nomothetic: e. g. understanding children with childhood depressive disorder. Those are the items that differentiate children with a prolems and without a problem information to include in your clinical description, what would you have included in your clinical assessemtn: does her behaviour differ form norm. 2. intesntity, frequency, duration sad, hard time sleeping, eating, avoids going to school. Progrnosis: what will happen if she does not receive helpwill circumstance remain same, detoriate or improveimportant to take this into consideration. Treatment planningand evaluation: will chaning current situation help with her symptoms. Treatment:we need data that show that intervention works, intervention can be an ongoing trail and error, dynamic approach.
