Kuliah Dek Rizky Psikologi

Techniques of interview :

• Interviewer attitude : acceptance, understanding, sincerity
• Five types of interview questions : open – ended, facilitative, clarifying, comforting, direct.

Reliability of interview :

• Reliability :
• Information variance : refer to the variation in the questions the clinicians ask, the observation that are made during the interview, and the method of integrating the information that is obtained.
• Criterion variance : refer to variation scoring thresholds among clinicans
• Two types of reliability : Interrater or interjudge reliability, test – retest reliability

Validity of interview

• content validity
• Criterion – related validity
• Discriminant validity
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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 ) Read the rest of this entry »