Psychological Assessment of Children and Adolescents
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Course Introduction
This course provides an in-depth exploration of the principles, methods, and ethical considerations involved in the psychological assessment of children and adolescents. Students will learn about various standardized tests, observational strategies, and clinical interviewing techniques used to evaluate cognitive, emotional, behavioral, and social functioning in young populations. Emphasis is placed on understanding developmental norms, cultural and contextual factors, and the interpretation and communication of assessment results. Through case studies and practical exercises, students gain hands-on experience in integrating assessment data to inform diagnosis, intervention, and treatment planning for children and adolescents in diverse settings.
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Introduction to Abnormal Child and Adolescent Psychology 3rd Edition by Robert Weis
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Chapter 1: The Science and Practice of Abnormal Child Psychology
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Q1) Marvin has always displayed depressive symptoms and both of his parents suffer from depressive disorders.Marissa has no family history of depression and only began to show depressive symptoms after the death of her father.If both Marvin and Marissa are diagnosed with the same depressive disorder,this is an example of ______.
A) multifinality
B) homotypic continuity
C) equifinality
D) individual differences
Answer: C
Q2) Based on the best available data,20% of youth in the United States currently suffer from a mental or behavioral disorder.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) Explain Wakefield's (1992)concept of "harmful dysfunction."
Answer: Must have both (a)dysfunction,a failure in some internal mechanism to work in an adaptive way (the way it was naturally selected to operate)and (b)this dysfunction must cause harm (limit or threaten the person in some way).
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Chapter 2: The Causes of Childhood Disorders: A Levels of Analysis Approach
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Q1) Which of the following is NOT a primary advantage of MRI over CT,as described in your text?
A) MRI does not subject individuals to radiation.
B) MRI is safe enough to be used repeatedly with healthy children.
C) MRI yields clearer and more precise pictures of the brain.
D) MRI scans take much less time than CT scans do.
Answer: D
Q2) What is the strange situation designed to test?
A) emotion reactivity
B) attachment
C) temperament
D) internal working models
Answer: B
Q3) The primary shift toward intimate romantic relationships entails ______.
A) developing vulnerability
B) developing love
C) viewing partners as autonomous and with intrinsic worth
D) viewing rejection as a part of relationships
Answer: C
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Chapter 3: Assessment and Diagnosis
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Q1) Mikhail is deliberately lying about other children and tearing up their work in the classroom.He has been repeatedly sent to the principal and his teacher is concerned about the effects of the disruptive behavior on the other students in the class.Which of the following would be the primary reason for assessment in Mikhail's case?
A) to screen him for a disorder
B) to reach a diagnosis
C) to plan treatment
D) to remove him from the situation entirely and permanently
Answer: C
Q2) Which of the following is NOT true of clinically significant impairment?
A) It is required for diagnosis of almost every disorder in the DSM-5.
B) It is considered by some to be a vague term.
C) Clinically significant impairment is the kind of impairment that a clinician considers severe enough to need treatment.
D) It is synonymous with impairment in work functioning.
Answer: D
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Chapter 4: Treating Children, Adolescents, and Families
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Q1) Which of the following was NOT considered to be a necessary and sufficient condition for therapeutic change,according to Carl Rogers?
A) therapeutic ritual
B) unconditional positive regard
C) congruence
D) empathy
Q2) A goal of cognitive therapy is not to think positively,but instead to view the world more realistically.
A)True
B)False
Q3) According to Adlerian Family Therapy,which is NOT a reason disruptive behavior might occur?
A) to gain attention
B) to gain objects or favors
C) to get even with others
D) to be left alone
Q4) Why might it be preferable to prescribe nonstimulant medication for ADHD to adolescents than stimulant medication?
Q5) What is the dodo verdict?
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Chapter 5: Intellectual Disability and Developmental
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Q1) Which of the following is NOT a way a fetus or child might be exposed to lead in toxic amounts?
A) if a mother is exposed to lead during gestation
B) if a mother was exposed to lead in childhood and adolescence and consumes too much calcium during pregnancy
C) if a mother was exposed to lead in childhood and adolescence and consumes too little calcium during pregnancy
D) if a child ingests lead-based paint
Q2) Every night,Melinda throws the utensils when asked to set the dinner table.Which of the following is true?
A) Having Melinda pick up the utensils, wash them, and reset the table would be an example of overcorrection.
B) Having Melinda practice setting the table in the morning would be an example of positive practice because it comes before the anticipated unacceptable behavior of that evening.
C) Having Melinda no longer set the table would be an example of negative punishment. D) Ignoring Melinda's outburst would be a response cost.
Q3) Provide an example of universal design in the classroom.
