Describe the three primary goals of clinical assessment procedures, and give an example of each
Answer:
(1) making predictions: will this person engage in violence if he or she is released from jail? (2) plan interventions: does this person have the intelligence level necessary to benefit from insight-oriented therapy? (3) evaluate treatment effectiveness: has this person's depression decreased over the course of therapy?
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A. independent variable B. dependent variable C. experimental effect D. correlation