Exam 3: Clinical Assessment

On the Statistical Clinical Interview Diagnosis (SCID), the severity of a symptom is indicated by:

The assessment of intellectual functioning and related processes in patients who have experience trauma (e.g., stroke) and as result, lack communication abilities is a major problem facing clinicians. One solution to this problem is the use of ____________ to examine cognitive functioning.

PET is to CT scan as

The Halstead-Reitan battery assesses:

Carla is trying to quit smoking. As part of her behavioural assessment, she is asked to maintain a diary and record what occurred before, during and immediately following each time she smoked a cigarette, in real time. That is, she had structured record sheets for each day. This type of assessment is referred to as

Results from the "Inuit Norming Study" indicated that over _____ of children attained a verbal IQ score of less than 70.

What is a key purpose of Person's cognitive behavioural case formulation approach?

Many graduate school applicants are required to take the Graduate Record Examination (GRE). If the applicant were successful and the university were to correlate the scores on their GRE with their first year grade point average (GPA), a high correlation would indicate:

In some measure, the information collected by clinical interviewers during an assessment is limited by:

Which of the following was not a change made in the revised version of the MMPI?

The manner in which a clinical interview is conducted can impact the information obtained.

Applying the SORC factors to a client's situation, a cognitively oriented therapist would find the _________ variable more important than would a Skinnerian behaviour therapist.

One of the reasons specialized approaches to cognitive assessment have been developed is because:

Many scales have been developed in Canada to assess family functioning. One of the major criticisms of these self-report measures is that:

A key reason for using ecological momentary assessments (EMA) is:

The call for using evidence-based assessment techniques parallels the growth in the area of:

The following projective test provides objective criteria for scoring:

The five components of the Persons' case conceptualization approach are:

The family systems approach regards behaviours as:

Connolly and D'Arcy argue that the use of _______________ in assessment has several advantages when assessing patients who lack communication ability.