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Chapter 6: Autism Spectrum Disorder
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Q1) Joint attention symbolic play engagement and regulation (JASPER)relies on what approach?
A) cognitive behavioral therapy
B) scaffolding
C) discrete trial training
D) reciprocal imitation training (RIT)
Q2) Which of the following is NOT a finding of prospective studies of infants later diagnosed with ASD?
A) Eighteen-month-olds later diagnosed with ASD spend less time looking at others' faces.
B) Eighteen -month olds later diagnosed with ASD spend less time initiating social interactions with caregivers.
C) Eighteen -month-olds later diagnosed with ASD often have a hyperactive response to their names.
D) Young children later diagnosed with ASD show delays in make-believe social play.
Q3) Can a child be diagnosed with ASD if he or she displays only marked deficits in social communication and hypersensitivity to sensory stimuli? Why or why not?
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Chapter 7: Communication and Learning Disorders
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Q1) According to a comprehensive assessment approach,a child must show a cognitive processing problem to be determined to have a learning disability; documentation of a deficit in an academic skill is not sufficient.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Donald,who has language disorder,tries to follow his mom's directions.When she slowly speaks to him,he almost always does what she says,but when they are in a rush and she quickly tells him what to do,sometimes he can't quite understand.This indicates that Donald might have which of the following?
A) problems with auditory perception, for instance in discriminating between phonemes
B) deficits in rapid temporal processing
C) delays in short-term memory
D) impoverished parent-child communication
Q3) Grammar is relatively unimpaired in kids with specific language impairment.
A)True
B)False
Q4) How might slow processing speed relate to challenges with reading comprehension?
Q5) Describe how problems in auditory perception may result in language problems.
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Chapter 8: Attention-Deficit-Hyperactivity Disorder
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Q1) Which of the following best describes the effectiveness of special diets in helping children with ADHD?
A) No reputable study has found a positive effect of special diets on behavioral outcomes for children with ADHD.
B) A subset of children with ADHD seem to show a reduction in symptoms following a change in diet.
C) The most effective special diet for children with ADHD is one in which sugar is strictly limited.
D) The most effective special diet for children with ADHD is one in which salt is strictly limited.
Q2) As discussed in the textbook,direct contingency management has been shown to result in all of the following EXCEPT ______.
A) increasing attention
B) increasing appropriate social behavior
C) reducing disruptive behavior and aggression
D) reducing obedience latency (time to obey a command)
Q3) What do you think might account for the finding that community care was the least effective of all treatment conditions in the MTA study?
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Chapter 9: Conduct Problems in Children and Adolescents
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Q1) Conduct problems are ______.
A) the most common childhood mental health problems referred for diagnosis
B) surpassed only by ADHD as a reason for pediatricians to refer to a mental health provider
C) surpassed by anxiety disorders and depression as a reason for pediatricians to refer to a mental health provider
D) infrequently referred to mental health providers because these issues are often not considered mental health issues, but instead "bad behavior" issues
Q2) Rich and Bobby have both been teased and ostracized by their peers.In part,this is because they each have exhibited disruptive and oppositional behaviors.So,Rich and Bobby become friends with each other.Their friendship is a tendency known as ______.
A) controversial sociometric bias
B) rejected association
C) selective affiliation
D) deviancy training
Q3) Lying would be considered a covert symptom of CD.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 10: Substance Use Disorders in Adolescents
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Q1) Which of the following describes the relationship between anxiety and substance use?
A) Anxiety typically precedes substance use.
B) Anxiety typically develops after substance use.
C) Anxiety is very rare in those with substance use problems, so there is practically no relationship.
D) It is complex; sometimes anxiety precedes substance use, sometimes it develops afterward.
Q2) One benefit of the ASSIST questionnaire for assessing child and adolescent substance use disorders is ______.
A) it involves biological measures of tolerance.
B) it collects reports from both the youth and the parent.
C) it has norms based on gender, ethnicity, and SES, which other measures do not.
D) it can be repeated without harming test-retest reliability, which other measures cannot.
Q3) Relpase is uncommon in those who have undergone cognitive behavioral therapy.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What is the role of expectations in the enhanced reinforcement pathway?
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Chapter 11: Anxiety Disorders and Obsessivecompulsive Disorder
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Q1) Which of the following is true of selective mutism?
A) It is relatively rare.
B) It typically occurs in late childhood.
C) It typically resolves itself without intervention.
D) It is a relatively short-term condition.
Q2) Josie,age 5,has separation anxiety disorder.Based on the Early Developmental Stages of Psychopathology study,which of the following is most likely to be true of Josie at age 15?
A) She will still meet criteria for separation anxiety disorder.
B) She will no longer display symptoms of any anxiety disorder.
