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Chapter Overview:
Methods of Assessment
The most widely used method of assessment, the clinical interview, involves the
use of a set of questions designed to elicit relevant information from people
seeking treatment. Clinicians generally use a structured interview, which consists
of a fairly standard series of questions to gather a wide range of information
concerning presenting problems or complaints, present circumstances, and
history.
Psychological Tests
Intelligence Tests
Tests of intelligence, like the Stanford-Binet and the Wechsler scales, are used
for various purposes in clinical assessment, including determining evidence of
mental retardation or cognitive impairment, and assessing strengths and
weaknesses. Intelligence is expressed in the form of an intelligence quotient (IQ).
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Personality Tests
Projective personality tests such as the Rorschach and TAT, ask subjects to
interpret ambiguous stimuli in the belief that their answers may shed light on the
unconscious processes. Concerns persist about the validity of these tests,
however.
Neuropsychological Assessment
Cognitive Assessment
Physiological Measurement
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), is the most
widely accepted diagnostic system, now in its fourth edition. Another widely used
system is the International Classification of Diseases (ICD) published by the
World Health Organization. Now, in its tenth edition, and with Canadian
enhancements and modifications, the system is known as the ICD-10-CA, which
has been adopted as the Canadian standard for coding, reporting, and tracking
health information.
Methods of Treatment
Psychodynamic Therapies
Behaviour Therapy
Humanistic-Existential Therapies
Cognitive-Behavioural Therapies
Eclectic Therapy
Family therapists work with conflicted families to help them resolve their
differences. Family therapists focus on clarifying family communications,
resolving role conflicts, guarding against scapegoating individual members, and
helping members develop greater autonomy. Marital therapists focus on helping
couples improve their communications and resolve their differences.
Computer-Assisted Therapy
The legal process by which people are placed in psychiatric institutions against
their will is called psychiatric or civil commitment. Psychiatric commitment is
intended to provide treatment to people who are deemed to suffer from mental
disorders and to pose a threat to themselves or others. Legal or criminal
commitment, by comparison, involves the placement of a person in a psychiatric
institution for treatment who has been acquitted of a crime by reason of insanity.
In voluntary hospitalization, people voluntarily seek treatment in a psychiatric
facility, and can leave of their own accord, unless a court rules otherwise.
Predicting Dangerousness
Three court cases established legal precedents for the insanity defence. In 1834,
a court in Ohio applied a principle of irresistible impulse as the basis of an
insanity defense. The M’Naughten rule, based on a case in England in 1843,
treated the failure to appreciate the wrongfulness of one’s action as the basis of
legal insanity. People who are criminally committed may be hospitalized for an
indefinite period of time, with their eventual release dependent on a
determination of their mental status.
People who are accused of crimes but are incapable of understanding the
charges against them or assisting in their own defence can be found incompetent
to stand trial and remanded to a psychiatric facility.
Systems of Classification 41
Methods of Assessment 41
The Clinical Interview 41
Psychological Tests of Intelligence and
Personality 43
Neuropsychological Assessment 51
Behavioural Assessment 52
Cognitive Assessment 54
Physiological Measurement 56
Probing the Workings of the Brain 56
REVIEW IT Methods of Assessment 58
Methods of Treatment 66
Types of Mental Health Professionals in Canada 67
Biological Therapies 68
Deep Brain Stimulation 72
Psychodynamic Therapies 72
Behaviour Therapy 75
Humanistic-Existential Therapies 76
Cognitive-Behaviour Therapies 78
Eclectic Therapy 81
Group, Family, and Marital Therapy 81
Computer-Assisted Therapy 82
Does Psychotherapy Work? 83
REVIEW IT Methods of Treatment 87
CONCEPT MAP 96
9. Describe the features of the DSM system and evaluate its strengths and
weaknesses.
11. Describe the legal procedures for psychiatric commitment and the
safeguards to prevent abuses of psychiatric commitment.
