MentalStatusExaminationAffectandMood精神状态检查影响和心情.pptVIP

Mental Status Examination Affect and Mood Affect: An individual’s outward expression of emotion. Mental Status Examination Affect and Mood Mood: An individual’s personal experience of emotion. Mental Status Examination Mental Status Examination Psychological Testing What Makes a Good Psychological Test? What is intelligence? How do we interpret IQ test results? Does a low score on an IQ test mean someone is not smart? Factors that can affect test outcome besides IQ What do we make of differences in scores between different ethnic groups? African-Americans (as a group) are not as smart as Caucasians and Asians IQ tests are biased vs. certain groups IQ tests predominantly measure academically-oriented skills. Groups with less access to learning these skills will do more poorly on IQ tests What about IQ tests that are supposed to be “Culture-free”? Personality and Diagnostic Testing MMPI and MMPI-2 NEO Personality Inventory MCMI-III * Inappropriate Restricted Range Intensity Blunted or Flat Exaggerated, Heightened, or Overdramatic Mobility (decreased/excessive) Euthymic = Neither happy nor sad Dysphoric = Unpleasant feelings Euphoric = Cheerful, elated, possibly even ecstatic Motivation Motivational impairment can make even ordinary life tasks seem insurmountable. Sense of Self Disturbances of the individual’s sense of “who I am” include: depersonalization identity confusion Cognitive Functioning: Level of intelligence evidence by details such as memory and abstract ability. Problems might include memory impairment associated with Alzheimer’s Insight and Judgment: Understanding and decision making. Validity Predictive Content Reliability Standardization Verbal Thinking Are you a creative and skilled writer? Skilled reader? Spatial Skills Are you good at visualizing through verbal instructions? Blueprints? Logical Mathematical Skills Has math always come easy to you? Are you good at deductive rea