Clinical Psych Test 2 History of Assessment & Overview
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Wilhelm Wundt - ✔️✔️-1st psych research lab (1879)
-studied basic elements of minds (introspection)
-used complex machines to study sensation (RT, eye movement, muscle reflexes, hearing)
James Cattell - ✔️✔️-1st psych professor in US
-1880s-90s, coined term "mental tests"
-studied link b/w intelligence and RT, memory span, & sensation/perception
Alfred Binet - ✔️✔️-french, early 1900s
-universal schooling in France caused need for test to id students with special needs
--> developed first standardized IQ test (Binet-Simon Scales/Stanford-Binet), compares
mental age to chronological age
Influence of WWI on Clinical Assessment - ✔️✔️-need for quick, efficient testing of military
recruits
-this was previously done by medical doctors
Early APA Clinical Assessment - ✔️✔️-founded in 1892
-took on role of testing for military
-tests of verbal ability (army alpha) and nonverbal abilities (army beta)
-could be administered in large-group format
--> caused increase in respect for field of clinical psych
Assessment in the 1920's and 30s - ✔️✔️-development of more tests and measures (many still
in use)
-ex: Wechsler Intelligence Scales, Wechsler Memory Scale, strong vocational tests, projective
tests
Influence if WWII on Clinical Assessment - ✔️✔️-clinical psych develops recruitment tests
-also involved in post war activities--> development of psychiatric screening measures, hired
for mental health treatment (shell shock, battle fatigue), funding for clinical training
programs
Focus of Assessment - ✔️✔️generally performed in response to some question or goal, often
end in diagnosis
What is Psychological Assessment? - ✔️✔️a systematic process of gathering and integrating
information about a patient to form a clinical judgment
Tools used in Assessment - ✔️✔️-clinical interviews
-IQ/achievement tests
-personality inventories
-projective tests
-symptoms checklists
-self-monitering forms
Sources used in Assessment - ✔️✔️-patient
-parents
-teachers
-spouse
-clinician
Assessment-focused - ✔️✔️standalone services to provide info about a person's current or
expected psychological deficits
-not performed as part of intervention/treatment
-diagnosis and recommendations can have a substantial impact on person's life (classroom
accommodations, state funding for services, custody, competence to stand trial)
Systemic and Interative - ✔️✔️assessment in an iterative decision-making process of
generating & refining hypotheses based on the data
screening - ✔️✔️brief measures used to detect those at risk for a disorder, issue, or condition
-ex: depression, substance abuse, suicide
intake and treatment planning - ✔️✔️clinical interview and assessment data informs treatment
decisions
-identify any diagnosis and related issues
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