Assignment: Assessment Tools

Assignment: Assessment Tools

Do you believe assessment tools are a hindrance (user error, false positives), or do they enhance a clinician’s ability to diagnose correctly? To support your response, provide an example of an assessment tool, and describe the tool’s benefits and challenges. Discussion: Assessment Tools

Below are four resources to use for the discussion.

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Discussion: Assessment Tools

Article: Guidelines for Adolescent Depression in Primary Care https://web.archive.org/web/20150225071221/http://healthteamworks-media.precis5.com/1ecfb463472ec9115b10c292ef8bc986

Article: Treatment of Maladaptive Aggression in Youth http://www.thereachinstitute.org/images/pdfs/T-MAY-final.pdf

Article: Mental Health Screening and Assessment Tools for Children: Literature Review https://web.archive.org/web/20130626210634/http://humanservices.ucdavis.edu/Academy/pdf/FINAL2MentalHealthLitReview.pdf

Website: Table of Screening Tools and Rating Scales https://web.archive.org/web/20160811113549/http://www2.massgeneral.org/schoolpsychiatry/screeningtools_table.asp

In an era of evidence-based practice, why are clinicians not typically engaged in evidence-based assessment? To begin to understand this issue, a national multidisciplinary survey was conducted to examine clinician attitudes toward standardized assessment tools. 1442 child clinicians provided opinions about the psychometric qualities of these tools, their benefit over clinical judgment alone, and their practicality. Doctoral-level clinicians and psychologists expressed more positive ratings in all three domains than master’s-level clinicians and non-psychologists respectively, although only the disciplinary differences remained significant when predictors were examined simultaneously. All three attitude scales were predictive of standardized assessment tool use, although practical concerns were the strongest and only independent predictor of use.

Discussion: Assessment Tools

Assignment Content

1. Create a 10- to 12-slide PowerPoint® presentation that discusses Freud, Erikson, and two other psychoanalytic or neo-psychoanalytic theorists.Discuss the following in your presentation:
   • Why was Freud’s work so influential?
   • How did the analysts that followed Freud dissent from his viewpoint?
   • What links the theorists in the psychoanalytic theory group?
   • What are three or more psychoanalytic concepts relevant to today’s culture? Explain their relevance and provide an example of each.

Aligned with assessment (2)

• 2.22.2 Evaluate current research studies that address psychoanalytic concepts.Goal Set & CategoryPSYCH_645Course Objective
• 2.32.3 Evaluate the influence of Freud’s theories on contemporary personality theory.Goal Set & CategoryPSYCH_645Course Objective