Source [[Book - Psychopathology Foundations for a Contemporary Understanding]] # Psychological Assessment and Clinical Judgment Howard N. Garb, Scott O. Lilienfeld, and Katherine A. Fowler - Psychological assessment needs to be a balance of scientific method and clinical experience. - There are challenge to use of explicit criteria. For example, Weiner (2000) referred to the current Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM–IV; American Psychiatric Association, 1994) as “a psychometrically shaky, inferential nosological scheme involving criteria and definitions that change from one revision to the next” (p. 436; see also Widiger, this volume). ## Psychometric Principles - Reliability - Consistency of Measurement - Validity - Treatment Utility ## Assessment Instruments ### Interviews ### Brief Self-Rated and Clinician-Rated Measures ### Behavioural Assessment Methods and Psychophysiological Assessment ### Global Measures of Personality and Psychopathology ## Clinical Judgement and Decision Making ### Experience, Training and Clinical Judgement ### Why Clinicians Often do not benefit from experience ## Methodological Recommendations ## Conclusions