Xacc/280 Week 9 Final Paper

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1. What is the purpose of psychological assessment? The purpose of psychological assessment is to gather information on the person’s behavior, emotions, and thoughts. By focusing on why and in what way a person is behaving abnormally, will help determine how the person may be helped.
2. What is a clinical interview and how is it different from clinical tests? A clinical interview is the first face to face interaction with the patient. During this interaction information is gathered on feelings, lifestyle, past history, and relationships in order to focus on the deeper meanings and importance behind all of them. Behavior is observed throughout the interview as well. There are two forms of clinical interviews the first is unstructured that includes open-ended questions for the patient to open up the conversation and lead by
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The client will draw stick figures and the proportions, background, and number of figures are all taken into account in the evaluation of the drawing. B. Personality Inventories
Personality inventories the client assesses themselves by using statements reflecting beliefs, feelings, and behaviors. This approach allows the client to have control and for the clinician to uses the responses to draw a conclusion.
1. MMPI is the most well know and used. What are the scales of the MMPI? Describe each scales with a few words
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) uses 10 scales when working with clients to reflect their beliefs, feelings, and behaviors. Each statement of each scale can be answered by true or false and cannot say.
Hypochondriasis scale shows statements of pain/discomfort experienced from the body
Depression scale shows statements of pessimistic thoughts
Hysteria scale shows statements of physical/mental symptoms to avoid expressing true emotions and thoughts
Psychopathic deviate scale shows statements of social settings that produce