Validity and Usefulness of the Wisconsin Manual for Assessing Psychotic-like Experiences
- UNCG Author/Contributor (non-UNCG co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- Thomas R. Kwapil, Associate Professor (Creator)
- Institution
- The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG )
- Web Site: http://library.uncg.edu/
Abstract: Reviews the development, validity, and potential uses of the Wisconsin Manual for Assessing Psychotic-like Experiences (WMAPE; L. J. Chapman and J. P. Chapman, 1980), and provides an interview schedule for collecting information required to make the ratings. The WMAPE is an interview-based assessment system for rating psychotic and psychotic-like symptoms on a continuum of deviancy from normal to grossly psychotic. The original manual contained 6 scales, assessing thought transmission, passivity experiences, thought withdrawal, auditory experiences, personally relevant aberrant beliefs, and visual experiences; a 7th scale assessing deviant olfactory experiences was subsequently added. The scales have good interrater reliability when used by trained raters. Cross-sectional studies have shown that the frequency and deviancy of psychotic-like experiences are elevated among college students who were identified, hypothetically, as psychosis prone by other criteria. Psychotic-like experiences of moderate deviancy in college students successfully predicted the development of psychotic illness and poorer overall adjustment 10 yrs later. The WMAPE is useful for identifying psychosis-prone individuals and is recommended for use in linkage and treatment outcome studies. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved)
Validity and Usefulness of the Wisconsin Manual for Assessing Psychotic-like Experiences
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- Publication
- Language: English
- Date: 1999
- Keywords
- psychosis, rating scales, test validity, psychiatric symptoms, psychodiagnosis, Wisconsin Manual for Assessing Psychotic-like Experiences, psychology