Evidence-Based Assessment
One of the first steps to assessment
What is the client is referred, meeting the client and building rapport, or making behavioral observations?
These are two issues you must be aware of when evaluating a psychometric tool
What are: Theoretical Orientation, Practical Considerations, Standardizations, Reliability, and Validity?
According to Fletcher et al. (2018)'s Chapter 2, this is one of the reasons that specific learning disorders are so difficult to define.
What is they are an unobservable construct, they have dimensional attributes, or comorbidity?
These are the names of two structured/semi-structured clinical interviews
What are: Schedule of Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia (SADS; K-SADS) • Diagnostic Interview Schedule (DIS; DISC) • Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-5 (SCID) • Diagnostic Interview for Children and Adolescents (DICA) • Anxiety Disorders Interview Scheduled for DSM-5 (ADIS) • Clinician-Administered PTSD Scale for DSM-5 (CAPS) • Global Appraisal of Individual Needs (GAIN) • Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale (Y-BOCS) • Disruptive Behavior Disorders Interview (DBD) • Adult ADHD Clinical Diagnostic Scale (ACDS)?
This is the gold standard for diagnosing Autism Spectrum Disorder, which uses behavior, communication, social interaction, play, and the imaginative use of materials.
What is the Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule (ADOS) - 2?
One approach NOT to use in evidence-based assessment
What are intuition-driven approaches, test-driven approaches, diagnosis-driven approaches, or context-free approaches?
Sensitivity
What is the proportion of true positives that are correctly identified (classifying who has it)?
The coding subtest of the WAIS-5 is a subscale on this Index.
What is Processing Speed?
This semi-structured clinical interview uses a Feelings Thermometer and asks interviewers to assign a Clinician Severity Ratings (CSR) for each domain assessed.
What is the Anxiety and Related Disorders Interview Schedule for DSM-5 (ADIS-5)?
This is a category of behavioral observation
What is Attitude toward examiner; Attention; Following directions; Affect; Speech, expressive and receptive language; Gestures and nonverbal behavior; Content of communications; or Visual, Visual-Motor, and Motor Skills?
A con of using an unstructured interview
What is being subject to interviewer bias, reliability hard to determine, or requires training/experience?
When you would want to use classical test theory to evaluate a measure
What is when you don’t need item-level prediction, when you have a smaller sample (less than 500), when you don’t need to compare scores across tests, or when the emphasis is on the whole test’s properties?
A domain of impairment of adaptive functioning in those with an Intellectual Disability
What is the Conceptual Domain, Social Domain, or Practical Domain?
This is something you can do to improve clinical accuracy
What is: Use comprehensive, structure/semi-structured interviews; Take care to consider both supporting and disconfirming evidence; Diagnoses based on attention to specific DSM-5 criteria; Avoid working from memory– take notes; Attend to base rates when making clinical predictions; Seek feedback on the accuracy and usefulness of your judgement; Learn as much as possible about the theoretical and empirical material relevant to the people/group you are assessing; or Become familiar with the literature on clinical judgement?
Intent, plan, means
What are 3 things you would want to assess when determining suicide risk?
A pro of behavior rating scales
What is time efficient, reliable, norm-referenced,
validity scales, or broad or specific?
Incremental validity
What is, "Does this test produce accurate results above and beyond the results that could be obtained with greater ease and less expense?"
Ipsative comparison in IQ testing
What is comparing one aspect of a person’s results to another (e.g., doing worse on one subscale compared to an overall score, making it a relative weakness)?
Frequency (How often?), Severity (How intense? How severe?), and Duration (How long does it last? How long has this been going on?) are the type of behavioral examples you need to get when interviewing ____________.
What is a parent (about a child)?
Person, place, and time.
What is orientation on the Mental Status Exam (MSE)?
This is a principle of evidence-based assessment
What is decisions being made should be informed by current or best available research; interpretations from testing should only be made for situations/populations for which they have been validated; or using a hypothesis-driven approach?
A step in measure construction
What is Find out what’s out there first; Defining construct (Kroenback); Develop items; Recruit people that fit your sample to which you want to apply this measure; Pilot on a sample; Fix problems from the pilot; or Repilot in a larger sample?
The prevalence of Specific Learning Disorder is ____% among school-age children.
What is 5-15 percent?
In the domain of clinical judgement, clinicians are not better than laypeople in doing this.
What is making judgments based on projective tests; or making personality descriptions based on face-to-face interactions?
This is one of the four areas you score children on in the ADOS-2 assessment
What is Language/communication, Social interaction, Play or imagination/creativity, or Repetitive behavior?