Exam 4: Assessment, Diagnosis, and Treatment

 ____ means generating predictions concerning future behavior under specified conditions.

 This describes a process of gathering information that is used to understand the nature of an individual's problem, its possible causes, treatment options, and outcomes.

 Intervention focuses on ____.

 A leading checklist for assessing behavioral problems in children and adolescents is the ____.

 More than 70% of practicing clinicians identify their therapeutic approach as ____.

 Categorical classification systems are based primarily on ____.

 An advantage of behavior checklists over interviews is that checklists allow a clinician to ____ while interviews typically do not.

 Which aspect would generally be assessed by behavioral assessment methods?

 What is relational aggression? Are males or females more likely to exhibit this behavior? Provide two examples of relational aggression.

 Neuropsychological assessments are primarily used to ____.

 Which of the following is NOT one of the core principles of therapeutic change identified by Weisz, Bearman et al. 2017)?

 A child's ____ has the most implications for judgments about deviancy and for selecting appropriate assessment and treatment methods.

 When working with children and families, cultural information is most needed to ____.

 Semistructured interviews tend to be ____ than unstructured interviews.

 Which of the following is a criticism of the DSM-5?

 Explain the "ABCs of assessment" and give examples of each.

 Culturally competent mental health services include ____.

 Under what circumstances would a clinician choose to administer a semistructured versus an unstructured interview? What are the benefits and/or drawbacks of each?

 Which symptom would be characteristic of the anxious/depressed dimension of child psychopathology?

 Minimum ethical standards for practice include: