DSM
This diagnosis is characterised by persistent deficits in social communication and social interaction across multiple contexts, as manifested by all of the following, currently or by history.
What is Autism Spectrum Disorder?
This assessment uses five self-report inventories to assess symptoms of depression, anxiety, anger, disruptive behaviour, and self-concept in children and adolescents
What is the Beck Youth Inventory?
Developed a hierarchy of needs comprising a five-tier model of human needs, often depicted as hierarchical levels within a pyramid.
Who is Abraham Maslow?
Psychologists fully inform clients regarding the psychological services they intend to provide, unless an explicit exception has been agreed upon in advance
What is Informed Consent?
Painted by Leonardo da Vinci, this iconic portrait showcases a woman with a mysterious and captivating smile.
What is the Mona Lisa?
People with this diagnosis often display a persistent pattern of inattention and/or hyperactivity-impulsivity that interferes with functioning or development.
What is Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder?
This intelligence test measures a child's intellectual ability and 5 cognitive domains that impact performance.
What is the WISC-V?
Best known for developing psychoanalysis, theories of the unconscious mind and personality. Also developed the Oedipal Complex.
Who is Sigmund Freud?
The ways of understanding the stories of people's lives, and ways of re-authoring these stories in collaboration between the therapist.
What is Narrative Therapy?
This inventor, known for his contributions to the development of alternating current electricity, engaged in a famous rivalry with Thomas Edison.
Who is Nikola Tesla?
Children with this diagnosis present with a consistent pattern of inhibited, emotionally withdrawn behaviour toward adult caregivers, manifested by both of the following:
1. The child rarely or minimally seeks comfort when distressed.
2. The child rarely or minimally responds to comfort when distressed.
What is Reactive Attachment Disorder?
This scale is a simple, four-item session-by-session measure designed to assess areas of life functioning known to change as a result of therapeutic intervention.
What is the Outcome Rating Scale?
A Russian and Soviet experimental neurologist and physiologist known for his discovery of classical conditioning through his experiments with dogs.
Who is Ivan Pavlov?
Its biological function is complex, touching on diverse functions including mood, cognition, reward, learning, memory, and numerous physiological processes
What is Serotonin?
Formed by centuries of erosion, this grand canyon in Arizona is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
What is the Grand Canyon?
This diagnosis presents as a developmentally inappropriate and excessive fear or anxiety concerning separation from those to whom the individual is attached.
What is Separation Anxiety?
This test is a norm-referenced and individually administered measure of receptive vocabulary based on words.
What is the PPVT/Peabody/Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test?
Best known for having developed behaviour analysis, and developing a theory he would articulate as the principle of reinforcement.
Burrhus Frederic Skinner
An extension of family systems, it broadens its scope to any systems at play specifically in adolescence. These influences include the biological, interpersonal, cultural and systemic. These approaches are more community oriented than individualised
What are Ecological Approaches?
Written by George Orwell, this dystopian novel explores themes of government surveillance and censorship.
What is "1984"?
People with this disorder tend to have persistent difficulties discarding or parting with possessions, regardless of their actual value.
What is Hoarding Disorder?
This assessment offers a completely nonverbal measure of intelligence that is ideal for use with those who are cognitively delayed, non-English speaking, hearing impaired, speech impaired, or on the autism spectrum.
What is the Leiter-3?
One of the founders of humanistic psychology and was known especially for his person-centered psychotherapy
Who is Carl Rogers?
These are the three main principles of this guiding document for psychologists:
1. Respect for the rights and dignity of people and peoples.
2. Propriety
3. Integrity.
What is the APS Code of Ethics?
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903, this pioneering scientist’s research laid the foundation for modern atomic theory.
Who is Marie Curie?