Collecting Biophysiologic and Other Data Collection Method

Rizabie Podirsky

Contents of Module 13

Biophysiologic MeasuresRecord, Documents and Available

DataQ MethodologyProjective TechniquesVignettesCognitive and Neuropsychological

Tests

Objectives

To be able to understand

Projective TechniquesVignettesCognitive and Neuropsychological Tests

Projective Techniques

- is a - is a personality test designed to let a designed to let a person person respond to ambiguous respond to ambiguous stimuli, presumably revealing stimuli, presumably revealing hidden emotions and internal hidden emotions and internal conflicts.conflicts.

Types of Projective Techniques Types of Projective Techniques Pictorial projective techniquePictorial projective technique

Rorschach ink blot testRorschach ink blot test Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)

Verbal projective techniqueVerbal projective technique Association techniquesAssociation techniques

Word-association methodWord-association method Completion techniquesCompletion techniques

Sentence completionSentence completion Expressive MethodsExpressive Methods

Play techniquesPlay techniques Drawing and paintingDrawing and painting Role-playingRole-playing

Thematic Apperception Test(TAT)

TAT has been among the most widely used, researched, and taught projective psychological tests.

The TAT is popularly known as the picture interpretation technique.

The subject is asked to tell as dramatic a story as he can.

Sometimes it is used in a psychiatricor psychological context to assess personality disorders, thought disorders.

The large number of research studies that have used the TAT have indicated that cultural, gender, and class issues must be taken into account.

Rorschach test Hermann Rorschach created

Rorschach inkblot test in 1921. Psychologists use this test to

examine a person's personality characteristics and emotional functioning.

It has been employed to detect an underlying thought disorder, especially in cases where patients are reluctant to describetheir thinking processes openly.

Method

Presentation of Inkblot Test

The psychologist writesdown everything the subject saysor does, no matter how trivial.

Vignettes

Brief description of events or situations to which Brief description of events or situations to which respondents are ask to react.respondents are ask to react.

Aim is to get info about respondents’:Aim is to get info about respondents’: PerceptionPerception OpinionOpinion Knowledge about some phenomenonKnowledge about some phenomenon

Cognitive and Cognitive and Neuropsychological TestNeuropsychological Test

Cognitive tests are assessments of the cognitive capabilities of humans and other animals.

Neuropsychological tests are specifically designed tasks used to measure a psychological function known to be linked to a particular brain structure or pathway. 

Reasons/Purposes of Cognitive Assessment

Screening

-to determine the absence or presence of impairment.

Monitoring

-to track cognitive status over time, especially response to treatment. 

The major purposes of a neuropsychological assessment are to assist with questions about:

Integrity of cognitive functions Differential diagnosis – to confirm or

clarify a diagnosis Treatment planning Capacity

References

Nursing Research-Principles and Methods, 7th edition, Denise F. Polit/Cheryl Tatano Beck, 2004

www.youtube.com www.wikipedia.com http://stanfordhospital.org/ www.iamure.com www.goodreads.com

Synthesis

“I want to understand the world from your point of view. I want to know what you know in the way you know it. I want to understand the meaning of your experience, to walk in your shoes, to feel things as you feel them, to explain things as you explain them. Will you become my teacher and help me understand?” 

James P. Spradley