January 20, 2010 Crit Cart Method

No new assessments learned here, although we did read a chapter, by Gr0th-Marnat (Ch 3) all about interviewing techniques. This article says that without interview data, most assessments are useless. This is because they would be lacking in crucial information that you need to know about the person being assessed. Such as; Do they have any social disorders that may make them create something for a directive in a certain way, or could it be because they are just having a bad day? Without this information, you would never know which it is and could potentially lead to a diagnosis of something where one is not necessary. This seems to me to be a pretty dangerous thing!