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Diagnose/Assess Tool
Covers diagnosis and assessment tools as it relates to the LMSW Exam.
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Biopsychosocial | In crisis situations this is deemed an inappropriate means of assessment. |
| what is not said | When working with client's it is important to focus on what is said as well as...... |
| Biopsychosocial Assessment | This is a multidisciplinary approach to assessment that includes exploration of relevant biological, psychological, social, cultural, and environmental variables for the purpose of evaluating how such variables may have contributed to the problem. |
| Mental Status Exam | This is a structured approach to attain a comprehensive cross-section of the client's state of mind. |
| Mental Status Exam | This is useful in crisis situations. |
| Psychosocial Summary | This includes a statement about what brought the client to the session. |
| Reason for assessment | This drives who should be present for the initial meeting. |
| Personal Questions | The following out line how to deal with what? --Agency policy --Significance of client's question --Timeframe for assessment |
| Presenting Problem | The initial problem is usually the on the client presents with and is called the..... |
| Biopsychosocial Assessment | The following two areas need to be explored as they pertain to the problem: --Problems that are directly associated with the issue --Problems that may directly impact treatment planning, but may not be the focus on treatment This pertains to what? |
| Traditional Assessment | This assessment format seeks to develop rapport and a working relationship that will be underscored with trust, respect, dignity, and integrity. |
| Strengths Based Approach | Belief that individuals, families, and communities have strengths, assets, resources, and abilities to recover from adversity. |
| Social History | Individual or family assessment that includes information, both past and present, needed for developing an understanding of and working with clients. |
| Collateral Data | Information collected by clients on others, like families. |
| Collateral Data | For this type of data signed consent must be given in order to behave ethically and not breach confidentiality. |
| Honesty | This is the first casualty when dealing with clients who suffer from alcohol or other substance abuse disorders. |
| Biological | The biopsychosocial assessment has three sections. This is the first and it focuses on medical history, developmental history, current medications, and family history of medical illness. |
| Psychological | The biopsychosocial assessment has three sections. This is the second and it focuses on present psychiatric illness or symptoms, history of the current psychiatric illness, past/current psychosocial stressors and mental status. |
| Social | The biopsychosocial assessment has three sections. This is the last and it focuses on spirituality, cultural factors, sexual identity, personal history, family history, support system, abuse history, education, legal history, etc. |
| Evidence Based | This type of assessment approach will expedite the setting of goals and treatment planning. |
| Assessment Tools | These provide a helpful measure of an individual's function in aptitude, intelligence, personality, and behavior. |
| Wide Range Achievement Test | This assessment tool tests rapid screening, reading spelling math skills, diagnosis of a learning disability |
| Scholastic Aptitude Test | This assessment tool measures the critical thinking mathematical ,reasoning, and writing skills students need to do college level work. |
| ACT | This assessment tool measures college readiness and is a standardized test for high school achievement and college admissions in the United States |
| Graduate Record Examination | A general test that is taken to get into general studies graduate level (masters, doctorate) programs. It measures verbal reasoning, quantitative reasoning, and critical thinking and analytical writing skills. |
| General Survey Batteries | This assessment evaluates the knowledge of most subjects taught in school. |
| Single Subject Tests | This assessment measures one subject or content area. |
| Diagnostic Batteries | This assessment determines proficiencies and deficiencies in areas of reading, math, and spelling. |
| Stanford Binet Intelligence Scales | This intelligence assessment is a method of identifying intellectually deficient children for their placement in special education programs |
| Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale | This intelligence assessment is used with adults and is a general test of intelligence (IQ) and is the most widely used IQ test today. It is broken down into 14 sub tests, comprising the verbal (seven sub tests) and performance scales (seven sub tests). |
| Toni 2 | This intelligence assessment tool is a good assessment tool to use with the multicultural because all responses are nonverbal. |
| Portfolio | This is a good assessment tool to use with students to help them plan their future career goals. |
| Differential Aptitude test | This assessment tool test for verbal reasoning, numerical ability, abstract reasoning, perceptual speed and accuracy, mechanical reasoning, space relations, spelling, and language usage |
| General Aptitude Test Battery | This is an aptitude test that compromises nine different tests, ranging from vocabulary to manual dexterity |
| Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery | A multiple choice aptitude test only administered to applicants through recruiting offices via the Military Entrance Processing Station (MEPS) for members initially entering the Coast Guard. |
| Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory 2 | This is the most widely researched and clinically used of all personality tests. Originally developed to identify emotional disorders (still considered its most appropriate use), this test is now used for many other screening purposes. |
| MMPI 2 | Many symptoms + no depression= |
| Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire | A self-report inventory developed by Raymond Cattell that generates a personality profile with ratings on 16 trait dimensions. |
| Myers Briggs Type Indicator | This assessment analyzes where people get their energy from, how people see the world, how they make decisions, and how they manage time. |
| Rorschach Psychodiagnostic Test | This projective personality test utilizes ten inkblots to provide information on psychodynamic themes and aberrations. |
| Thematic Apperception Test | A projective personality test in which people express their inner feelings and interests through the stories they make up about ambiguous scenes. |
| Bender Visual Motor Gestalt Test II | This is one of the most widely used neuropsychological instruments and is frequently used with children. Children will copy geometric designs from 9 cards. |
| Dyadic Adjustment Scale | This relational test is designed to distinguish between distressed and non-distressed couples |
