Instrument selection in clinical personality assessment (1.5 CEs)
SPA E-Learning Center | 2024 SPA Convention
Abstract
The goal of this case presentation is to discuss how experts think about how to choose tests to answer specific kinds of clinical assessment questions. Very little evidence exists about how to go about selecting instruments in individual cases. Although conceptual models exist to help guide test selection and experienced clinicians often have a strong intuition of which tests to use to answer specific questions, students, trainees, and less experienced clinicians have relatively little to go on in terms of thinking about this issue. This presentation will have the following parts: 1. Brief discussion of the problem of how to select tests to answer specific questions (10 minutes). 2. Four invited experts (Mark Blais, Hilde De Saeger, Stephen Finn, and Katie Lewis) will describe how they think about this issue (20 minutes). 3. Each expert will have been sent a case in which a brief collaborative assessment has been conducted with multiscale measures, but questions remain unanswered as the patient stabilizes and transitions from inpatient to outpatient care. This case, initial results, and follow-up questions will be briefly presented (10 minutes). 4. Each expert will independently describe their plan for a follow-up session with new instruments to answer common questions, their rationale for choosing the instruments they did, and how they expect those measures to be helpful (35 minutes). 3. We will host a group discussion regarding similarities and differences in expert approaches (15 minutes).
Chair
Alina Kopezki | Psychiatric University Hospital Zurich
Discussant
Chris Hopwood | University of Zurich
Goals & Objectives
- Compare different conceptual models of test selection.
- Explain why clinical experience and/or research supports certain kinds of tests for specific assessment questions.