How Therapeutic Assessment Became Humanistic

2020 ◽  
pp. 33-41
Author(s):  
Mary E. Tonsager
Keyword(s):  
Therapeutic Assessment

Multicultural Assessment of Personality and Psychopathology in the United States: Still Art, Not Yet Science, and Controversial

1998 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 62-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard H. Dana
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Racial Identity ◽  
The United States ◽  
Therapeutic Assessment ◽  
Culturally Competent ◽  
Research Attention ◽  
The Status ◽  
Training Research ◽  
Multicultural Assessment ◽  
Personality Description

This paper describes the status of multicultural assessment training, research, and practice in the United States. Racism, politicization of issues, and demands for equity in assessment of psychopathology and personality description have created a climate of controversy. Some sources of bias provide an introduction to major assessment issues including service delivery, moderator variables, modifications of standard tests, development of culture-specific tests, personality theory and cultural/racial identity description, cultural formulations for psychiatric diagnosis, and use of findings, particularly in therapeutic assessment. An assessment-intervention model summarizes this paper and suggests dimensions that compel practitioners to ask questions meriting research attention and providing avenues for developments of culturally competent practice.

Live Parental Observation of Testing in Therapeutic Assessment With Children

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Prerna Arora ◽  
Deborah J. Tharinger ◽  
Laura E. Judd ◽  
Judith Wan ◽  
Shasta M. Ihorn
Keyword(s):  
Therapeutic Assessment

Is Incest Harmful?

1983 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 34-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Henderson
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Research ◽  
Early Response ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Therapeutic Assessment ◽  
General Issue ◽  
Clinical Syndromes ◽  
Temporary Suspension ◽  
Probable Outcome ◽  
Psychological Impairment

Classically, incest has been considered from both a psychological and sociological point of view to have harmful consequences. Genetic research, though by no means lacking controversy of its own, generally supports the notion that inbreeding has untoward genetic consequences. The psychodynamics of all three parties to father-daughter incest seem to indicate that people who become involved in incestuous behaviour are often psychologically damaged before the fact, so that if they show subsequent evidence of psychological impairment the incestuous behaviour can be as plausibly viewed as a dysfunctional attempt at solving problems as it can a cause of subsequent psychopathology. Girls involved in the father-daughter incest present in one of half a dozen frequent clinical syndromes. The presentation is influenced by the degree to which the girl may have participated in ongoing incestuous behaviour as opposed to being the presumed victim of an older adult's coercive actions or her own temporary suspension of a behavioural taboo. Research is inconclusive as to the psychological harmfulness of incestuous behaviour, and evidence is reviewed on both sides of this complicated and controversial question. Quite apart from the general issue of the harmful-ness of incest, a number of indicators can be derived from the nature of the incestuous episode and the early response to therapeutic assessment which aid in the clinical forecasting of probable outcome.

Neuronal intranuclear hyaline inclusion disease is a neurodegenerative condition which can be a target for gene therapy

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Moataz Dowaidar
Keyword(s):  
Gene Therapy ◽  
Clinical Symptoms ◽  
Repeat Expansion ◽  
Gene Identification ◽  
Therapeutic Assessment ◽  
Causative Gene ◽  
Central Nervous System Disorders ◽  
Number Of Patients ◽  
Mechanism Research ◽  
Or Gene

NIHID (neuronal intranuclear hyaline inclusion disease) is a neurodegenerative condition that is easy to detect but also easy to misdiagnose. Thanks to breakthroughs in MRI detection, the availability of skin biopsied pathology, and, most critically, the finding of the causative gene which can be targeted by gene therapy, the rate of NIID diagnosis before death has grown significantly in recent years. Symptoms linked with central nervous system disorders, autonomic and peripheral neuropathy, and myopathy may be experienced by patients with NIID. Regardless of how far clinical symptoms or gene identification have progressed in NOTCH2NLC gene-related repeat expansion disorders (NRED), it not only adds to our understanding of NIID, but it also adds to the number of challenges we must address. East Asia has seen a substantial number of patients with GGC repeat expansion in NOTCH2NLC. Clinicians should work together to develop a database of NIID clinical and biological samples, as well as perform additional clinical diagnostic, therapeutic assessment, and pathogenic mechanism research.

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