WGU - D344 - Section 2 Questions with 100% corrrect answers + rationales

Transference

Patient projects feelings from an object or person from the past onto the analyst

Countertransference

The analyst projects elements from their past onto the patient

Reflection

redirecting the idea back to the patient for classification of important emotional overtones, feelings, and experiences

CAGE-AID

-screening tool used to gather data about the client's substance use

Vanderbilt

-Screening for ADHD

Connor's Scale

-Screening for ADHD

PHQ-9

-Screening for major depression

Beck Inventory

-Assess the severity of depression

EDPS

-Identifying pospartum depression

Brief Psychiatric rating scale

-tool used to measure severity of acute pyschiatric symptoms in individuals with psychosis

mood disorder questionnaire

-screens for bipolar disorder

GAD-7

Assess level and extent of anxiety

Y-BOCS

-assessment scale for OCD

Mood

Patient's internal and sustained emotional state

Affect

A patient's outward manifestations of a mood state visible to others

Circumstantial

Tangential

loose associations (derailment)

flight of ideas

Word salad

Neologism

Insight

-frontal lobe funciton represented by the capacity of the individual to appraise whether one's thoughts, feelings, behaviors, perceptions, and planned actions are appropriate and realistic

Diagnostic overshadowing

-Automatically attributing a clients physical symptoms to their mental illness

Projective tests

-personality assessments that present ambiguous visual stimuli to the client and ask the client to respond with whatever comes to mind

-Example: Rorschach test

Reliability

the degree that a test measures what it purports to measure, consistently

Validity

Does the test measure what it purports to measure?