Assessment
The structured process of gathering client background, relationship, and environmental data.
What is a psychosocial assessment?
A visual tool mapping family relationships across generations.
What is a genogram?
A clinician’s awareness that personal bias can affect assessment.
What is cultural humility?
The model that views families as evolving through predictable life stages.
What is the family life cycle?
The therapist’s tentative explanation for how the presenting problem developed
What is a working hypothesis?
A brief evaluation used to identify possible disorders or risk factors.
What is screening?
A diagram that shows the client’s links to external systems such as work or community.
What is an ecomap?
The understanding that culture shapes symptom expression and help-seeking behavior.
What is cultural awareness?
: The adolescent developmental task of forming identity while staying connected.
What is individuation?
This occurs when a hypothesis changes as new information is gathered
What is recursive assessment?
The examination of appearance, behavior, mood, and cognition during assessment.
What is a Mental Status Exam (MSE)?
A genogram symbol showing an intense, conflictual bond.
What is a double line with a zigzag?
The DSM-5 interview that helps assess how culture influences distress.
What is the Cultural Formulation Interview (CFI)?
The middle adulthood task of guiding the next generation.
What is generativity?
Using multiple perspectives to build a balanced understanding of the client’s functioning.
What is systemic hypothesizing
A client questionnaire or scale used to track progress.
What is an outcome measure?
The process of recognizing multigenerational patterns through mapping
What is intergenerational analysis?
The process of adapting to a new culture while keeping aspects of one’s own.
What is acculturation?
The stage when aging parents rely on adult children for support.
What is the launching or retirement stage?
Theoretical ideas that guide interpretation of client data.
What are conceptual frameworks
The process of ruling out similar conditions to reach a precise diagnosis.
What is differential diagnosis?
An assessment that explores patterns of emotional connection, boundaries, and alliances.
What is a relational assessment?
The belief that one’s own culture is superior to others.
What is ethnocentrism?
Erikson’s final developmental conflict.
What is integrity versus despair?
The ability to revise systemic understanding throughout therapy.
What is circular hypothesis development?