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Assessing Psychological Disorders 2014 PPT — based on Comer, Fundamentals of Abnormal Psychology, 7e, © 2014, 2013, 2010 by Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved.
Assessment, diagnosis and clinical interventions for children and young people with autism spectrum disorders A national clinical guideline 2007 — This guideline focuses on assessment, diagnosis and clinical interventions for ASD. It considers the evidence for joint working and consultation with children and young people, and with parents and carers.
Assessment and Diagnosis - PowerPoint PPT Presentation — Assessment and Diagnosis Major Points Treating mental health problems involves gathering sufficient information to make an accurate diagnosis
Assessment of Older Adults with Diminished Capacity: A Handbook for Psychologists 2008 — The current volume is designed for psychologists evaluating civil capacities of older adults. Contemporary probate law encourages functional assessments that describe task-specific deficits rather than global findings. With training in standardized cognitive and functional assessment, psychologists are in an ideal position to provide such evaluations. The specific goal of this handbook is to review psychological assessment of six civil capacities of particular importance to older adults, namely, medical consent capacity, sexual consent capacity, financial capacity, testamentary capacity, capacity to drive, and capacity to live independently.
Clinical Assessment: How and Why Does the Client Behave Abnormally? PPT presentation — Clinical assessment is used to determine how and why a person is behaving abnormally and how that person may be helped
Clinical Assessment and Diagnosis PPT — from Abnormal Psychology: An Integrative Approach, 4th Edition, David H. Barlow
Definition and measurement of neglectful behavior: some principles and guidelines 2005 — The National Academy of Science report on child maltreatment concluded that a lack of clarity in definition and a paucity of standardized, reliable, and valid measures is a serious handicap to progress in research on the causes and effects of maltreatment and developing prevention and treatment programs
Developmental Behaviour Checklist (DBC) — The DBC is a suite of instruments for the assessment of behavioural and emotional problems of children, adolescents, and adults with developmental and intellectual disabilities.
Development and psychometric properties Development and psychometric properties of the Glasgow Depression Scale for people with a Learning Disability 2003 — To develop a scale for individuals with learning disability, and a supplementary scale for carers.
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition 1994 — Complete text
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) 2013 — Overview and status of the new manual
Highlights of Changes from DSM-IV-TR to DSM-5 — Changes made to the DSM-5 diagnostic criteria and texts are outlined in this chapter in the same order in which they appear in the DSM-5 classification. Useful since the DSM 5 will bring major changes to classification and diagnosis.
Highlights of Changes from DSM-IV-TR to DSM-5 — Changes made to the DSM-5 diagnostic criteria and texts are outlined in this chapter in the same order in which they appear in the DSM-5 classification. This is not an exhaustive guide; minor changes in text or wording made for clarity are not described here.
Measurement Instruments in Psychiatry — Treating mental health problems involves gathering sufficient information to make an accurate diagnosis (descriptive label) + create a treatment plan that is likely to be helpful
Mental Health and Illness Overview of Approaches, Definitions, Perspectives PPT — various perspectives
Practice Guidelines for the Assessment and Diagnosis of Mental Health Problems in Adults with Intellectual Disability 2001 — This document is focused on the description of psychiatric illnesses that could affect adults with intellectual disability.
Psychiatric Diagnosis: Lessons from the DSM-IV Past and Cautions for the DSM-5 Future 2012 — Most of this review highlights the general conceptual issues that inform any revision of the APA’s diagnostic manual. We end with specific lessons learned from DSM-IV, our concerns about the direction taken by DSM-5, and a suggestion for a radical change in how the DSM is revised in the future.
Psychological Testing Guidelines — Psychological testing involves the use of formal procedures using reliable and valid instruments to measure the areas of intellectual, cognitive, adaptive, emotional and behavioral functioning along with personality styles, interpersonal skills and psychopathology. Prior to administering a battery of tests it is important for the evaluator to gather (or review) updated clinical information.
Revising Psychological Tests. Lessons Learned From the Revision of the MMPI 2000 — Factors important to consider in a test revision are discussed, and the parameters of personality test revision illustrated from the extensive program to revise the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) are included.
The ICD-10 Classification of Mental and Behavioural Disorders Clinical descriptions and diagnostic guidelines — Sponsored by the WHO. These descriptions and guidelines carry no theoretical implications, and they do not pretend to be comprehensive statements about the current state of knowledge of the disorders. They are simply a set of symptoms and comments that have been agreed, by a large number of advisors and consultants in many different countries, to be a reasonable basis for defining the limits of categories in the classification of mental disorders.