PSY 335 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Substance Dependence, Dsm-5, Self-Defeating Personality Disorder
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The collection and synthesis of information to inform judgement. Clinicians do no better than untrained professionals at making clinical judgements. More data can lead to increased confidence, but more data does not always mean increased accuracy. Statistical prediction > clinical judgment: modest advantage (around 10% or less in meta-analytic reviews, best at predicting low base rate events (e. g. ) violence. Setting, type of judgment, provided information can alter this relationship. Description: classification, factors influencing/maintaining presenting problem. Similarities in tx: what treatment, by whom, is most effective for this individual with that specific problem and under which set of circumstances? gordon. Prediction: prognosis, future function, dangerousness (ability to correctly identify 80 from book) Collect data: why would we want data from multiple sources, collection overtime. Example from book: little boy chopping up a worm. A client who scores really high on somatization scale: somatoform disorders are mental illnesses that express themselves as the experience of bodily symptoms, including pain.
