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ABS300 Psychological Assessment

Week 2 Assignment

Client History Report Draft

For this assignment, you will write the first four sections of the psychological assessment report that will be completed in Week Five. Taking on the role of a psychological evaluator, you will formulate vitally important methodological and theoretical assessment conceptualizations of a client during the initial phases of the assessment process. You will apply your conceptualizations to develop a clear understanding of the presenting concerns. In the initial sections of your psychological assessment report, you will summarize results obtained from examining the following information pertaining to your client: identifying information, reason for referral, presenting concerns, and relevant personal history. The content of this section must demonstrate an ethically and professionally responsible rationale for the use of psychological assessment tools. View the complete instructions for the Final Paper in the link within Week Five of your online course or the “Components of Course Evaluation” section of this guide. To complete this assignment, you will choose one of the following clients.

Timothy Childers (Adolescent Male)

Butcher, J. “Contemporary Use of the MMPI-2 in Forensic Assessment”, Continuing Education Course presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Association, Washington, DC, August 2014. ABS 300 Week Five Sample MMPI-A School Adolescent Male Interpretive Report Timothy Childers  Download ABS 300 Week Five Sample MMPI-A School Adolescent Male Interpretive Report Timothy Childers [PDF].

Kennedy, N. & Harper, Y. (2014). ABS 300 Week Five Final Paper Adolescent Male Case Study Timothy Childers  Download ABS 300 Week Five Final Paper Adolescent Male Case Study Timothy Childers [PDF]. College of Health, Ashford University: San Diego, CA.

Mr. Kyle Jones (Adult Male Personal Injury Case)

Butcher, J. “Contemporary Use of the MMPI-2 in Forensic Assessment”, Continuing Education Course presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Association, Washington, DC, August 2014. ABS 300 Week Five Sample MMPI-2 Adult Male Personal Injury Interpretive Report Mr. Jones  Download ABS 300 Week Five Sample MMPI-2 Adult Male Personal Injury Interpretive Report Mr. Jones [PDF].

Kennedy, N. & Harper, Y. (2014). ABS 300 Week Five Final Paper Adult Male Personal Injury Case Study Mr. Jones  Download ABS 300 Week Five Final Paper Adult Male Personal Injury Case Study Mr. Jones [PDF]. College of Health, Ashford University: San Diego, CA.

Mr. Jeremiah Smith (Geriatric Male Case)

Butcher, J. “Contemporary Use of the MMPI-2 in Forensic Assessment”, Continuing Education Course presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Association, Washington, DC, August 2014.  ABS 300 Week Five Sample MMPI-2 Geriatric Male Interpretive Report Mr. Smith  Download ABS 300 Week Five Sample MMPI-2 Geriatric Male Interpretive Report Mr. Smith[PDF].

Kennedy, N. & Harper, Y. (2014). ABS 300 Week Five Final Paper Geriatric Male Case Study Mr. Smith  Download ABS 300 Week Five Final Paper Geriatric Male Case Study Mr. Smith [PDF]. College of Health, Ashford University: San Diego, CA.

This week, your assignment must cover the following sections of your psychological assessment report and include the headings as listed:

I. Identifying information

Within this section, you will record basic information on your client including the person’s name, sex, gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, age, handedness, and occupation or grade level. For the purposes of this assignment, you are free to create any relevant demographic information that is not explicitly stated in the case scenario. All information you create must be consistent with the information provided and any conclusions you draw in subsequent sections of your paper.

II. Reason for referral

Within this section describe the referral source and the purpose of the assessment. The information you provide in this section must justify the decision to conduct a formal psychological assessment based and must model ethically and professionally responsible assessment practices.

III. Current Symptoms/Presenting Concerns

The information in this section of the report would typically come from an interview with the client and family (if applicable, e.g., if the client is a child or person with suspected dementia).  You must use the information provided in case history to identify the most salient information that belongs in this section. Choose information to include in this section based on the consistency with the reason for referral and purpose for testing. Here is where you will apply your methodological and theoretical assessment formulations of the client that will justify the decision to conduct a psychological evaluation on this client.

IV. Psychosocial History (complete each of the sections below based on the information in the case you selected)

Educational history

Occupational history

Medical history (including substance use/abuse)

Psychiatric history

Social history

Your assignment must be of sufficient depth and detail to support and inform your eventual diagnostic impressions. A cursory or surface level review of the client’s presenting problem and history will unlikely provide enough information for your diagnostic impression. The assignment must also include a page with relevant references based on your initial impressions of possible diagnostic considerations from the history that you have reviewed.

