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I see schools of undifferentiated behavioural interpretation
I've searched, not very hard admittedly, but I could find no warning saying to use the BASC survey with care in populations of children with medical conditions.
Unqualified behavioural "assessment" is not assessment. Interpretation is not assessment
This "Assessment System" is not even an interpetation. It pretends to interpret. It misinterprets instead
It translates all a target may think, say and do into some model of aberration
It churns out new models of aberration so often its like Sainsburies bringing out a host of new convenience foods every month. Whatever sells well
Eg its not an eating disorder. Then its an avoidant disorder. Thats a new one. Gotcha
These people obviously grew up playing tag inbetween playing mummies and daddies, or best of all playing teacher. A ready made workforce ripe for recruitment. No discernment required. Just must modify the people according to the model
Unregulated behavioural "assessment" may translate all of your communication, all of your ways, all of your thoughts, every look on your face, every mask and all of your body language. All those bodily signs and symptoms. It all translates into some aberration
Everything and anything can be mapped onto these models, which can also be enforced
It is even more pernicious once contending that any targets' health and safety criteria are pathological. A danger to all concerned. To be "modified". Modify all contra-indications
It will so contend. Because it can. It knows no bounds.
Health & Safety criteria remain prohibitive, nevertheless. This is necessarily legitimised
So the maverick science fixates on the signs of fear. It probes and prompts for fear. It will challenge you. It will push you onto the slippery slope so you must opt out. Bingo. Proof
When enforcement is implied (threatened) then do not agree to comply. Because that is a legal agreement. Breaking the legal agreement is the grounds for the enforcement. Neat heh
At that stage, if its not all a bluff, then you might need an independent assessment, instead. And you would be entitled to one. In the hands of a real practitioner who has standards. For example, this survey designed to recognise some extra distress and maybe attend to it, but not necessarily to modify the mind:
There are surveys that could be used in ME/CFS instead of the BASC, with its aim of identifying psychopathologies, in order to identify symptoms and mood issues, both for research and for clinical care.
You would probably still want to add on questions for ME/CFS specific symptoms and something like FUNCAP for assessing function. For example;
The Measurement of Symptoms in Children with Cancer
See how the Memorial Symptom Assessment Scale doesn't put psychopathology labels on psychological symptoms? 'Feeling sad, feeling nervous, worrying, feeling irritable'. All perfectly normal and largely reasonable reactions to being sick, not being able to do what you did before and being uncertain when or if you will be well again.
It's not the use of surveys that is necessarily wrong, it is the use of surveys that record a young person's natural responses to being sick (e.g. reporting pain, feeling sad) and automatically assume that those reports and feelings are wrong and indicative of mental illness.
However one should not be subjected to any demand for proof of illness, while ill or nursing an ill child. By the time there is such a dispute, such assessments cannot be posed as therapy
Of course there are cases where co-operation with a zealous reformer works. Its just not predictable, so it is a vagary. In other cases co-operation will never work. That was pre-determined. In some cases the co-operation required is designed to be impossible
Please do check me if and where my posts are not accurate observation, but just my opinion, and/or ignorant of the exceptions to my rules
I am not sure there is any science of behaviour that is not intent upon modifying other people's behaviour. As if for their own good. Selling them something that must be good for them so they must have it
Behavioural science. Behavioural analysis. Behavioural assessment. Behavioural evaluation. Behavioural modification
The expertise of pure science, applied by an adept in the applied science of behaviour
The expert "scientific" analysis, assessment, evaluation and modification of behaviour
Steered by competent cost-effective research. Market research. Social research. Political research. Psychological research. Neuroscience research. The advertising alone is worth a treasure
The BASC-3 people talk about patterns. I guess the lines help them see the patterns.