What tools does a clinician have to collect information on a person with a mental disorder?
What will be an ideal response?
A clinical assessment involves a systematic evaluation of an individual's various psychological, biological, and social factors, as well as identification of past and present
problems, stressors, and other cognitive or behavioral symptoms. Mental health professionals use one or more of three major techniques—neurological exams, clinical interviews, and psychological tests—to do clinical assessments.
Neurological Tests
These tests might include evaluating reflexes, brain structures, and brain functions. Neurological exams are part of a clinical assessment because a variety of abnormal psychological symptoms may be caused by tumors, diseases, or infections of the brain. Neurological tests are used to distinguish physical or organic causes (such as tumors) from psychological ones (such as strange beliefs).
The clinical interview is one method of gathering information about a person's past and current behaviors, beliefs, attitudes, emotions, and problems. Some clinical interviews are unstructured, which means they have no set questions; others are structured, which means they follow a standard format of asking a similar set of questions.
Personality tests include two diff event kinds of tests: objective tests (self-report questionnaires), such as the MMPI, which consist of specific statements or questions to which the person responds with specific answers, and projective tests, such as the Rorschach inkblot
test, which have no set answers but consist of ambiguous stimuli that a person interprets or makes up a story about. Personality tests help clinicians evaluate a person's traits, attitudes,
emotions, and beliefs.
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