The Assignment:

Must be at least 2.5 to 3 single-spaced pages in length (not including title and reference pages).

Must include a title page with the following:

Title of paper

Student’s name

Course name and number

Instructor’s name

Date submitted

Must use at least 2 scholarly sources, 1 of which must be an original peer-reviewed research article, in addition to the course text.

Must document all sources in APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.

Must include a separate title page and reference page that is formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center (Links to an external site.).

 

ABS300 Psychological Assessment

Week 3 Assignment

Review of Cognitive Assessments

Prior to beginning work on this assignment, read the required textbook chapters and articles for this week. Select two tests about which to write your review. The first test must be selected from List A and the second test must be selected from List B.  Your choice of tests include the following:

List A (Select one test from this list.)

Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-Fourth Edition (WAIS–IV)

Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children- Fifth Edition (WISC-V)

Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence- Fourth Edition (WPPSI – IV)

List B (Select one test from this list.)

Bayley Scales of Infant and Toddler Development, Fourth Edition (Bayley-4)

Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children, Second Edition,  Normative Update (KABC-II NU)

Kaufman Test of Educational Achievement, Third Edition (KTEA-3)

Sequential Tests of Educational Progress (STEP)

Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scales, Fifth Edition (SB5)

Wechsler Individual Achievement Test–Fourth Edition (WIAT- IV)

Woodcock-Johnson IV (WJ IV) Tests of Achievement

Woodcock-Johnson IV (WJ IV) Tests of Cognitive Abilities

Create a PowerPoint presentation with 10-12 slides (not including the title and reference slides) entitled Review of [Insert the name of the tests reviewed]. Your presentation must provide at least one slide for each of the required topics and include appropriate citations of your referenced sources. Separate reference slides, which follow APA formatting guidelines for a References page, must be included at the end of the presentation. You must create your own template and organize your presentation in the sequence provided. Do not use a font smaller than 18 pt. You are encouraged to insert relevant figures and graphics. Make sure to appropriately cite any images, tables, figures, or information from the test publisher’s website used.  The notes section of each slide must include the text for oral comments you would make while presenting the materials to a live audience.

Presentation notes; If you were to give the presentation live, you would not read directly from your slides. Develop speaker notes to accompany each slide and include the speaker notes in the notes section of each slide. These speaker notes must include the script you would use for the oral comments you would make while presenting the materials to a live audience. Do not save your presentation as a PDF. Upload the PowerPoint with the speaker notes included.

References must be cited according to APA guidelines as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center. (Links to an external site.) For assistance with creating a visually engaging and readable presentation, you may review Garr Reynolds’s tips for creating presentations. (Links to an external site.)

The presentation must cover each of the following topics in the order presented below. Two tests may be discussed on the same slide using the side-by-side comparison format.

Required topics to be addressed for each test:

Name of the test, author or authors, publisher and publication date of the most recent version of the test.

Qualifications of the test user: These are the academic and professional qualifications required to administer the test. This information is found on the test publisher’s website.

Common professional uses of the test.

Explain what the test is purported to measure along with any reliability and validity evidence that supports the author’s or publisher’s claims.

Subtest names and brief descriptions.

Cost to purchase the test from the publisher and the administration time.

Your critique of the instrument, including an evaluation of the test’s strengths and weaknesses.

Evaluate reviewers’ comments from at least one scholarly, peer-reviewed journal article published in the last 10 years that provides an appraisal of basic measurement issues related to the tests you selected.

The presentation

Must consist of 10 to 12 slides (not including title and reference slides) that are formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center. (Links to an external site.)

Must include a separate title slide with the following:

Title of presentation

Student’s name

Course name and number

Instructor’s name

Date submitted

Must use the assigned chapters in the course text and a minimum of 1 peer-reviewed journal article published within the last 10 years.

Must document all sources in APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.

Must include separate reference slides formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.

 

 

 

ABS300 Psychological Assessment

Week 4 Assignment

Evaluating Professional and Popular Press Self-discovery Assessments

Career counselors often use psychological assessments to assist individuals in career planning and goal-setting. There are several steps that can be helpful in the career planning process, such as conducting a self-assessment, exploring industries/careers, and determining factors that are non-negotiable (e.g., shift, location, salary, the need for specific benefits). Prior to beginning work on this assignment, you will need to read the article by Barr (2014) and take two different types of self-discovery assessment.

To begin, research VIA Character Strengths Test, O*Net Interest Profiler, and TypeFocus listed below to determine which one is of interest to you. Once you have completed your research, take one of the assessment to complete Part I of your Journal.

