Information-gathering and therapeutic models of assessment: Complementary paradigms

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Psychological assessment clinical practice is facing major challenges, with third-party payers reluctant to authorize psychological assessments to plan treatment. Several basic designs relating to the clinical use of assessment are reviewed, including differential treatment outcome and differential treatment assignment. It was found that the information-gathering and therapeutical models of assessment were complementary, but that the overemphasis on the information-gathering model may be contributing to the current crisis in the clinical use of psychological assessment.

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Empirical and clinically useful decision making in psychotherapy: Differential predictions with treatment response models

Article Abstract:

A strategy to separate patients into homogeneous subgroups to generate maximum expected treatment response profiles, which can be used to predict and track the progress of patients in different treatment modalities, is presented. A discussion of the various ways in which this procedure can be used in outpatient centers to learn more about patients, predict treatment response and improve clinical practice are presented.

Care and treatment, Evaluation, Psychotherapy patients, Psychotherapy, Outcome and process assessment (Health Care), Outcome and process assessment (Medical care)

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Applying artificial neural network models to clinical decision making

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Artificial neural networks (ANNs) are suitable for a range of clinical decision problems, although their application is lacking in psychological and psychiatric diagnostic decision making. ANNs can overcome certain shortcomings of linear models.

Usage, Computer networks, Neural networks

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