Clinical psychology report

3. - CBCL includes a series of questions
concerning child’s activities,
chores, friends and grades.
- It is a device by which parents or
other individuals who know the
child well rate a child's problem
behaviors and competencies. This
instrument can either be self-
administered or administered
through an interview.
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4. - The first section of this
questionnaire consists of 20
competence items and the
second section consists of 120
items on behavior or emotional
problems during the past 6
months.
- Teacher Report Forms, Youth
Self-Reports and Direct
Observation Forms are also
available for the Child Behavior
Checklist.

5. (PARENT REPORT FORM)
(PRF)
- Parents are asked to
evaluate their children
using 3-point scale.
- Help to Measure children's
problem behaviors and
competencies and/or behavior
changes over time or after
treatment

6. TEACHER REPORT FORM (TRF)
- Teacher version of CBCL
YOUTH SELF REPORT (YRF)
- self report form for children
ages 11-18
DIRECT OBSERVATION FORM
(DOF)

7. SEMISTRUCTURED CLINICAL
INTERVIEW FOR CHILDREN
AND ADOLESCENTS (SCICA)
 use by experienced interviewers
and includes instructions, a
protocol of questions and probes,
observation and self-report forms
for rating what the child does and
says during the interview, and
profiles for scoring ratings. The
forms are scorable by the
interviewer or observers.

8. The SYMPTOM scales of CBCL:
 Anxious/Depressed
 Withdrawn/Depressed
 Language/Motor Problems
 Attention problems
 Social problems
 Aggressive/Rule Breaking
delinquent behavior
 Self-Control Problems
 Somatic Complaints

10.  The SCL-90-R instrument is used
by clinical psychologists,
psychiatrists, and professionals
in mental health, medical, and
educational settings as well as
for research purposes.
 It is a brief and multidimensional
self-report measure to screen
persons for major psychiatric
symptoms. Consist of 90 items
scored on a 5 point scale that
reflect 9 validated symptom
dimensions.

11. Administer To:
 Individuals 13 years and older
Reading Level
 6th grade
Formats
 Paper-and-pencil, audiocassette,
or computer administration

12. Scoring Options
 Q Local™ Software
 Mail-in Scoring Service
 Hand Scoring
SCALES
 9 Primary Symptom Dimensions
3 Global Indices
Norms
 Adult non-patients, Adult
psychiatric outpatients, Adult
psychiatric inpatients,
Adolescent non-patients

13. SYMPTOM Global
SCALES Indices
1. SOM  Global Severity
2. O-C Index (GSI)
3. I-S
4. DEP  Positive
5. ANX
Distress Index
(PSDI)
6. HOS
7. PHOB  Positive
8. PAR Symptom Total
9. PSY (PST)

14. It can be useful in:
 Initial evaluation of patients at
intake as an objective method for
symptom assessment
 Measuring patient progress
during and after treatment to
monitor change
 Outcomes measurement for
treatment programs and
providers through aggregated
patient information
 Clinical trials to help measure the
changes in symptoms such as
depression and anxiety

16. CONNER’S RATING
SCALES –REVISED
– Focus on the
assessment of
hyperactivity and
other child
behavioral problems

17. How to use this test:
 used for routine
screenings in schools,
mental health clinics,
residential treatment
centers, pediatric
offices, Juvenile
detention facilities,
child protective
agencies, and outpatient
settings.

18. The test can help:
 Measure hyperactivity
in children and
adolescents through
routine screening
• Establish a base point
• Provide valuable
structured and normed
information
• Provide a perspective of
the child’s behavior

19. CHILDREN’S DEPRESSION
INVENTORY
- focus on the child’s
depression and other
depressive experiences
GOLDFARB FEAR OF FAT
SCALE
- Used with eating disorder
clients

20. ASPERGER DIAGNOSTIC
SCALE
- used to evaluate ASPERGER
SYNDROME among children ages
5-18 years old.
- the child does not take the
exam. Just about anyone who
knows the child well answers
the fifty questions.

21. - Adolescent Anger Scale
- Adolescent Drinking Index
- Career Assessment Inventory
- Childhood Autism Rating Scale
- Checklist For Child Abuse
Evaluation

22. - Coping Response Inventory
- Dementia Rating Scale
- Eating Disorder Inventory
- Emotional Problems Scale
- Gulford-Zimmerman Temperament
Survey
- Hamilton Depression Inventory
- Hare Psychopathy Checklist-revised
- Health Status Questionnaire

23. - Occupational Stress Inventory-revised
- Parenting Stress Index
- Personality Assessment Inventory
- Quality Of Life Inventory
- Santa Clara Strength Of Religious Faith
Questionnaire
- State-trait Anxiety Inventory
- State-trait Anger Expression
Inventory-2

24. - Suicidal Ideation
Questionnaire
- Trauma Symptom Inventory
- West Haven-yale
Multidimentional Pain
Inventory

26. JOSE is a 17 year-old
Hispanic high school
junior. He lives with
his parents and
three siblings. Jose
identifies himself
as a homosexual.

27. Referral Question:
Parents noticed an abrupt shift
from Jose’s typically cheerful
and energetic demeanor to a
pattern of tearfulness,
lethargy, anxiety, irritability
and inability to eat or sleep
adequately.
Test administered:
- Interview, BDI, CBCL and SCL-90-R

28. BRIEF SUMMARY AND
INTERPRETAION OF RESULTS:
-Jose score on BDI places him in
the “severely depressed”
ranged of this measure.
-On the CBCL (PARENT REPORT
FORM) significant elevations
were obtained on the
anxious/depressed , attention
problems, somatic complaints
and withdrawn scale.

29. -On the SCL-90-R
significant elevation
were revealed on the
Interpersonal
Sensitivity, Depression,
Anxiety, Paranoia and
Positive Symptom
Distress Index Scales.

31. - Psychological
states such as
anxiety and stress
can be assessed
through non
invasive techniques
that measure
physiological
activity.

32. NEUROIMAGING
techniques
-(MRI) MAGNETIC RESONANCE
IMAGING
-(CAT) COMPUTERIZED
TOMOGRAPHY
-(PET) POSITION EMISSION
TOMOGRAPHY

34. POLYGRAPHS OR LIE
DETECTOR TEST
- Use to assess
physiological activities
such as blood pressure,
heart rate, respiration,
and muscle tension
which indicates levels of
arousal, stress and
anxiety.

35. Biofeedback
equipment
- Use to measure
physiological activity
- Use also to assess
people and treat
people with
overactivity of the
sympathetic nervous
system.

37. Interviews, behavioral
observations, checklist
and inventories, and
physiological measures
provide important
information that can
be used in conjunction
with other tests to
make diagnostic
conclusions and
intervention decisions.