PSYC 2130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Psychological Intervention, Hermann Rorschach
20 Oct 2014
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A good psychological report should always say something about the client/referral (assess cognitive functioning) Why the person failed to cope with minor incident in such a dramatic matter (attempt to explain why he behaved) Candidacy for psychotherapy: important to determine before assessment whether they will benefit from psychotherapy. Asking psychologist to tell you about them (talk to them) Make inferences of why they do what they do. Carries great deal of weight : provisional diagnosis/formulation. Personality assessment: most strongly related to theoretical orientation of psychologist (variability among clinicians on how they assess patients) Personality test varies: function, level of structure, how they are constructed: working/operational definition of object (go to research literature) Measuring personality: we have to rely on self-report data (ask patient to tell us about themselves) Swiss psychologists interested in brain functioning; collecting data from patients (develop idea that there is connection between personality and perception (projected test)
