What Is Being Assessed?
Psychometrics
Types of Assessments
Rating Scales
Family Assessments
100
Family membership, structure of the family, ethnic group and sexual orientation.
What is Family Composition
100
Two key psychometric properties used in the technical description of assessments.
What is reliability and validity?
100
Most common means of assessing family relations and processes in the context of research.
What is self-report assessment?
100
Appendix in the DSM IV used to assist clinicians in the diagnosis of individual patients by emphasizing their relational context. It is based on a dimensional rating scale from 1 to 99.
What is the Global Assessment of Relational Functioning Scale?
100
Self-report measure demonstrated with live family in class that assesses family adaptability, and cohesion. It was developed in 1978 by Portner and Bell for their dissertation which was supervised by Olson.
What is FACES?
200
Interactions among family members that characterize patterns of behavioral exchanges.
What is Family Process
200
Measures the consistency of an instrument
What is reliability?
200
Can range from qualitative to quantitative and includes having families complete tasks such as "problem-solving" tasks.
What is Observational Assessment?
200
Marital and family systems rating observational rating scale. Rated on Flexibility, Cohesion and communication.
What is the Circumplex Model?
200
36 item test developed by Beavers and Hampson that measures competence and style, conflict resolution, cohesion, leadership, and emotional expressiveness.
What is the Self-Report Family Inventory?
300
Sequences of couple or family interactions that develop over time and are related to positive or negative outcomes.
What is Patterned Relationships
300
Reliability that demonstrated agreement over time.
What is test-retest reliability?
300
General method of interviewing clients within a framework of preexisting criteria that will be used to make clinical assessments.
What is Diagnostic interviewing?
300
Rating scale assessing overall family functioning, including: problem solving, communication, roles, affective responsiveness, affective involvement, and behavior control. It also has a sibling self-report scale called the Family Assessment Device (FAD).
What is the Mcmaster Clinical Rating Scale?
300
Self-report assessment developed by Epstein, Bishop, and Levin that assesses overall health, problem solving, communication, and roles.
What is the Family Assessment Device?
400
The nature of the emotional expression among family members
What is Family Affect
400
The extent to which the 2 or more raters agree.
What is inter-rater reliability?
400
Refers to the use of a variety of categories of questions designed to obtain information and initiate therapeutic change.
What is Interventive Interviewing?
400
This 21 item scale developed by Yingling measures dyadic marital executive system, parent-child subsystem, and extended family subsystem and organizational structure interaction.
What is the Systematic Assessment of Family Environment (SAFE)?
400
Graphic representation of a family's interpersonal relationships family history over multiple generations.
What is the Genogram?
500
Spoken and unspoken rules and roles with family boundaries, and hierarchy
What is Family Organization
500
The ability of a device to measure what it is intended to measure.
What is validity?
500
Example: "In the midst of the monumental job of caring for your dying son, how are you maintaining your own sense of self?"
What are Reflexive Questions?
500
This global rating scale is measures family competence and style by assessing structure, perception, goal directed negotiation, autonomy, family affect, and pathology. This scale resembles the Circumplex Model as its responses can fall in the midrange (normal) to extreme (dysfunction) areas on the plot.
What is the Beavers Interactional Style Scale?
500
Projective drawing measure of family functioning.
What is the Kinetic Family Drawing?
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