Childhood Disorders Mental Retardation: Characterized by significantly Sub average intellectual functioning (IQ of 70 or Below) with onset before age 18. Mild- IQ 50-55 to 70; educable 318.0 Moderate- 35-40 to 50-55; trainable 318.1 Severe- 20-25 to 35-40; little speech 318.2 Profound- below 20-25 319 Mental Retardation, severity unspecified. Learning Disorders: Characterized by […]
Eric K. Mason General Information Test: Career Orientation Placement and Evaluation Survey (COPES) Authors: Lisa Knapp-Lee, Robert R. Knapp, and Lila F. Knapp This version of the COPES was published in 1995 and its manual in 1996 by EdITS (Educational and Industrial Testing Service). The self-interpretation profile and guide was published in 1995 by EdITS, […]
Eric K. Mason General Information Test: Shipley Institute of Living Scale (Shipley) Type: Intelligence Authors: Walter C. Shipley Technical Evaluation The norm group for the Shipley consists of 290 psychiatric patients with a mean age of 34.9. Test-retest and Split-half studies determined the reliability of the Shipley. The Shipley showed high reliability. […]
Eric K. Mason April 2007 General Information Test: Substance Abuse Subtle Screening Inventory (SASSI) Type: Substance Abuse Authors: Glenn Miller Technical Evaluation The norm group for the SASSI consists of 1,015 individuals from various rehabilitation programs, treatment centers, and hospitals. Three percent of the sample consists of individuals from a correctional facility. A test-retest study […]
Eric K. Mason Depression Anxiety and Stress Scales (DASS) The DASS is primarily used to measure three emotional states, which are regarded as unpleasant or undesirable—depression, anxiety, and stress. The DASS consist of 42 items whose aim is to measure 14 primary symptoms on a scale from zero to three. Although all 42 items […]
Eric K. Mason Introduction Narcissism is described as a “complex of personality traits and processes that involve a grandiose yet fragile sense of self as well as a preoccupation with success and demands for admiration (Owens, Wallace, and Waldman, 2015).” In addition, narcissism tends to conjure up people with negative personality characteristics, such […]
Personality Disorders Ingrained, enduring patterns of behaving, feeling, perceiving, and thinking which are a) inflexible and maladaptive and b) significantly impair social and/or occupational functioning or cause substantial subjective distress. Paranoid Personality Disorder (“I only trust me and thee, and I’m not so sure of thee”) – a pattern of distrust and suspiciousness […]
In “Treatment of Features of Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder Using Carbamazepine,” Greve and Adams discussed the use of carbamazepine, an anti-consultant, for the treatment of obsessive-compulsive personality disorder (OCPD). In their article, Greve and Adams describe a trial study using only one participant. Therefore, no definite conclusions may be drawn from this study, but it does […]
According to Arnold, De Waal, Eekhof, and Van Hemert somatoform disorders are among the most common mental disorders found in primary care settings (2006). In a recent study conducted by Arnold, et al., the prevalence of somatoform disorders in primary care settings was measured at 16.1% (2006). Some studies have reported the prevalence of somatoform […]
Running head: Counseling Perspective My Counseling Perspective Presented to The Faculty of the Department of Rehabilitation Studies East Carolina University In Partial fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of the Substance Abuse and Clinical Counseling program by Eric K. Mason […]