C) She will likely not meet criteria for separation anxiety disorder but is likely to meet criteria for a different anxiety or depressive disorder.
D) She will likely meet criteria for both separation anxiety disorder and another anxiety or depressive disorder.
Q3) Melanie is always picking at blemishes on her face.Despite her mothers' warnings,she doesn't really want to stop,though it leaves her with red scabs all over.Does this constitute excoriation disorder? Why or why not?
Q4) In what ways can anxiety be positive,helpful,or adaptive?
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Chapter 12: Trauma-Related Disorders and Child
Maltreatment
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Q1) To be diagnosed with PTSD,a person must have a negative alteration of mood symptom,irrespective of the person's age.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Children cannot be diagnosed with reactive attachment disorder if they have had appropriate care.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Collectively,studies of parent training techniques for parents who had engaged in child maltreatment found which of the following?
A) Parent training is the most efficacious treatment.
B) The combination of traditional parent training and parent-child interaction therapy was most efficacious.
C) The combination of traditional parent training and group-based parent training was most efficacious.
D) Parent-child interaction therapy with a brief motivational session was most effective.
Q4) Can escape-avoidance coping ever be seen as an adaptive coping strategy?
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Chapter 13: Depressive Disorders and Suicide
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Q1) Learned helplessness refers to which of the following?
A) the inability to develop independent coping skills when parents are particularly intrusive
B) expressions of uncertainty and help-seeking when faced with environmental stressors
C) the propensity to not seek escape from stressors when past stressors were inescapable
D) the informational transmission that social mores cannot be changed or overcome
Q2) "Psyching-up" is which of the following?
A) a component of the Coping with Depression Program
B) a component of coping with negative emotions
C) a term for directing all of a child's energy and attention to solving a problem
D) a way for a child with depression to reward himself or herself after solving a problem
Q3) What does it mean that the influence between stressful life events and depression is bidirectional? How could that be?
Q4) What is the evidence for the monoamine hypothesis?
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Chapter 14: Pediatric Bipolar Disorders and Schizophrenia
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Q1) Alyssa is suspected of having bipolar disorder She's experiencing grandiosity,flight of ideas,and psychomotor agitation.She could be diagnosed with bipolar I disorder only if she also experienced which of the following?
A) irritability
B) changes in mood and energy
C) pressured speech and decreased need for sleep
D) excessive involvement in activities with a high potential for painful consequences and distractibility
Q2) Which of the following is a difference in bipolar disorders between men and women?
A) overall prevalence of bipolar I disorder
B) more frequent manic episodes in women than in men
C) more psychotic features in women than in men
D) later symptom onset in men than in women
Q3) No atypical antipsychotics are officially approved for use in those under the age of 18.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Explain the neurodevelopmental model for schizophrenia.
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Chapter 15: Feeding and Eating Disorders
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Q1) Serotonin levels tend to be higher in those ______.
A) with bulimia nervosa than in those who have recovered from bulimia nervosa
B) with anorexia nervosa than those who have recovered from anorexia nervosa
C) with anorexia nervosa than in those with bulimia nervosa d without eating disorders than in those with either anorexia nervosa or bulimia nervosa
Q2) The dual pathway model predicts all EXCEPT which of the following?
A) A culture without a socially sanctioned thin ideal would have no eating disorders.
B) Praising girls for being overweight instead of for being thin would reduce restrictive eating.
C) It is failure to reach a socially constructed beauty ideal that drives eating disordered behavior.
D) Teasing overweight individuals would likely help them to lose weight sustainably.
Q3) Most experts believe that the subjective experience of the binge (feeling out of control)is more important than the number of calories consumed when diagnosing and treatment bulimia nervosa.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 16: Health-Related Disorders and Pediatric Psychology
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Q1) Since she was a little child Kelly, age 12, has woken up feeling fully rested at 3:00 a.m. She goes to sleep every evening at 7:00 p.m. Would this be considered a sleep disorder?
A) Yes, circadian rhythm sleep wake disorder.
B) No, because Kelly is not yet an adult.
C) No, because it doesnt cause her distress or impairment.
D) No, because we dont know whether her family has promoted this sleep pattern.
Q2) Kylie,age 8,sleeps about 6 hours per night but seems perfectly rested and happy during the day.However,her parents cannot handle having a child who is fully awake at 4:00 every morning.They are sleep deprived and frustrated.Does Kylie meet the criteria for insomnia disorder?
A) Yes.
B) No, because she must sleep for 5 or fewer hours per night to be diagnosed with insomnia disorder.
C) No, because she seems to be on a regular schedule and insomnia disorder is only diagnosed when sleep is erratic.
D) No, because she is not dissatisfied with the quality or quantity of her sleep.
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