This document discusses psychodiagnostic assessment. It begins by defining psychodiagnostics as the science of making a personality evaluation and diagnosing mental disorders. It describes the aims of psychodiagnostic techniques as answering diagnostic questions, ascertaining difficulties, and making predictions and evaluations about an individual's functioning. It then lists and briefly describes common types of psychodiagnostic tests and their scopes. Finally, it outlines the stages of the clinical assessment process, including planning, data collection, data processing, and communicating results.

1. ACADEMIC WRITING
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NAME UJJWALA YADAV
BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY

2. Acknowledgement
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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.

8.  Personality assessment
 MMPI
EPQ
Neo - PI- R
CPI
The 16 PF Questionnaire
 Behavioral assessment
 Neuropsychological assessment
 Halstead - Reitan Neuropsychological Battery
 Luria - Nebraska Neuropsychological Battery
 Bender - Visual - Motor Gestalt test

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

10. Process of Clinical
Assessment/Psychodiagnosi
s
 Planning for assessment
 Collection of assessment data
 Processing assessment data
 Communicating assessment data

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.