Scid-d Scoring

[bluestar]

Hello, All,
I am new and have been trying to search these forums for info on the SCID-D assessment, but can't seem to find much here or on broader Internet searches. My new doctor is going to start evaluating me with the SCID-D next week, but said she anticipates I will score at least a 17 of 20. Does anyone know what this means? It was a comment she made at the end of the session, but I can't find any info on what scoring numbers mean. I know I will find out the answers in a couple of weeks after she administers the SCID-D, but I'm really anxious to get any info I can ahead of time because I want to know what the eff is wrong with me.

I also read the book "The Stranger in the Mirror," and took the five preliminary quizzes offered in that book. I realize those quizzes are not clinically diagnostic, but they give a sense of the severity of your symptoms as to whether you should seek a clinical evaluation. I score at the severe end on all 5 markers of DID.

Any thoughts or experience with the SCID-D or scoring?

 

[Sideways]

I totally understand the anxiety associated with psychological testing. But my advice would be to leave researching this until after you have done the assessment with your T and spoken to her about the results.

Researching this beforehand, or taking similar tests beforehand, will often warp the way we respond to testing and give inaccurate results.

Did your T recommend you prepare in advance? If not, are you able to sit it out till uou go through it with your T?

 

[The Albatross]

Personally, so as to avoid skewing the test and being able to get a reasonably accurate assessment. I took the test cold and let the chips fall where they may. More important, in my view to have a fairly accurate baseline - it isn't exactly the sort of thing you are better off preparing for?

 

[bluestar]

Gosh, that hadn't even occurred to me. I guess that is a good point. To go in fresh, and see what happens. It's just really hard to wait-- I feel like I've waited so long and suffered so long, that it feels like I want to know NOW. Thanks, guys, for all the feedback!

 

[7Cs]

"The total score ranges from 5-20"

Quote taken from...

Somatoform Dissociation

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[Sandstone]

I've been assessed using the SCID-D. It feels like an extended intake interview/ therapy session, but with the focus on what life is like now rather than the underlying events of the past. However, I'm not sure that it is scored in the way you suggest. The report I got was mainly narrative, describing the types of dissociation and how my experience fitted them. It ranked the severity of symptoms in each of the five types of dissociation, I think as not present, slight , moderate or severe, so that would give 5 types* 4 levels =20.

The screening tool SDQ-20 is scored out of 20 questions, but that is very different. It focuses on physical / somatoform manifestations of trauma.

If you want to do preparation for the SCID-D it would probably be worth thinking about the ways that you experience dissociation, so you can bring to mind the examples. It sounds as if the reading and self tests you have already done will give you a clear idea of how it affects you.

 

[bluestar]

I've been assessed using the SCID-D. It feels like an extended intake interview/ therapy session, but...

Thank you so much, Sandstone! Your reply was really thorough and helpful.

 

[bluestar]

I totally understand the anxiety associated with psychological testing. But my advice would be...

Ragdoll Circus, It's tough to wait, you know? We've only met 3 times so far, and she is still getting my general psych and medical history. (I have a lot of physical illnesses in addition to my PTSD/other mental illness.) I've also been through a lot (like many people here), so it's a lot of history to take down. I know we will get to the SCID-D eventually; it's just I've already been suffering so long and in so much confusion about what the eff is wrong with me that I want to know NOW. Ya know?