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 »
