PSY 395 Lecture 5: 2/05
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Assessment: a procedure by which clinician, using psychological tests, observation, and interviews, develop a summary of the client" symptoms and problems. Diagnosis: summary classification of the patient"s symptoms using a clearly defined system like. Taking a social history (personality factors and how does it interact with the social environment) Clinicians should be aware of biases and not limit themselves to one type of assessment. Inter-rater (do two clinicians agree on a diagnosis?: within, coefficient alpha. In order to be valid, it has to be reliable) A measure that can be reliable without being valid. The opposite is not true; a necessary prerequisite for validity is that the test must be reliable. Types of validity: content (is the content actually what you"re looking for, criterion (concurrent/predictive, construct (convergent/divergent) can either converge with something or discriminate against something, standardized (everyone is getting something) Trust and rapport between the clinician and the client.
