PSYCH 360 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Neuropsychological Test, Concurrent Validity, Predictive Validity
20 Apr 2016
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Chapter 4 clinical assessment, diagnosis, and treatment. Assessment is collecting relevant information in an effort to reach a conclusion: used to determine how and why a person is behaving abnormally and how that person may be helped. The specific tools used in an assessment depend of the clinician"s theoretical orientation. Clinical assessment tools fall into three categories: clinical interviews, tests, observations. To be useful, assessment tools must be standardized and have clear reliability and validity: to standardize a technique is to set up common steps to be followed whenever it, one must standardize administration, scoring, and interpretation is administered. Validity refers to the accuracy of a tool"s results: a good assessment tool must accurately measure what it is supposed to measure, three specific types: Face validity a tool appears to measure what it is supposed to measure; does not necessarily indicate true validity. Predictive validity a tool accurately predicts future characteristics or behavior.