13. Discuss the problem faced by psychologists and other professionals who
are given the task of attempting to predict dangerousness.
14. Discuss the legal basis of the right to treatment and right to refuse
treatment.
15. Discuss landmark cases that establish the legal precedents for the
insanity plea.
18. Discuss the “duty to warn” obligation for therapists and describe the
landmark case on which it is based.
B. The formulas in many cases are more accurate than the clinicians.
Needless to say, such conclusions have not sat well with clinicians. The
clinicians have argued that there is more to understanding a client than just his or
her test scores—formulas cannot make behaviour observations.
A more moderate conclusion is that while some clinical tasks can clearly be
automated, it is probably best in most cases to combine clinical and statistical
methods. Statistics are not a replacement for a clinician, but a tool the clinician
can use.
Furthermore, each clinician may interpret the same data in different ways.
Therefore, it is often advisable to supplement the clinical interview with personal
and family data, as well as other methods of assessment, such as standardized
personality tests.
4. Classifying abnormal behaviours. Have students discuss the pros and cons of
classifying abnormal behaviours. You might point out the advantages of the
DSM-IV over earlier approaches, especially the shift away from the
psychodynamic assumptions of causality to a more descriptive and cause-neutral
approach. Yet critics point out that any system of classification greatly restricts
the amount of information included about the person, overlooks the individual’s
uniqueness, and results in social stigmas. You might begin this discussion by
simply asking “Why do we need a system for classifying abnormal behaviours?”
and move the discussion from there to the various pros and cons of such a
system.
5. Intelligence tests. Ask students for their opinions about intelligence tests,
including theft usefulness and limitations. Because of the controversy
surrounding intelligence testing, clinicians now use these tests more selectively,
preferably along with other measures. Intelligence tests may be useful in a
number of ways, including the high correlation between measures of intelligence
and standardized achievement test scores. Yet, such tests also may be culturally
biased and might be misinterpreted, especially in the case of individuals from
culturally diverse or disadvantaged backgrounds.
6. Personality tests. Discuss the usefulness of personality tests from the client’s
perspective. Ask volunteers to share their experiences in getting results of a
personality or career inventory. A common misunderstanding of career
inventories such as the Strong-Campbell Interest Inventory (SCII) is that this
instrument tells us which careers we should choose. But in reality, the results
indicate which clusters of careers tend to be most compatible with our interests,
and thus those in which we are most likely to persist, but not the ones that we
should choose.
8. Personality tests and job screening. A somewhat disturbing trend that appears
to be increasing in recent years is the tendency of companies to use personality
tests, such as the MMPI in their applicant screening process for new hires. Ask
students to discuss the pros and cons of using personality tests in this situation.
In discussing the cons, you might point out that tests like the MMPI were not
really designed to be administered on a massive scale to a “normal” population
and might pose a significant problem of “false positives” when used this way.
Also, there is the related issue of personnel departments not always having
employees who are properly trained to interpret the subtleties that are often
involved in understanding the meaning of the scores provided by many of these
tests. Should these tests be used in these situations to begin with? What are the
dangers in having tests like these administered and interpreted by employees
with often minimal training in the meaning of the scores?
10. The disadvantages of the DSM approach. As your text notes, not everyone
has been happy with the multiaxial approach and the philosophy introduced with
the DSM-III in 1980. One such critic has been George Valliant, who found five
problems with this DSM approach:
A. The DSM ignores other cultures and is too anchored in American ideas.
B. The DSM ignores the fact that most diagnoses reflect dimensions and not
categories. He states “pregnancy is a black-and-white diagnosis,
schizophrenia is not.”
E. DSM sacrifices validity for the sake of reliability. Valiant likens the DSM’s
emphasis on being objective to drafting all seven footers for pro
basketball—it is a very reliable method, but ignores the more crucial skill
of ball handling.
