Do psychologists use a multidisiplinary approach when conducting a physchological assesment?
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When one is in the psychiatric hospital and a multidisciplinary approach is used, a dietician looks at the eating habits and their impact on the problem, the social worker looks at the influence of the family, the psychiatrist might evaluate medication needs, an individual therapist might look at the person's thinking process, a pator or clergyman or clergywoman might look at spiritual beliefs of the person and a group therapist might focus on how the person interacts with the peer group.
A multidisciplinary approach means looking at a person and the assessment from many different perspectives. For example, taking into account the ethnicity of a client - that is, one may interpret the results of a first generation Chineese-American differently that a that of a 5th generation white student.
Multidiscipline means looking at cultural factors, economic considerations, family's impact (is there an alchoholic in the home? is there abuse? absent dad? single parent? mom living with temporary boyfriend?), dietary issues,individual personality style. Some cultures value education and achievement more than others. In some, women are to be seen and not heard. A family where the parents are both highschool drop-outs would tend to produce kids who would likely be less goal oriented as far as education goals than one where both parents are college graduates. Some kids are malnourished while others eat in a healthy manner.
A good psychological assessment looks at the impact of culture/ethnic group, family, social-economic status, religion, etc on the person. Most psychological assessments I have read have not done a good job of looking at all the other factors impacting a person.
Hope this helps.
A good psychologist will. The idea is that there are different ways of seeing things, and in psychology different schools of thought have arisen. Applying these helps in an assessment, because if one leads to a conclusion, and then others do, too, there is a greater likelihood that the assessment is correct. This points to different possibilities for treatment.
Multi-disciplinary just means more than one discipline. Like pairing neurology and psychology.
There are five major views in psychology (i.e. Behaviorism, Cognitive, and the approach that deals with the physical part of the brain.).
Psychologists use something called eclecticism when conducting an assessment, which basically means they take ideas from all or some of the five approaches and combine them to accomplish their goals.
As for multi-disciplinary approaches, I think they are becoming more and more common and new links are discovered.
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