PSYCHODIAGNOSTICS

• General Issues in Psychological Assessment:

•Assessment and data collection,

•Processing assessment data and
communicating the findings.
• When you know “something isn’t right” and don’t know
where to start, a psychodiagnostic assessment can help bring
clarity to better understand the “why” behind your behaviors
and emotions.
• If you are struggling with symptoms like depression, anxiety,
difficulty sleeping, poor concentration, stress, low
motivation, hyperactivity, or addiction, a psychodiagnostic
assessment can likely provide helpful insight about diagnosis
and treatment planning.
Psychodiagnostic assessments
• Psychodiagnostic assessments are used to diagnose and
clarify concerns related to behavior, personality traits,
emotional functioning, and mood.
• Data is gathered using several different methods including
semi-structured or structured interviews, completion of
standardized measures, and if consent is given, contact with
other sources like family members, partners, or medical
professionals.
Assessment and data collection
• A branch of psychology concerned with the use of tests in the
evaluation of personality and the determination of factors underlying
human behavior.
• Psychodiagnostic assessments (i.e., psych assessments) are conducted
to help an individual understand and identify psychological illnesses
that might be present for them.
• It is often conducted by a registered psychologist or a skilled clinician
who is under the supervision of a psychologist.
• psychodiagnostic is a branch of psychology concerned with the use of tests in the
evaluation of personality and the determination of factors underlying human
behavior.
• It is about the use of interviews and tests and questionnaires, to evaluate and
quantify the cognitive (strengths and weaknesses), character, and motivational
(interests) traits.
• Psychodiagnostics is the discipline that deals with psychological assessment and
diagnosis, personology, through the use of an integrated repertoire of questionnaires,
personality inventories, batteries and test techniques (psychometric and projective),
clinical interviews, neuropsychological examinations, and observational evaluations;
the type of techniques and tools used vary from time to time, based on the context
and purpose of the assessment, age, and type of possible difficulties of the assessed
subjects.
• Properly chosen psychodiagnostic methods can help better map the
personality, abilities, motives, and potential of the candidate or
employee. In many cases, this knowledge can significantly speed up
and refine.Psychodiagnostic testing will ensure a higher degree of
objectivity of the acquired knowledge and offer extended possibilities
of comparison with general standards or a specific comparative group.
It can also help you better identify individuals capable of exceptional
stylization or hidden talents among candidates - and more consistently
guard your return on investment in recruitment or development.
• Properly chosen psychodiagnostics can help better map the
personality, abilities, motives, and potential of the candidate or
employee.
• Psychodiagnostic assessment focuses on understanding the
individual’s formal thought processes, emotional and personality
functioning in order to help make accurate diagnoses and assist
in the planning of appropriate treatments.
• Psychological assessment is an iterative decision-making process in which data are
systematically collected on the person (or persons), the person’s history,and the
person’s physical, social, and cultural environments. Based on an initial
understanding of the problem to be assessed, preliminary information is gathered
that, in most cases, leads to a refinement of the understanding of the problem and
to an alteration in assessment activities. This cyclethen repeats itself until the
psychologist decides enough information has been collected to adequately respond
to the assessment question.

• Psychological assessment involves the gathering and integration of multi-ple types

of data from multiple sources and perspectives; at a minimum,this involves
information provided bythe client and information based onthe psychologist’s
observation of the client during a clinical interview.
The Purposes of Psychological Assessment
• Assessment-Focused Services Versus Intervention-Focused Services
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• In clinical psychology, however, the term psychodiagnosis is more
related with diagnosis and understanding of mental disorders for
planning and implementation of suitable psychological interventions.
• characterologicaldi
• agnosis
• It involves understanding theperson as complete as possible and aims at describing the
• person’s personality structure and dynamics, his assets and
• weaknesses, the psychosocial demands on him and his/hercoping
resources. Such assessment involves understandingof the personality development.
Understanding how and bywhat factors the given psychopathological symptoms
andsyndrome emerged. In a narrow sense it refers to the
• symptomatic orcategorical diagnosis.
• A process of categorizing the personin terms of any existing psychiatric classification
system
• Somedefinitions According to Atkinson, Berne, and Woodworth (1987)diagnosis
is the process of Determination of the nature of the abnormality or
disease.The classification of an individual on the basis of a disease orabnormality
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• According to Berzonsky (1994) psychodiagnosis
refers The process of classifying information relevant to an individualsemotional
and behavioural state, and
• The name assigned to the state, taken generally from a commonly accepted
classification system
• •Thus, diagnosis can be referred to as a process of classificationand labeling of
abnormality or psychological disorder
A shift towards characterological diagnosis
• There are two specific reasons:-
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• Researches demonstrate that mental health and illness is influenced
by a host of factors and therefore it is necessary to understand the behaviour, emotion
s, thinking, personality, social situations andstressful life events that are associated
with a given psychopathology.
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• With symptomatic diagnostis all patients with a given diagnosis will beconsidered
similar and homogeneous. However, the fact is that within agiven diagnostic category
patients differ a lot in terms of symptomaticmanifestation and associated condition.
Thus, the uniqueness of theindividual is lost with classificatory diagnostic process and
fro planningthe specific treatment the uniqueness of the individual must beconsidered