In particular, you might discuss with the class Valiant’s second objection. Many
others have criticized DSM for pigeon-holing people into categories when many
problems and behaviours are on a continuum. Ask the class how they would
design DSM-V?
11. The fundamental attribution error. Social scientists tend to regard human
behaviour as resulting from the interaction between the individual’s dispositional
tendencies (intentions, traits, etc.) and his or her situational influences or
immediate environment. However, when it comes to explaining behaviour, social
scientists are well aware of the biases in the way we interpret behaviour,
depending mainly on whether it’s our own or someone else’s behaviour.
According to the fundamental attribution error, we tend to overemphasize
personal, or dispositional, causes in accounting for other people’s behaviour, but
underemphasize these causes for our own behaviour. Expressed differently, we
readily excuse our behaviour because of unfavorable circumstances, while
jumping to unwarranted conclusions about other people’s motives in similar
behaviours and circumstances. Thus, when speaking about ourselves, we use
words that denote our actions and reactions to a situation, such as “I get angry
when” and I become violent wi-zen.” But when talking about someone else, we
generally use words that describe that person’s traits or personality, such as “He
has such a bad temper” or “She is a violent person” (McGuire and McGuire,
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1986, 51, pp. 1135-1143). The risk
of the fundamental attribution error occurs when jury members must decide
whether an act of violence such as an assault or shooting was malicious (due to
dispositional factors) or in self-defense (situational influences).
12. The impact of malpractice litigation. The exorbitant rise in insurance rates in
the 1980s and 1990s and the increased frequency of malpractice cases brought
against professionals have had a mixed impact on mental health care. On the
one hand, these changes have alerted mental-health professionals to become
more conscientious about making risk assessments in their clients, to balance
confidentiality with the need to warn, and to assure continuation of care. All these
changes are in the best interest of the client as well as the professional.
15. The insanity plea. Discuss the insanity plea. How do students feel about a
person accused of a vicious crime being declared “not guilty by reason of
insanity?” What are the pros and cons of the alternative “guilty but mentally ill”
verdict? What would be the pros and cons of scrapping the insanity defence
entirely?
Do students feel that most people accused of crimes get off on the insanity
defence? They don’t! Only a small percentage of criminals use the defence, and
only a small percentage of them use the defence successfully. Do students feel
that people who are found not guilty by reason of insanity spend less time in
In discussing this, you might consider that recently one state legislature passed a
bill requiring that psychiatrists and psychologists giving testimony in court cases
wear a tall conical hat and wave a “magic” wand during their testimony.
Fortunately the bill was vetoed by the governor. What do actions like this say
about the public’s perception of the “expertise” of psychologists and psychiatrists
giving “expert” testimony in court? How has the insanity plea contributed to these
perceptions?
Student Activities:
4. Design an outcome study. Break the class into groups and give them the task
of designing a research study to evaluate a psychotherapy technique. They are
to consider therapist and technique variables, control groups, measures of
outcome, and follow-ups. Let the group report their designs and use this to
discuss some of the complexities of research the text authors describe.
6. The MMPI-2. Ask students to jot down their true or false responses to the
following statements: “I never read the comics,” “I am an important person,” “1
usually get nervous before an important exam.” Then ask how many students
answered “true” to the statement “I am an important person.” Originally, this item
was designed as a measure of self-importance and grandiosity in the earlier
versions of the MMPI, with fewer than 1 out of 10 respondents in a normal
sample endorsing it over 50 years ago. However, the connotations of this
statement have changed with the times, especially due to social changes and the
human potential movement of the past two decades. Today, S out of 10 males
and 7 out of 10 females endorse this statement. As a result, people’s responses
to such test items were reexamined in the re-standardization project that
produced the revised MMPI or MMPI-2.
