Training
Assessment
Clinical Interview
Personality & Behavioral Assessment
Miscellaneous
100
These are the two main approaches to clinical psychology that were discussed in class.
What are deficits and strengths?
100
The designation of a label that best fits a set of presenting symptoms.
What is a diagnosis?
100
This is what interviewers use to allow a client to determine what they'd like to talk about, without direction from the interviewer.
What is a nondirective style?
100
This is the most popular and most psychometrically sound objective personality test used by clinical psychologists.
What is the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 (MMPI-2)?
100
This is who publishes the DSM.
What is the American Psychiatric Association?
200
This is the approach to clinical training that emphasizes both practice and research, also known as the Boulder model.
What is the scientist-practitioner model?
200
The four stages of clinical assessment.
What are planning the assessment, collecting assessment data, processing assessment data, and communicating assessment data?
200
This type of question allows for individualized and spontaneous responses from clients. Clients' answers are usually long.
What is an open-ended question?
200
This is a description of the BDI-II.
What is a brief self-report, pencil-and-paper test that assesses depressive symptoms in adults and adolescents?
200
This is the model of training used in the clinical psychology program at BGSU.
What is the scientist-practioner model?
300
These are the four levels of analysis for interventions discussed in class.
What are individual, family/small group, organizational, and community/institutional perspectives?
300
The breadth of information collected during a clinical assessment device.
What is bandwidth?
300
These are aspects of body language that interviewers should keep in mind to create a good environment during an interview.
What are showing an attentive appearance, minimalizing restlessness, facing the client at a good angle, displaying appropriate facial expressions and eye contact.
300
This is what it's called when you unknowingly view something as abnormal that is actually culturally normal.
What is overpathologizing?
300
The medical model of psychopathology.
What is the approach where mental disorders are defined categorically and classified by distinct lists of specific symptoms?
400
This is how social problems are conceptualized from a community or institutional perspective.
When psychologists believe that social problems are created by institutions rather than people; and that the setting needs to change, perhaps through a redistribution of power will help.
400
The subtype of reliability that yields similar results across different administrators.
What is interrater reliability?
400
This is what it's called when the interviewer says something like, "Earlier you said that Erik was the reason you left home, but then a few minutes ago you said that it was because of your health. I'm a bit confused."
What is a confrontation?
400
This is the definition of behavioral observation (a.k.a. naturalistic observation).
What is the direct, systematic observation of a client's behavior in their natural environment?
400
These are the 5 "Big Five" personality traits assessed by the NEO-PI-R.
What are neuroticism, extraversion, openness, agreeableness, and conscientiousness?
500
The definition of Clinical Psychology according to the American Psychological Association (APA).
What is the integration of science, theory, and practice to understand, predict, and alleviate maladjustment, disability, and discomfort as well as promote human adaption, adjustment, and personal development. Clinical Psychology focuses on the intellectual, emotional, biological, psychological, social, and behavioral aspects of human functioning across the lifespan, in varying cultures, and at all socioeconomic levels.
500
Controversy about using diagnostic categories for the classification of psychopathology.
What are issues with the validity (~ accuracy) and reliability (~ consistency) of the classification system. Also, the untended consequences of putting a label on the individual's well-being.
500
This is why it's important for an interviewer to reflect on their own culture and values as well as appreciate the client's unique cultural context and values.
What are respect for and understanding of individual and cultural differences that may impact the interviewer-interviewee dynamic and communication process?
500
These are the 5 Determinants for scoring the Rorschach.
What are form, movement, color, texture, and content?
500
This is what it means to use evidence-based assessments.
What is the selection of assessment methods that have strong validity, reliability, and clinical utility?
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