Clinical Assessment & Diagnosis Flashcards

Which assessment tool was designed specifically to evaluate awareness in patients with disorders of consciousness, such as vegetative or minimally conscious states?

Answer: MATADOC

The Music Therapy Assessment Tool for Awareness in Disorders of Consciousness (MATADOC) was developed by Magee to assess responsiveness in patients with disorders of consciousness.

A school district asks a music therapist to decide whether music therapy is needed for a student to benefit from their IEP goals. Which assessment process fits this request best?

Answer: Special Education Music Therapy Assessment Process (SEMTAP)

SEMTAP, developed by Brunk and Coleman, compares a student's performance with and without music to decide whether music therapy is needed as a related service under IDEA.

Which of the following is NOT one of the six profiles in Bruscia's Improvisation Assessment Profiles?

Answer: Tonality

Bruscia's six profiles are integration, variability, tension, congruence, salience, and autonomy; tonality is not one of them.

During assessment, a therapist records how many seconds pass between a verbal cue and the moment the client starts striking the drum. What is being measured?

Answer: Latency

Latency is the time between a stimulus or cue and the start of the response.

An adult client with a recent left-hemisphere stroke speaks in effortful, halting phrases but understands speech well. Which intervention would the assessment most likely point toward?

Answer: Melodic Intonation Therapy

Melodic Intonation Therapy is best supported for nonfluent (Broca's) aphasia when comprehension is relatively intact.

Which statement best describes the music therapist's role in diagnosis?

Answer: The therapist assesses functioning within their scope but does not independently make medical or psychiatric diagnoses

Music therapists review existing diagnoses and assess within their scope, but formal medical or psychiatric diagnosis belongs to appropriately licensed professionals.

Which observation strategy is most likely to OVERESTIMATE how often a behavior occurs?

Answer: Partial interval recording

Partial interval recording scores an interval if the behavior happens at any point in it, which tends to overestimate how often the behavior occurs.