Assignment: Evaluating Mental Health Patients
Assignment: Evaluating Mental Health Patients
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Assignment: Explain how you would use your understanding of one of the major developmental theories to deal with each of the difficulties listed below:
using 4-5 paragraphs. I expect a well-developed answer that thoroughly applies the concepts and theories discussed in your text.
Explain how you would use your understanding of one of the major developmental theories to deal with each of the difficulties listed below:
a. Your infant daughter puts everything in her mouth, including the dog’s food.
b. Your eight-year old song is failing math; all he cares about is baseball.
c. Your sixty-eight-year-old neighbor is chronically depressed and feels she has waster her life.
d. Your 18-year-old daughter has decided not to go to college. Instead she’s moving to Colorado to become a ski instructor.
Prior to beginning work on this discussion, read the Cohen, et al. (2013) and Wu, et al. (2007) articles and review the and websites.
For this discussion, you will be taking on the role of the intake counselor at a mental health facility. In this role, you will facilitate the evaluation of a client based on clinical personality assessments, mental status exam, and observations of the client to make recommendations to the treatment team consisting of the clinical psychologist, counselors, and case manager for the client. Carefully review the .
In your initial post, examine the personality assessment instrument used in the scenario and research a peer-reviewed article in the Ashford University Library on this personality assessment. Using the required articles and websites as well as your researched article to support your statements, describe the standard use of this personality assessment. Based on the scenario, evaluate the reliability, validity, and cultural considerations inherent to the personality assessment used and comment on the relevance of these elements within the scenario. Analyze and describe some of the potential ethical issues which might arise from the use of this personality assessment in the given scenario. Provide information from your research regarding the use of the personality measure, and assess the value of other possible instruments that could be added to create a more complete assessment of the client in the scenario.
