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 )
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Clinical observation assessment

• Goals :
• Collect informational that is not available in any other way
• Supplement other data as part of a multiple assessment approach

Benefits of observational assessment

• Supplementing self – reports
• Highlighting situational determinants of behavior : signs vs samples
• Minimizing inference
• Enhancing ecological validity

Observational method

• Selection : people , classes of behavior, events, situations, time
• Provocation : provoke or wait
• Recording : observer memory, record sheet, audio or videotape, physiological monitoring system, timers, counters
• Encording : most difficult : a system for encoding raw observations into usable form must be developed

Approach to observational assessment

• Naturalistic vs controlled observation
• Participants vs non participants : Complete observer, Observer as participant, participant as observer, complete participant Read the rest of this entry »