A. VIA Character Strengths Test

Character strengths are viewed as our positive personality they are our core capacities for thinking, feeling, and behaving in ways that can bring benefit to us and others.

To take the VIA Character Strengths assessment: follow the link to register.

VIA Character Strengths Test

https://www.viacharacter.org/Survey/Account/Register (Links to an external site.)

*Please note, the results are free and please do not pay for this assessment.

B. O*Net Interest Profiler

The assessment can help you learn about your interests as it relates to different career fields. http://www.mynextmove.org/explore/ip (Links to an external site.)

C. TypeFocus

This online assessment is designed to assess your personality type, interests, and values to assist you in making effective decisions about your career goals. TypeFocus also provides valuable information about careers that may likely be a good fit for you. Based on your results, a Career Services Specialist will guide you through the process of identifying career goals that fit your interests and personality type.

Click here to learn how to take the assessment. https://content.bridgepointeducation.com/curriculum/file/5a31c889-448e-438b-ab88-8122cd2ec0e7/1/TypeFocus_Getting_Started.pdf (Links to an external site.)

Journal Assignment Part 1: Take one of the assessments VIA Character Strengths Test, O*Net Interest Profiler, or TypeFocus. Provide the following information about the assessment in Part 1 of your journal:

Name of the test

Present your basic impressions of the test in 1-2 sentences.

Journal Assignment Part 2: Locate a free, online self-discovery assessment (e.g., career, personality, values, preferences) and take the assessment to receive your results. It is recommended that you do not take assessments that require you to submit an email address or other personal information in order to receive your results. Provide the following information about the assessment in Part 2 of your journal:

Name of the test

URL where the test is located

Present your basic impressions of the test in 1-2 sentences.

Journal Assignment Part 3: Compare and contrast the professional assessment in career services with the popular press assessment you found online. Address each of the basic measurement issue listed below.

Test content

Administration format

Administration time

Item-response format

Face validity

Homogeneity and heterogeneity

Using the test you took in Career Services as the criterion, judge the apparent criterion-related validity of the popular press assessment you located.

If you took one or both of the assessments more than once, comment on test-retest reliability based on your experience.

Conclude by critiquing the utility of the instruments.

This journal does not require you to share personal information about your mental health or any information that you deem personal and sensitive. You are not required to share your actual results. Per Standard 7.04 in the Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct, psychology instructors cannot ask students to divulge this kind of information for grading purposes. Your journal will be graded based on whether or not you provided a substantial and thoughtful evaluation of the assessment instruments and address each of the items required in the instructions.

The Journal Assignment:

Must be at least 1 single-spaced page in length (not including title and reference pages).

Title of paper

Student’s name

Course name and number

Instructor’s name

Date submitted

Must use at least 2 scholarly sources, 1 of which must be an original peer-reviewed research article, in addition to the course text.

Must document all sources in APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.

Must include a separate title page and reference page that is formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center (Links to an external site.).

 

ABS300 Psychological Assessment

Week 5 Assignment

Psychological Assessment Report

Psychological assessment reports are written by psychology professionals who work in a variety of settings. In addition, professionals in many different subfields within psychology, education and health must be able to read, understand and apply information provided in psychological assessment reports in order to effectively serve their clients. For your Final Assignment, you will demonstrate your knowledge of psychological assessment by applying the information you have learned throughout this course in the interpretation and write up of a psychological assessment report.   Your Final Project will be based on one of the case information/data tables that have been provided in the course.  The three cases consist of one adolescent assessment, one adult assessment, and one geriatric assessment.  It is expected that your Week Five final project case will be the same case that you selected in Week Two and that you incorporate feedback provided to you by your instructor on the Week Two assignment when developing your final project. To complete this assignment, you will choose the client from the list below which you chose for your Week Two assignment.

Timothy Childers (Adolescent Male)

Butcher, J. “Contemporary Use of the MMPI-2 in Forensic Assessment”, Continuing Education Course presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Association, Washington, DC, August 2014. ABS 300 Week Five Sample MMPI-A School Adolescent Male Interpretive Report Timothy Childers [PDF].

Kennedy, N. & Harper, Y. (2014). ABS 300 Week Five Final Paper Adolescent Male Case Study Timothy Childers  Download ABS 300 Week Five Final Paper Adolescent Male Case Study Timothy Childers [PDF]. College of Health, Ashford University: San Diego, CA.

