Psychology 2030A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory, Differential Diagnosis, Concurrent Validity
10 Dec 2016
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Differential diagnosis is a process in which a clinician weighs how likely it is that a person has one diagnosis instead of another based on symptoms. Screening (identify psychological problems or predict risk for future. Diagnosis (identification of illness) more info that is collected, better the. Outcome evaluation evaluating progress, wide range of outcomes. Positive or negative scoring if you have a positive, that means the score suggests. There can be false negatives and false positives want to minimize these. Intellectual disability academic inability due to hearing loss. Medication reaction vs. depression some medications cause people to feel down. Brain tumor vs. anorexia nervosa tumors can cause change in personality as well. Standardization administer the assessment tool using the same instructions as someone else would administer it so there are no confounds don"t say if the. Normative comparisons convert scores to t score to compare to proper age group. Self-referent comparisons compare a patient"s performance with their previous.
