University Programs & Policies
The ABCs of CBT
G1 Assessments
DSM Dx Fun
Stats Master
100
Diversity is an important Program Goal. This university program is responsible for bringing activities and events that facilitate a greater respect for diverse populations to all campuses.
What is I-MERIT?
100
A common CBT intervention of sending the client out with tasks to complete; these tasks are discussed in a subsequent therapy session.
What is homework?
100
This assessment is taught during the G1 year has tasks that use counting rods and plastic cups.
What is the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale?
100
The DSM identifies three learning disorders that are usually first diagnosed in infancy, childhood, or adolescence, including Reading Disorder, Written Expression Disorder, and this learning disorder that involves difficulty following sequential steps and counting objects.
What is Mathematics Disorder?
100
A measure of central tendency related to identifying the value repeated most frequently.
What is the mode?
200
This model of training and education emphasizes the primacy of field training objectives over objectives that are purely research-oriented and describes the training model used by the Sacramento Clinical PsyD program.
What is the Practicioner-Scholar Model?
200
This homework intervention requires the client to keep track of the time certain thoughts or behaviors occur. The data is then used to evaluate casual associations between thoughts, external events, and behaviors. Without these, therapists 'wood' have difficulty identifying patterns.
What is a log?
200
For interpretation of this assessment, a psychologist must first calculate various algorithms. One such algorithm employs the variable of Nature as a component to identify an ego defense.
What is the Rorschach Inkblot Method?
200
This disorder involves self-evaluation that is excessively dominated by the influence of body shape and weight factors, as well as the tendency to inappropriately use excessive exercise to prevent weight gain.
What is Bulimia Nervosa?
200
The variance for a sample is a measure of variability that is computed by dividing the sum of squares by this value.
What is N-1 (or the total number in the population minus one) value?
300
Concerns and complaints about program policies are first directed to Dr. Limberg, the Program Director. Unresolved issues are directed to this person in the next step of the university grievance process.
Who is the Dean (or Dr. Sammons)?
300
CBT interventions work on changing behavior through education, conditioning, and practicing of techniques to modify inconsistent or distorted thoughts or beliefs. This type of analysis requires developing hypotheses about how a target behavior functions situationally so that it can be better reinforced or reduced. It uses data primarily from a record of antecedents, behaviors and consequences related to motor functions, feelings, cognitions, and environmental events that a client experiences while involved in a target behavior.
What is a functional analysis?
300
This three-word instrument evaluates reported data from stressor variables in relation to lack of social support. It also evaluates measures of manic behavior in terms of activity level, grandiosity, and irritability.
What is the Personality Assessment Inventory?
300
V codes are additional codes that contribute to the diagnostic information of primary diagnoses. The presence of a V code of 71.09 on Axis II signifies this condition.
What is No Diagnosis?
300
This axiom of statistics--which provides the foundation for parametric testing-- states that for any population, the distribution of sample means will approach normal as the n (population) reaches infinity.
What is the central limit theorem?
400
Problem resolution procedures for problems with staff members designate this staff person as the primary contact for resolution. The person currently in this position is Penny Schafer.
What is the Director of Campus and Student Services?
400
Research suggests that clients with social and other phobias demonstrate dramatic improvement following CBT interventions. In this intervention, a patient is gradually subjected to events that trigger the fear response and is required to experience the anxiety without avoidance. This type of therapy is named after the process of subjecting the client directly to fear-producing environmental stimuli.
What is exposure therapy?
400
The Rorschach Inkblot method is a projective test associated with measuring Erlebnistypus, which is German for "Experience Type." This experience type is said to approach problems by sometimes calling more centrally on emotions, intuition, and interpersonal information, and at other times to use introspection and delay.
What is ambitent?
400
After ruling out the causes of medical conditions and substance abuse, the next step in the differential diagnosis of mood disorders is to assess the presence of this disorder based on an evaluation of a client's current, presenting affective state and a thorough history of his/her mood patterns.
What is Bipolar Disorder?
400
There are two very important assumptions that must be satisfied to use the chi-square test for goodness of fit. One of these is that the size of expected frequency in each cell should not be less than five. This second assumption is related to fitting into categories and is also required for using z and t statistical tests.
What is Independence of Observations?
500
This CSPP Institute is a national center for LGTB Policy and Gender Issues.
What is Rockway?
500
CBT techniques have significant empirical backing. Because they base interventions on data and research findings, they are often associated with this two-word term that means that professional use of therapeutic interventions is grounded in research.
What is evidence-based practice?
500
In the WISC-IV test administration manual, the instructions on this particular core subtest require items to be scored on the degree of generalization relative to the scoring criteria provided for each item. Some items require communication of multiple concepts.
What is Comprehension?
500
Schizophreniform Disorder and Schizoaffective Disorder are both diagnostic categories under the broad diagnostic section named Schizophrenia and Other Psychotic Disorders. Of these two disorders, the criteria dictate that psychosis related to this disorder can be a manifestation of a Mood Disorder related to an uninterrupted period of illness.
What is Schizoaffective Disorder?
500
This statistical result is caused by running multiple t-tests without controlling for mathematical dilution of the significance level. Without controlling for this--for example, by utilizing an ANOVA test instead-- it would be too difficult to find significant results in an experiment.
What is Alpha Inflation?