PSY341H5 Chapter 4: chapter 4 notes
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The decision-making process: clinical assessment use systematic problem solving strategies to understand children with disturbances, their family, their environment. The assessment includes emotional, behavioral and cognitive functioning and looks into environmental factors as well. Clinical assessments are meaningful to the extent that they result in practical and effective interventions. Ideographic case formulation obtaining detailed understanding of the individual and his family as a unique entity. Nomothetic formulation broad general inferences that apply to large groups of individuals: developmental considerations age, gender and culture. Cultural syndrome a pattern of co-occurring, relatively invariant symptoms associated with a particular cultural group, mal de ojo, evil eye . Childhood disorders are often defined by the age inappropriateness, severity and pattern of symptoms. , also the extent to which symptoms result in impairment in functioning. Clinical description summarizes the unique behaviors, thoughts, and feelings that together make up the features of the child"s psychological disorder.
