Psychometrics
A type of measurement scale that is simply naming discrete categories, has no natural order, and generates qualitative information
What is a nominal scale?
A structured way of observing and describing a client's psychological functioning under the domains of appearance, attitude, behaviour, mood, and affect, speech, thought process, thought content, perception, cognition, and insight.
What is a mental status examination?
An ethical consideration that is unique to the field of assessments and is related to copyright laws.
What is the integrity and security of test materials?
The acronym SAD PERSONS is a short-hand way of remembering a type of characteristics associated with suicide.
What are risk factors?
This is known to be the strongest predictor of future violence
What is previous history of violence?
The age of majority in BC
What is 19 years of age?
This psychometrician posited a general ability of intelligence (the g factor)
Who is Charles Spearman?
To be diagnosed with a Major Depressive Disorder, the symptoms have to persist for at least this amount of time
What is two weeks?
What part of our Autonomic Nervous System prepares us for fight or flight?
What is the Sympathetic Nervous System?
The type of measurement scale used to measure temperature
What is an interval scale?
A book containing information on English-language psychological tests that is used during the process of test selection
What is the Mental Measurements Yearbook?
An important ethical consideration that involves: communicating the purpose of an assessment in a language that the client understands
What is informed consent?
An aspect of counselling that is arguably the most important factor in the treatment of suicidal behaviours
What is the therapeutic alliance?
A type of personality disorder that is closely linked to violent behaviour
What is Antisocial Personality Disorder?
The source of the legal duty to report suspected child abuse or neglect in BC
What is the Child, Family, and Community Services Act?
This theory of intelligence has been considered a "psychometric nightmare" by psychometricians
What is the theory of Multiple Intelligence?
An alternative to the DSM, this diagnostic text is adopted by 193 countries that are members of the World Health Organization
What is the ICD-10?
This a childhood anxiety disorder that is diagnosed when a child consistently does not speak in some situations, but speaks comfortably in other situations.
What is Selective Mutism?
A type of reliability in which a researcher develops two versions of a test meant to measure motivation in students. He gives one version of the test to a group of college sophomores on a Monday, and the other version of the test to them the next day
What is alternate (parallel) forms reliability?
A comprehensive intake process intends to reduce biases, such as one in which the practitioner relies heavily (becomes stuck) on a piece of information revealed in the early stages of therapy
What is anchoring bias?
A type of assessment bias that involves items being worded in a way that ignores the possibility of one’s membership in a minority group.
What is omission bias?
A level of suicide risk characterized by frequent suicidal ideation with limited intensity and duration; some specific plan(s); no intent; some risk factors; presence of some protective factors.
What is moderate level of suicide risk?
This set of strategies has been proven to be effective when a client is becoming increasingly angry and violent in a session
What are de-escalation strategies?
The point of contact when a child abuse/neglect case involves Aboriginal children and families
What is your local Delegated Aboriginal Child and Family Services Agency?
Robert Sternberg's Triarchic Theory of Intelligence came up with this particular concept which characterizes one's ability to "play the game" and "getting things done"
What is street smart?
This depressive disorder is also known as Dysthymia
What is Persistent Depressive Disorder?
The anxiety a person with agoraphobia experiences is caused by this particular fear.
What is fear of a panic attack?
You are evaluating whether the Adler Counselling Competency Scale can accurately predict future performance as a counsellor
What is criterion (predictive) validity?
Going over the informed consent form with a client is not only a counsellor's ethical duty but also a way to assess a particular type of the client's ability (a legal concept)
What is capacity?
A type of assessment bias in which a construct is understood a certain way by a group of people and another way by a different group of people, which results in response differences
What is conceptual bias?
A type of therapy that has been developed and evaluated as a comprehensive, skills-based treatment for suicidal and parasuicidal behaviour
What is Dialectical Behavioural Therapy?
This type of hallucination poses as a risk factor for violent behaviour
What are command hallucinations?
This syndrome is a manifestation of neglect in which a child has stopped growing and/or has experienced significant weight loss
What is failure to thrive?
The 'Similarities, Vocabulary, Information, Comprehension' subtests of the Wechsler Scales of Intelligence is trying to assess this type of intelligence, as posited by the C-H-C theory
What is crystallized intelligence?
This popular screening measure directly corresponds with the DSM's depressive symptoms, has only 9 items, and is available in the public domain
What is the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9)?
This anxiety screening measure assesses not only situational anxiety but also personality dispositions of anxiety
What is the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory?
A type of distribution that depicts household income and wealth distribution in the US and Canada
What is a positively skewed distribution?
A measure that assesses for therapeutic alliance and administered at the end of each session so the counsellor knows how the session went for the client
What is the Session Rating Scale?
A type of test that tries to minimize cultural bias as much as possible, and is often associated with intelligence tests
What is a culture-fair test?
Under this Act, a physician can involuntarily admit someone into a hospital if this person is deemed to be at imminent risk of suicide and unwilling to admit themselves.
What is the Mental Health Act?
Whether a Duty to Warn exists as part of Canadian common law was thoroughly considered by Canada's highest court in this 1999 landmark case.
What is the Smith vs. Jones case?
The use of this phrase in section 14(1) of the CFCSA describes the nature of the counsellor’s assessment or thought process when considering the information that counsellor has obtained about a child’s particular circumstances (i.e., the counsellor does not have to KNOW that a child is being abused or neglected)
What is 'Reason to Believe?'
The development of the Wechsler Intelligence Scales AND the Stanford-Binet Scale of Intelligence was based on this theory of intelligence
What is the Cattell-Horn-Caroll (CHC) theory of intelligence?
The Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale has three specific items that are intended to assess a particular construct/experience known to be associated with postpartum depression
What is anxiety?
The Beck Anxiety Inventory is known to best detect this type of anxiety disorder
What is Panic Disorder?