PS280 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Thematic Apperception Test, Dsm-5, Mental Status Examination
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Assessing psychological disorders: clinical assessment and diagnosis, dsm-5, reliability, validity, standardization. The clinical interview and physical examination: mental status exam. Start with straightforward questions like what"s your name, do you know what day it is. Structured or semi structured: physical examination. Behavioural assessment: target behaviours, abcs of observation. Antecedents, behaviours, and consequences: self-monitoring, reactivity. What you go through/how your behaviour changes when you think you"re being observed: mainly used for highly behavioural things like phobias or for children. All about the way you order your world and what that says about your personality: personality inventories. Neuropsychological testing and working memory: bender visual-motor gestalt test, halstead-reitan neuropsychological battery. Still used today to compliment neuroimaging: false positives, false negatives. Evoked potential: electrodermal response (gsr, electromyogram (emg) Diagnosing psychological disorders: classification, taxonomy, nosology, nomenclature, diagnostic and statistical manual (dsm-5) International classification of disease and health related problems (icd- Either you are or you aren"t: dimensional approach.
