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Post Traumatic Stress Disorder: A Case Study

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Psychological Testing and Clinical Diagnosis The purpose of this paper is to provide with a brief summary Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), including symptoms, prevalence, and development according to the DSM book. It will also explain the type of tools that can be used when working with DSM diagnosis. There will be two recommendation tests that can be used for PTSD. There will also be tools that will help the counselor with the assessment and tool for a client with PTSD. Summary Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) PTSD is referred to an anxiety disorder resulting an experience either directed or undirected. It is a traumatic event that involved a serious injury, sexual violation, treated and death. According to American Psychiatric …show more content…

The counselor when they interview the client based on the questions that were provide on the questionnaire. Another type of toll that can be used by the DSM cross cutting symptom measures is offering the emerging measures. It is an assessment measure that will help rather information that is required to enhance the clinical decision making. According to American Psychiatric Association “The DSM-5 Level 1 Cross-Cutting Symptom Measure is a self- or informant-rated measure that assesses mental health domains that are important across psychiatric diagnoses”. Therefore, this tool can be used to help identify diagnosis and symptoms. According to Sin, Abdin and Lee (2012) “We examined the validity of the PTSD Symptom Scale Self-Report (PSS-SR) as a screening instrument for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).” So, self- report is a scale that can be used to determine …show more content…

The test is able to get an understanding of the diagnosis based on the answer of the client. According to Wells et al. (2005) “This measure is used to assess the self-reported beliefs, attitudes, feelings, moods, and behaviors of adolescents”. By using this test, it is considered to be reliable because clients will need to answer the questions because they need the help. Self- assessment test might be valid in some way because clients will not be honest but due to the information it might be valid depending of what was answer with the truth. According to Rosman, Mayer and Krampen (2015) “self-assessments in test batteries might be suited to expand the range of the assessment because, for some aspects of information literacy, learners’ own appreciations of their abilities are superior to those made by achievement tests. So, the test can be valid depending on the information that was

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