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KimWrice

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Describe the three primary goals of clinical assessment procedures, and give an example of each.
 
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Describe the different ways in which diagnosis can be useful (valid). Mention two types of validity.
 
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Reply #1 on: Jun 22, 2018
Answer to Question 1

(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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(1) meaningful or important: provides information and communication value; can provide evidence that leads to a theory of the cause of a disorder; (2) etiological validity: provides information on cause; (3) concurrent validity: agrees with information about behavior in other situations and from other sources; (4) predictive: provides information about the predictable course of the disorder, and later status and behavior.


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Reply 2 on: Jun 22, 2018
Gracias!

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Great answer, keep it coming :)

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