PSYC 3140 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Somatic Symptom Disorder, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Binge Eating Disorder
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Chapter four - clinical assessment, diagnosis, and treatment. Then they are in a position to offer treatment. Assessment is simply the collecting of relevant information in an effort to reach a conclusion. Clinical assessment is used to determine how and why a person is behaving abnormally and how that person may be helped: focus is idiographic (i. e. , on an individual person, also may be used to evaluate treatment progress. The specific tools used in an assessment depend on the clinician"s theoretical orientation. Hundreds of clinical assessment tools have been developed and fall into three categories: 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 is administered. One must standardize administration, scoring, and interpretation. Reliability refers to the consistency of an assessment measure. A good tool will always yield the same results in the same situation.
