2. Acknowledgement
I would like to express my special thanks of gratitude to
my psychology teacher pro. Richa singh ma’’am as
well as our swayam UGC course who gave me the
golden opportunity to do this wonderful project on the
topic Academic writing , which also helped me in
doing a lot of research and I come to know about so
many new things .
Secondly I would also like a thank my Dr. Subash
meena sir who helped me a lot in finishing this project
within the limited time
It helped me increase my knowledge and skills .
THANKS AGAIN TO ALL WHO SUPPORTED
3. What is Psychodiagnostic Assessment
(NATURE)
Aim
Types of Pschodiagnostic Assessment
Scope of Psychodiagnostic Testings
Stages
PSYCHODIAGNOSTIC
TECHNIQUE
NATURE, SCOPE, & STAGE
4. NATURE
What is Psychodiagnostics?
Psychodiagnostic is the science or art of
making a personality evaluation.
The diagnosis of mental disorder.
Psychodiagnostic testing is used to help
diagnose and clarify concerns regarding
behavior, personality traits, mood,
emotional functioning, and cognitive
processes.
5. Aims of Psychodiagnostic
Techniques
Answer diagnostic questions and make decisions
Ascertain difficulties
Make predictions about an individual’s behaviour
Measure cognitive ability, strengths and weaknesses
Make evaluative judgments about an individual’s state of
functioning
Take account of an individual’s history, background
information, clinical impressions, observations
6. Take considerations of individual characteristics, such
as age, physical/mental limitations, education level,
culture and language, medical conditions
Have application to treatment interventions, to
optimize outcomes and provide relief from
psychological difficulties
Have application to forensic evaluations
Determine diagnoses based on the Diagnostic
Statistical Manual (5th edition)
Make recommendations about alternative
approaches/treatments available to the individual
7. Types
Intelligence testing
The Binet and Wechsler's scales
Projective techniques
o The Rorschach
o The Holtzman - Ink - Blot Test
TAT
o The Children's Apperception test
o The make a picture story test
o Sentence completion method.
Projective drawing.
9. Scopes
Patients whom you suspect have substance
abuse problems
Patients with possible learning disabilities
Patients with suspected mental retardation or
poor intellectual functioning
Patients with mood disorders
Patients with anxiety and panic disorders
Patients who have experienced trauma
Children and adolescents who are "acting-out"
Patients with suspected personality disorders
11. Stages of Clinical
Assessment/Psychodiagnosi
s
Acc. to Sundberg & Tyler (1962) there are four
stages of psychodiagnosis-
I. Stage of Preparation- all the relevant information
related to problem of client are collected in this
stage. Based on referral questions some
inferences are made for the disorder of client and
decide how to move further in right direction.
II. Stage of Input- the psychologist collect data about
the client’s problem through interviews,
observation and psychological tests and also find
out the situations in which the symptoms of
problem behavior increased.
12. III. Stage of Processing- data collected from
second stage are analyzed and evaluated
and explained by psychologist or
psychiatrists.
IV. Stage of Output- in this stage psychologist
make client aware about his present
problem and suggests some clinical actions
to come out from his problem. Psychologist
provide appropriate direction for the
treatment of problematic behavior of client.