Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- PART ONE BASIC ISSUES
- PART TWO DIMENSIONS OF TESTING
- 4 Personality
- 5 Cognition
- 6 Attitudes, Values, and Interests
- 7 Psychopathology
- 8 Normal Positive Functioning
- PART THREE APPLICATIONS OF TESTING
- PART FOUR THE SETTINGS
- PART FIVE CHALLENGES TO TESTING
- Appendix: Table to Translate Difficulty Level of a Test Item into a z Score
- References
- Test Index
- Index of Acronyms
- Subject Index
- References
7 - Psychopathology
from PART TWO - DIMENSIONS OF TESTING
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- PART ONE BASIC ISSUES
- PART TWO DIMENSIONS OF TESTING
- 4 Personality
- 5 Cognition
- 6 Attitudes, Values, and Interests
- 7 Psychopathology
- 8 Normal Positive Functioning
- PART THREE APPLICATIONS OF TESTING
- PART FOUR THE SETTINGS
- PART FIVE CHALLENGES TO TESTING
- Appendix: Table to Translate Difficulty Level of a Test Item into a z Score
- References
- Test Index
- Index of Acronyms
- Subject Index
- References
Summary
AIM In this chapter we look at testing as applied to psychopathology. We briefly cover some issues of definition and nosology, and then we look at 11 different instruments, each selected for specific purposes. First, we look at two screening inventories, the SCLR-90 and the PSI. Then we look at three multivariate instruments: two of these, the MMPI and the MCMI, are major instruments well known to most clinicians, and the third is new and unknown. Next, we look at an example of a test that focuses on a specific aspects of psychopathology – the schizoid personality disorder. Finally, we look at a measure of anxiety and three measures of depression used quite frequently by clinicians and researchers. More important than each specific test, are the kinds of issues and construction methodologies they represent, especially in relation to the basic issues covered in Chapter 3.
INTRODUCTION
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM). As you are well aware, there is a wide range of physical illnesses that can affect humans. These illnesses are classified, under various headings, in the International Classification of Diseases, a sort of dictionary of illnesses which also gives each illness a particular classificatory number. Thus physicians, clinics, insurance companies, governmental agencies, etc., all over the world, have a uniform system for reporting and classifying illnesses.
A similar approach applies to mental illnesses, and here the classificatory schema is called the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, or DSM for short.
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- Psychological TestingAn Introduction, pp. 161 - 196Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2006