Overview Psychological and neuropsychological assessments can be invaluable in cases where there is a question regarding differential diagnosis, a change in functioning from a premorbid baseline, or when a baseline is needed to assess the efficacy of planned treatments. Clinical…
Key Points Epidemiology Personality has evolved to guide both social and interpersonal function. Use of dimensional diagnostic systems improves reliability and descriptive breadth. Clinical Findings Normal personality traits and DSM-5 personality disorders share many features. Treatment Options Empirical findings indicate…
Key Points Short-term therapies typically last 12 to 36 sessions and focus on a single problem or symptom (called the focus or sector) by actively excluding less pivotal issues. Brief therapies differ from each other in how the focus is…
Key Points Background Psychological assessment is a professional consultation service aimed at providing clinicians with a more complex and empirically-based picture of their patients across a number of relevant clinical domains (e.g., intellectual and neurocognitive functioning, psychopathology and clinical diagnosis,…