8. Designing an assessment program. Break students into groups. Then tell them
that they have been chosen to design an assessment program for a community
mental health center. Students can discuss the types of problems they are most
likely to encounter in this setting and discuss the sort of assessment instruments
they might make available to their clinicians. They might also discuss how they
would evaluate the reliability and validity of the diagnoses made by their
1155. On this word see p. 323 supra; cf. Chavannes et Pelliot, op.
cit. 1ère ptie, p. 542, n. 2, which seems to summarize all that
there is to be said about it, and p. 342 infra.
1157. This was the name of the owner, which was Raimast Parzind
in the Tun-huang text of Sir Marc Stein.
1161. The words “of the Messenger” [God] are not in Prof. von Le
Coq’s version.
1162. Cf. Chavannes et Pelliot, op. cit. 1ère ptie, pp. 503, n. 1. On
this being mentioned in a paper in the J.R.A.S. 1913, Dr F.
Denison Ross said that he thought the date should be put 300
years later, J. cit. p. 81. He has since withdrawn this (J.R.A.S.
1913, pp. 434-436).
1165. Ormuzd, “the whole circuit of the sky,” although he calls him,
more Graecorum, Zeus, “the sun and moon, the earth, fire,
water and the winds,” were “the only gods whose worship had
come down to the Persians from ancient times” in the days of
Herodotus. Cf. Herodotus, Bk I. c. 131.
1170. The Past, Present and Future, called the “Three Moments” in
the Tun-huang treatise. See Chavannes et Pelliot, op. cit. 11me
ptie, pp. 114, 116.
1177. The word vusanti does not seem to be explained by Prof. von
Le Coq. Has it any connection with the Sanskrit vasanta
“spring”? In that case, the 50 days fast may have been
continuous like the Christian Lent and the Mahommedan
Ramadan. But it seems more likely that it refers to the weekly
fast on Sunday which, the Fihrist notwithstanding, seems to
have been incumbent on all the Manichaeans, Elect and
Hearers alike. So Chavannes et Pelliot, op. cit. 2me ptie, p.
111, n. 2. See n. 4, p. 349 infra.
1178. Prof. von Le Coq says (J.R.A.S. 1911, p. 307) that this word is
as yet unexplained and may belong to another language than
Turkish. One is almost tempted to see in it a corruption of the
Yom Kippur or Day of Atonement of the Jews. Judaism is the
last religion from which the Manichaeans would have
consciously borrowed; but the Jews have always taken their
goods where they found them, and it may well be that both
Jews and Manichaeans were here drawing from a common
source.
1182. So Baur, op. cit. This was doubtless true in the West and in
lands where they were exposed to severe persecution.
1183. This explains its translation from its original Pahlavi into the
language of the converts and each copy bearing the name of
the owner.
1184. See Cumont, Cosmog. Manich. p. 56, for authorities. Cf. also
de Stoop, op. cit. p. 22. As has been many times said above,
every religion and sect at the time accused the others of these
filthy practices, without our being able to discern any proof of
the justice of the accusation in one case more than in another.
In any case, St Augustine, here the chief authority, could not
have known of it at first hand, as he had never been more
than a Hearer, and he himself says (contra Fortunatum, Bk I.
App.) that while he had heard that the Elect celebrated the
Eucharist, he knew nothing of the mode of celebration. Cf.
Neander, Ch. Hist. II. p. 193.
1202.
Nowhere is this curious theory, which forms the base of most
Mediaeval Cabala and magic, more clearly stated. Thus the
Tun-huang treatise says in describing the fashioning of the
body of man by the devils (as in the Μέρος τευχῶν Σωτῆρος),
“there is not a single formation of the universe (or cosmos)
which they did not imitate in the carnal body” (Chavannes et
Pelliot, op. cit. 1ère ptie, p. 527); and in the next page “The
demon ... shut up the five natures of Light in the carnal body
of which he made a little universe (microcosm).”
ère
1203.
Chavannes et Pelliot, op. cit. 1 ptie, p. 514.
1204.
Op. cit. pp. 528, 529.
1205.
