Kuliah Dek Rizky Psikologi

Phases in clinical assessment :

• Groth – marmat ( 2003 ) :
• Evaluating the referral questions
• Acquiring knowledge relating to the content of the problem
• Data collection
• Interpreting the data
• Conceptual validity ( Maloney , and Ward, 1976 )

The clinical assessment process

• Nietzel, Bernstein, and Millich ( 2003 ) :
• A Schematic view of the clinical assessment process
• I => Planning, data, collection, procedure.
• II => Collecting, assessment, data
• III => Data, processing and hypothesis formation
• IV => Communicating assessment data

Planning for assessment :

• What do want to know?
• Assessment levels :
• Somatic
• Physical
• Demographic
• Overt behavior
• Cognitive / intellectual
• Emotional / Affective
• Environmental

Factors guiding assessment choices

• theoretical Model
• Reliability and Validity
• Clinician’s assessment specific factors ( personal preferences, training experiences )
• Clinician’s assessment strategy ( bandwidth – fidelity issues )

The goals of clinical assessment

• Diagnostic classification
• Psychodiagnosis ; Differential diagnosis
• DSM – IV, ICD – 10
• Description
• Person – environment interactions
• Prediction
• For selection

Collecting assessment data :

• How should we go about learning it?
• Sources of assessment data. Interviews, observations, test, life record
• the value of multiple assessment sources

Processing assessment data

• Data processing or clinical judgement

• Determine what their mean
• Transformed from data raw data into interpretations and conclusions
• Level and types : ( clinical inference )
• Goal
• underlying theoretical approach
• Level of abstraction : Lowest vs highest inference level
• Three views of assessment data : Samples, Correlates, Signs
• Approaches, views, and levels
• The process of clinical inference
• Clinical intuition
• The clinician as inference expert
• Formal vs informal inference