PSY 338 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Child Behavior Checklist, School Refusal, Projective Test

• School: Stony Brook University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 338
• Professor: o'leary

Document Summary

Psy 338 chapter 4: assessment, diagnosis, and treatment. Assessing disorders: clinical assessment relies on a multi-method assessment approach that emphasizes the importance of , obtaining info from different informants, using a variety of methods that include interviews, observations, questionnaires, and tests. Requested to go to school physical complaints. I"m no good at anything depressive symptoms. Intelligence (wppsi-r), standford-binet-5 (sb5), and the kaufman assessment battery for children (k-abc-ii: projective testing, presenting the child with ambiguous stimuli and asking the child what he or she sees. Classification and diagnosis: classification: a system for representing the major categories or dimensions of child psychopathology and the boundaries and relations among them. Idiographic strategies (child"s unique situation) and nomothetic strategies (general categories of problems: categories and dimensions. Important to consider cultural values/norms/expectations and religious beliefs/practices: treatment goals, outcomes related to child functioning, reduce/eliminate symptoms, reduce degree of impairment in functioning, outcomes related to family functioning, reduce level of family dysfunction.