Their Chinese names are discussed by MM. Chavannes and
Pelliot (op. cit. 1ère ptie, pp. 521, n. 1, 542, n. 1, 543, nn. 1, 2,
and 544, n. 1), wherein are gathered nearly all that can be
said about them. The learned commentators decide that their
functions still remain mysterious. But see next note infra.
1206.
W. Radloff, Chuastuanift, das Bussgebet der Manichäer, St
Petersburg, 1909, pt I. pp. 19, 20. Von Le Coq, J.R.A.S. 1911,
p. 294: “when the Gods Kroshtag and Padwakhtag, the
Appellant and Respondent, should have brought to us that
part of the light of the Fivefold God that, going to God, is there
to be purified.” One is inclined to compare this with Jeû and
Melchizidek receiving and purifying the light won from this
world, or with Gabriel and Michael in the Pistis Sophia bearing
the heroine upward out of Chaos; but the parallel may be
accidental and is easily pushed too far.
1207.
Like the “Twin Saviours” of the Pistis Sophia, whose functions
are never even alluded to in that document.
1208.
See notes 2 and 3, p. 327 supra.
1209.
M. de Stoop’s Essai sur la Diffusion du Manichéisme is most
informing on this head. See also A. Dufourcq’s Thesis quoted
in n. 2, p. 351 supra. A very brief summary of the history of
the sect was given by the present writer in J.R.A.S. 1913, pp.
69-94.
1210.
For the enquiry by Strategius, afterwards called Musonianus,
and Prefect of the East under Constantius, see Ammianus
Marcellinus, Bk XV. c. 13. Cf. Neander, Ch. Hist. IV. 488 sqq.
That the persecution instituted against them by Diocletian
slackened under Constantine and Constantius, see de Stoop,
op. cit. pp. 40, 41.
1212.
Gibbon, Decline and Fall, III. p. 153. Justinian put to death not
only convicted Manichaeans, but those who being acquainted
with members of the sect, did not denounce them. See de
Stoop, op. cit. p. 43.
1213.
The Manichaeans seem always to have been favoured by the
better classes and high officials of the Empire who maintained
for some time a secret leaning towards Paganism. See de
Stoop, op. cit. p. 84. The case of Barsymès, the banker or
money-changer whom Theodora made Praetorian Prefect,
and who was allowed according to Procopius (Anecdota, c.
XXII. 7) to profess Manichaeism openly, was doubtless only
one of many. It is apparently this Barsymès who is invoked in
the Turfan texts as “the Lord Bar Simus,” see Müller,
Handschriften-Reste, pp. 45, 59.
1214.
That this was the professed policy of the sect seems plain
from the words they attributed to Manes himself: “I am not
inhuman like Christ who said: Whoso denieth me, him will I
deny. I say unto you: Whoso denieth me before man and
saves himself by this falsehood, him will I receive with joy, as
if he had not denied me.” Cf. de Stoop, op. cit. p. 46, quoting
Cedrenus; Al Bîrûnî, Chronology, p. 191.
1215.
Von Le Coq, Exploration Archéologique à Tourfan, Confces
au Musée Guimet (Bibl. de Vulg. t. XXXV.), 1910, p. 278.
1216.
de Stoop, op. cit. pp. 86, 144.
1217.
Neander, Ch. Hist. III. pp. 34, 35.
1218.
Op. cit. III. p. 46.
1219.
Sozomen, Hist. Eccl. Bk V. c. 5, for instances. Cf. Neander,
op. cit. III. pp. 66, 67.
1220.
Neander, op. cit. III. p. 96.
1221.
Op. cit. III. p. 100.
1222.
S. Dill, Roman Society in the Last Century of the Western
Empire, pp. 143-166.
1223.
Eusebius, Vita Constantini, Bk III. cc. 64, 65.
1224.
Op. cit. c. 66.
Transcriber’s Notes:
Footnotes have been collected at the end of the text, and are
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