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MENTAL HEALTH NURSING Psychologycal Test

The document discusses the role of psychological tests and the responsibilities of nurses in mental health nursing. It defines psychological tests as standardized measures used by psychologists to assess behavior and help people understand themselves. Some key uses of tests include measuring a patient's problems, making diagnoses, and tracking treatment progress. The document also outlines several types of psychological tests for assessing symptoms, personality/disorders, cognitive functioning, environmental stressors, and psychodynamics. Nurses should be familiar with these tests to enhance care and use measurable indicators for treatment outcomes.

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MENTAL HEALTH NURSING Psychologycal Test

The document discusses the role of psychological tests and the responsibilities of nurses in mental health nursing. It defines psychological tests as standardized measures used by psychologists to assess behavior and help people understand themselves. Some key uses of tests include measuring a patient's problems, making diagnoses, and tracking treatment progress. The document also outlines several types of psychological tests for assessing symptoms, personality/disorders, cognitive functioning, environmental stressors, and psychodynamics. Nurses should be familiar with these tests to enhance care and use measurable indicators for treatment outcomes.

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MENTAL HEALTH NURSING

PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS ROLE AND


RESPONSIBILITES OF NURSE

PRESENTED BY
MRS BEMINA JA
ASSISSTANT PROFESSOR
ESIC College of Nursing
Kalaburagi
INTRODUCTION

 Psychological Assessment is the gathering and


integration of psychology -related data for the
purpose of making a psychological evaluation that is
accomplished through the use of tools such as tests,
interviews, case studies, behavioural observation,
and specially designed apparatuses and measurement
procedures • Psychological testing of patients is
identify conducted by a clinical psychologist who
has been trained in the administration, scoring &
interpretation of these procedures.
DEFINITION

 • Psychological tests are standard measure


devised to assess behaviour objectively and
used by psychologist to help people make
decision about their lives and understand more
about themselves.
USES OF PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS
 Psychological tests have been designed to help
clinicians. They help in:
 Measuring the extent of the patient’s problems
 Making an accurate diagnosis
 Tracking patient progress over time
 Documenting the efficacy of treatment
PRINCIPLES OF PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS

  • Psychological tests should have been three components i.e.


Standard , content , & procedure that make it possible for
anybody to administer it anywhere anytime.
 • Tests should have norms to compare an individual test score
of a known group , who have taken the test.
 • Tests items are of high technical quality prepared by experts ,
pretested and selected on the basis of difficulty , power ,
relationship to a clearly defined rigid set of specifications.
 • Directions for administering scores are precisely stated , so
that procedures are standard for different users of the tests.
 • A test manual and other accessory materials are provided as a
guide for administration , scoring , evaluating , its technical
qualities and for interpreting and using the result .
PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS

 Instruments for Assessment of Symptoms


 Instruments for Assessment of Personality
Traits and Disorders
 Instruments for Assessment of Cognitive
Functioning
 Instruments for Assessment of Environmental
Stressors
 Instruments for Assessment of
Psychodynamics
INSTRUMENTS FOR ASSESSMENT OF SYMPTOMS
 Brief psychiatric rating scale
 Psychiatric symptoms check list
 Clinical global impression
 Anxiety self-rating scale
 Hamilton anxiety scale
 Beck’s anxiety scale
 Beck’s depression scale
 Hamilton depression scale
 Manic state rating scale
 Yale brown obsessive compulsive scale
 Suicide intent scale
 Nurses observation scale for inpatient evaluation (NOSIE)
 Positive & negative symptoms scale (PANSS) for schizophrenia
 Extra pyramidal symptoms rating scale
 Global assessment of functioning (GAF) scale
 • Insight & treatment attitude questionnaire (ITAQ)
 • The CAGE questionnaire • Mini mental status examination (MMSE)
 • Child behaviuor check list (CBCL) 
INSTRUMENTS FOR ASSESSMENT OF PERSONALIT TRAITS AND DISORDERS

 1 • Minnesota multiple personality inventory


 2 • Cattel’s 16 factors personality inventory
 3 • Eysenck personality inventory
 Wechsler adult intelligence scale(WAIS)
 Sechsler intelligence scale for children
 Binet kamath test of intelligence
 Bhatia battery test for intelligence
 NIMHANS neuropsychological battery of
lobe dysfunction
 INSTRUMENTS FOR ASSESSMENT OF
ENVIRONMENTAL STRESSORS
 Social adjustment scale
 Marital satisfaction inventory
 INSTRUMENTS FOR ASSESSMENT OF
PSYCHODYNAMIC
 Rorschach ink blot test
 Thematic apperception test
Role of nurse in psychological assessment
 Nurses should become familiar with the many
standardized psychological tests that area
vailable to enhance each stage of the nursing
process
 • These tests help in providing care &
measurable indicators for treatment outcome.
 • For example, if the nurse is caring for a
patient with depression, it would be helpful to
use one of the depression rating scales with the
patient at the beginning of care/treatment to
establish a baseline profile of the patient’s
symptoms & help confirm the diagnosis.

 The nurse might then administer the same


scale at various times during the course of
treatment to measure the patient’s progress.
 • A nurse should have knowledge about all the
psychological tests, which will enable her to
clarify the patient’s & relative’s doubts
regarding the psychological tests have to
undergo.
 • The nurse should reassure the patient about
the safety of the tests & confidentiality of the
observations of the psychologist.
 • Psychological tests are another source of data
for the nurse to use in planning care for the
patient.

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