| Family Environment Scale | This 90 question relational scale is used to assess the social climate of family systems and determine how the characteristics of the family interact. |
| The McMaster Clinical Rating Scale | This relational test is based on a family interview and assesses communication, problem solving, effective responsiveness, effective involvement, roles of each family member, overall health or pathology of the family, and behavior control. |
| Family Assessment Device | This is a 60-item questionnaire designed to evaluate family functioning on seven dimensions which are problem solving, communication, roles, affective responsiveness, affective involvement, behavior control and general functioning. |
| Childhood Autism Rating Scale | This test determines the severity of autism and distinguishes children with autism from children with developmental delays who do not have autism. Best for children 3-11 yr. |
| Children's Apperception Test | This is a test that provides examination of social emotional components of personality. The test consists of showing a child 10 images of animals engaged in various social situations. Best for children 3-10 yr. |
| Children's Depression Inventory | This is a 27 item test in which children describe their feelings over the course of the last 2 weeks and is used when depression is suspected. Best for children 6-17 yr. |
| Conners Rating Scale | Can be used to screen for ADHD and other behavioral problems in a child who is 3-17 yr. Has different versions which can be used across the lifespan and can therefore be used to assess response to treatment. |
| Draw a Person Test | Child is asked to draw 3 pictures: a man, woman and themselves Nonverbal test of intelligence Used for children 3-17 Frequently used as an ice-breaker and/or when verbal expression is difficult Though not timed, it takes approximately 10 - 15 minutes |
| Kinetic Family Drawing | In this Test: --Child is asked to draw a picture of everyone in the family doing something, termed 'kinetic drawings' --Helps assess self-perception, family relationships and dynamics of family interaction --There is no time limit |
| Matrix Analogies Test | In this Test: --Child is asked to identify patterns in designs --Nonverbal test of reasoning abilities used when language may affect assessment --Generally used for children ages 5 - 17 --Maximum time limit of 48 minutes |
| Revised Children's Manifest Anxiety Scale | In this Test: --Child circles "yes" or "no" to 37 written statements describing feelings or behavior --Assessment of anxiety in children ages 6-19 --Takes 5 - 10 minutes |
| Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales | --Survey Interview Form, Parent/Caregiver completes rating scale measuring behaviors as does the Teacher (for those age 3 through 21 years/eleven-months) -- Assesses performance of developmentally appropriate life skills |
| Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children IV | In this Test --Child answers questions verbally in 6 different subtests of the Verbal Scale --Child performs tasks in 7 different subtests of the Performance Scale --Determines learning ability of children ages 6 through 16-11 mths --Used to determin |
| Work Values Inventory | This inventory measures emphasis the individual places upon values such as altruism, aesthetics, creativity and intellectual stimulation |
| Work Environment Preference Schedule | This inventory measures a person's adaptability to a bureaucratic environment is measured by this schedule |
| Career Development Inventory | This inventory evaluates readiness for exploration, planning orientation, information gathering and decision-making |
| BRIEF INTAKE INTERVIEW | This is an interview assessment that is based on observation and focuses on the client's appearance, concerns, symptoms, stress, medical problems, living situation, occupation, support network, and lifelong patterns. |
| Mental Status Exam | This exam takes into account a client's appearance, motor activity, interpersonal communication, facial expressions, behavior, state of consciousness, speech, mood and affect, orientation and intellectual ability, attention and concentration, memory, thou |
| Time Person Place | When someone is oriented x3 this means they are aware of............... |
| Year Week Month Date | When someone is oriented x4 this means they are aware of...... |
| Proverbs | These are one of the simplest and best ways of getting information about concrete versus abstract reasoning ability. |
| Eco systemic Theory | Also referred to as Bronfenbrenner's Ecological Theory, this theory puts forth the belief that human development is reflective of environmental systems. |
| micro system | This context includes the family, school, friends, peers and the neighborhood. In this setting, the individual has the most direct forms of social interactions, such as with parents, partners or teachers. The person is not a passive element in the environ |
| meso system | This is the relationship between micro-systems or link between contexts. This is played out in the relationship between the family experience and school experience, school experiences to sports experiences, sports experiences to church experiences, and ch |
| exo system | This involves connections between the person's immediate context and someone in a setting where the person does not have an active role. |
| macro system | This is the context of the person's culture where they live. This includes such things as relative poverty or wealth, socioeconomic status, ethnicity, religion, political system and developing and industrialized countries. |
| chrono system | This involves the pattern of environmental transitions and events over the individual's life, including socio-historical events and circumstances. |
| Halo Effect | This refers to the bias, or outside influence, which occurs when one characteristic of a person, or one factor in a test situation, effects or sways the tester's evaluation of the subject's other traits. The evaluator forms an impression of the person bei |
| Hawthorne Effect | Typically, this experimental effect involves some desire, on the part of the test subject, to impress the tester. This can occur because the subject's behavior changes specifically when they know they are being evaluated or if they become sensitized via p |
| Rosenthal Effect | In this experimental effect, students tend to "internalize" the expectations of their superiors; high expectations lead to improved performance. |
| Demand Characteristics | In this experimental effect the subject behaves according to what he thinks the experimenter expects. |
| Client Logs | An instrument that has a way to track the date, time, a general description of an event, what immediately followed or preceded it, what the client thought/felt/did, and who was present. |
| Self Anchored Scales | A scale that allows the client to rate him/herself in regards to emotions, thoughts, feelings, behaviors, etc. |
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