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Begins with a clinical assessment, which uses systematic problem-solving strategies to understand children with disturbances and their family and school environments
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The decision making process
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The decision making process contains flexible, ongoing hypothesis testing that assesses x3
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Child’s emotional, behavioral, and cognitive
functioning
The role of environmental factors
Nature, causes, and likely outcomes of the
problem
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: assessments focus on obtaining detailed understanding of the child or family as a unique entity
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Idiographic case formulation
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emphasizes general inferences that apply to large groups of individuals
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Nomothetic formulation
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Cultural information is necessary to: x5
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Establish relationship with child and family
Motivate family members to change
Obtain valid information
Arrive at accurate diagnosis
Develop meaningful treatment recommendations
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: recurrent patterns of maladaptive behaviors and/or troubling experiences associated with different cultures or localities
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Culture-bound syndromes
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What kind of normative information must be considered?
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Knowledge, experience, and basic information about
norms of child development and behavior problems are
crucial in understanding why some children are referred
to professionals
Isolated symptoms show little correspondence with
children’s overall adjustment
Age inappropriateness and pattern of symptoms typically
define childhood disorders
The extent to which symptoms result in impairment in the
child’s functioning is a key consideration
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is the formulation of predictions about future
behavior under specified conditions
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Prognosis
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summarizes the child’s unique behaviors, thoughts, and feelings that together make up the features of the child’s psychological disorder
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Clinical descriptions
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involves analyzing information and drawing
conclusions about the nature or cause of the problem, and in some cases, assigning a formal diagnosis
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Diagnosis
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using assessment information to generate a treatment plan and evaluating its effectiveness
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Treatment planning and evaluation
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What are the 4 purposes of assessments?
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- clinical decription
- diagnosis - prognosis - treatment planning |
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what approach emphasizes the importance of obtaining information from different informants, in a variety of settings, and using a variety of methods that include interviews, observations, questionnaires, and tests
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Multimethod assessment approach
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Clinical assessments rely on what approach?
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Multimethod assessment approach
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Methods used to assessing a disorder need to be ... x4
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- reliable
- valid - cost-effective - useful for treatment |
