Abnormal Psychology

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Abnormal Psychology

• Chapter 3
• Assessment

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Assessment

• A procedure by which the clinician, using
  psychological tests, observations and/or
  interviews, develops a summary of the cts
  symptoms and problems in an attempt to its nature
  and extent.
• History
• Current Situation
• Predict

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Assessment Types

• Neurological
• Neuropsychological
• Halstead Reitan, Luria - Nebraska
• Psychosocial Direct Methods
• Assessment Interviews
• Clinical Observation
• Psychosocial Indirect Methods
• IQ Tests WISC, WAIS
• Projective Personality Tests - Rorschach
• Objective Personality Tests MMPI - II

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Treatments

• Biologically Based
• ECT
• Neurosurgery
• Permissive Indulgent
• Frontal Lobotomy (1935 1955)
• Pharmacological Treatments
• Psychologically Based

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Psychologically Based

• Psychoanalysis
• Free association
• Dreams
• Transference (counter)
• Behaviorism
• Token Economy/ Contracting
• Aversion Therapy
• Cognitive and Cognitive-Behavioral
• Prejudice and discrimination

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Success In Therapy

• Quantitative v. Qualitative
• Without Therapy?
• Harmful?