Sentences with phrase «evaluated psychological symptoms»

Not exact matches

It still defines «psychological testing» as only the use of assessment instruments to diagnose mental and nervous disorders, and it keeps intact the explicit exemptions allowing MFTs to use tests that evaluate marital and family functioning and to use mental health symptom screening instruments, and so it does not cause us any harm.

And because the psychologists a) defined «psychological testing» as only those tests used to diagnose mental and nervous disorders, thereby allowing non-psychologists to use any assessment instruments — such as the Myers - Briggs — that are not intended to arrive at a diagnosis; and b) included exemptions that explicitly recognize our authority to use tests that evaluate marital and family functioning — which is part of our Scope of Practice — and to use mental health symptom screening instruments — such as the Beck Depression Inventory — which MFTs often employ to make referral or treatment decisions, it made sense to limit «psychological testing» to psychologists.

Developing and evaluating psychological interventions to prevent and treat these symptoms is, therefore, an important clinical and research priority.

Psychological assessments combine multiple methods for evaluating an individual, and are extremely beneficial for gaining a deeper understanding of symptoms, clarifying diagnoses, and determining the best treatment to address a specific problem.

The defendant is then evaluated by The Program to determine whether the mental health criteria is satisfied; evaluations include The Program's preferred interview and psychological assessment battery, which examines symptom validity, psychiatric symptoms, cognitive ability, and risk factors.

The Symptom Checklist - 90 Revised (SCL -90-R; Derogatis, 1977; Italian version by Sarno et al., 2011) is a brief questionnaire designed to evaluate the presence of psychological distress and a range of psychopathological symptoms.

Psychological Review, 96, 358 — 372, 1989), were examined to evaluate whether a negative inferential style about cause, consequence, and self interacted with stressors over time to predict prospective elevations in depressive symptoms specifically compared with typically co-occurring symptoms.

As suggested by others, 1 14 health practitioners evaluating students with common psychological and psychosomatic symptoms should consider bullying and the student's school environment as a potential cause.

Most parenting research has assessed the efficacy of social support by evaluating relationships between retrospective measures of social support processes and general measures of psychological distress (i.e., depressive symptoms, stress).