Section "E" General
The act of gathering information for a variety of purposes.
What is assessment?
The effort to prevent the misuse of noncurrent versions of assessment instruments.
What is obsolete assessment and outdated results?
The nature and purposes of assessment and the specific use of results by potential recipients.
What is recipients of results?
The appropriate environment for the administration of assessments.
What is favorable conditions?
The consideration of socioeconomic, and cultural experiences when diagnosing mental disorders.
What is cultural sensitivity?
The data obtained by first-hand observation, interviews, questionnaires, focus groups, participant observation, recordings in natural settings, documents and artifacts.
What is qualitative methodologies?
The mutual understanding of the exclusive reason to a relationship for the purpose of an evaluation.
What is consent for evaluation?
The prior agreements and explicit understanding pretaining to one's results.
What is recipients of results?
The assessment instruments designed, intended and validated for self-administration.
What is unsupervised assessments?
The consideration of both the negative and positive implications of a diagnosis.
What is refraining from diagnosis?
Having a great focus on quantifying the collection and analysis of data.
What is quantitative methodologies?
The use of established scientific procedures, relevant standards and current knowledge for assessment design.
What is assessment construction?
Assessment techniques used to determine client care such as locus and type of treatment.
What is proper diagnosis?
The keen recognition of the effects that age, race, color, culture, disability, ethnic group, gender, religion, and sexual orientation have on test administration, interpretations and results.
What is multicultural issues?
The act of providing specific questions and sufficient objective data about a client.
What is the referral information?
The appropriate use of assessment results and interpretation while respecting a client's rights.
What is client welfare?
The maintenance of the integrity of tests and assessments consistent with legal and contractual obligations.
What is assessment security?
The application, scoring, interpretations and administration of assessment instruments relevant to the needs of the client.
What is appropriate use?
The reservation of interpreting the results of instruments with little to no support.
What is instruments with insufficient empirical data?
The use of multiple forms of assessment, data, and/or instruments in forming conclusions, diagnoses or recommendations.
What is the appropriateness of instruments?
The proper use of assessment techniques where one is trained and competent.
What is limits of competence?
The production of objective findings that can be substantiated based on information and techniques appropriate to an evaluation.
What is primary obligations of forensic evaluations?
The release of assessment data via approved consent.
What is release of data to qualified personnel?
The administration of assessment under the same conditions that were established in their standardization, except where those with disabilities or unusual behavior irregularities need to be accommodated.
What is the significance of conditions of assessment administration?
The misdiagnosis of certain individuals due to biases of the professional.
What is historical and social prejudices in diagnosis of pathology?