Mr. Kyle Jones (Adult Male Personal Injury Case)

Butcher, J. “Contemporary Use of the MMPI-2 in Forensic Assessment”, Continuing Education Course presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Association, Washington, DC, August 2014. ABS 300 Week Five Sample MMPI-2 Adult Male Personal Injury Interpretive Report Mr. Jones  Download ABS 300 Week Five Sample MMPI-2 Adult Male Personal Injury Interpretive Report Mr. Jones  (Links to an external site.)[PDF].

Kennedy, N. & Harper, Y. (2014). ABS 300 Week Five Final Paper Adult Male Personal Injury Case Study Mr. Jones [PDF]. College of Health, Ashford University: San Diego, CA.

Mr. Jeremiah Smith (Geriatric Male Case)

Butcher, J. “Contemporary Use of the MMPI-2 in Forensic Assessment”, Continuing Education Course presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Association, Washington, DC, August 2014. ABS 300 Week Five Sample MMPI-2 Geriatric Male Interpretive Report Mr. Smith  Download ABS 300 Week Five Sample MMPI-2 Geriatric Male Interpretive Report Mr. Smith [PDF].

Kennedy, N. & Harper, Y. (2014). ABS 300 Week Five Final Paper Geriatric Male Case Study Mr. Smith  Download ABS 300 Week Five Final Paper Geriatric Male Case Study Mr. Smith[PDF]. College of Health, Ashford University: San Diego, CA.

As you write up your assessment report you will be taking on the role of a clinician who is conducting an assessment and providing treatment recommendations for the client that you choose from the list provided. You must use the information provided in case history and identify the most salient information that belongs in each section. Do not simply copy and paste the information provided. You must make a professional judgment about which information is the most important information to include in the psychological report and where to include that information in your report. Your assessment report must follow the format below and it must include each of the sections and their headings listed below:

I. Identifying Information

Within this section, you will record basic information on your client including the person’s name, sex, gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, age, handedness, and occupation or grade level. For the purposes of this assignment, you are free to create any relevant demographic information that is not explicitly stated in the case scenario. All information you create must be consistent with the information provided and any conclusions you draw in subsequent sections of your paper.

II. Reason for Referral

Within this section describe the referral source and the purpose of the assessment. The information you provide in this section must justify the decision to conduct a formal psychological assessment based and must model ethically and professionally responsible assessment practices.

III. Current Symptoms/Presenting Concerns

The information in this section of the report would typically come from an interview with the client and family (if applicable, e.g., if the client is a child or person with suspected dementia).  You must use the information provided in case history to identify the most salient information that belongs in this section. Choose information to include in this section based on the consistency with the reason for referral and purpose for testing. Here is where you will apply your methodological and theoretical assessment formulations of the client that will justify the decision to conduct a psychological evaluation on this client.

IV. Psychosocial History (complete each of the sections below based on the information in the case you selected)

Educational history

Occupational history

Medical history (including substance use/abuse)

Psychiatric history

Social history

V.  Interpretation of the Results

In this section explain your interpretation of the results in the data table provided for the case you selected.   Utilize the information available and create appropriate subheadings to organize the results.   For example, if your data table contains information on intelligence and achievement, then you should create appropriate subheadings to organize your findings in this section of the report. Create a sufficient number of subheadings to allow you to provide interpretations for all assessment instruments administered. If you have more than one measure of a particular psychological construct (e.g., personality and emotional functioning), present your interpretations of all measures that apply to that construct under the same subheading.

VI. Diagnostic Impressions

Based on the history provided and interpretation of test results, use the DSM-5 to provide a diagnosis (or diagnoses) for the client in a manner that demonstrates the ethical and professional use of assessment results.  You must justify your diagnostic conclusions based on your knowledge of the validity and reliability of the assessment instruments.  If there are multiple potential diagnoses to consider, then these must be explained and justified as well.   Also include information about alternative diagnoses and why these were not chosen.

VII. Recommendations

Within this section, provide treatment recommendations for the client based on the diagnosis and information about the client’s current living situation.  Develop recommendations that are evidence-based and include peer-reviewed articles that support your choice(s). Note: The MMPI-3 is now available. Among your other recommendations, explain how the MMPI-3 differs from the MMPI-2. Decide whether or not to recommend the client be administered the MMPI-3 and explain your rationale.

The Assignment:

Must be 5 to 7 single-spaced pages in length (not including title and reference pages).

Must include a separate title page with the following:

Title of assignment

Student’s name

Course name and number

Instructor’s name

Date submitted

Must use at least 5 scholarly sources, including a minimum of 2 peer-reviewed articles published in the last 10 years from the Ashford University Library.

Must document all sources in APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.

Must include a separate title page and reference page that is formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.