As a forensic mental health professional, what factors need to be considered in your psychological testing for the forensic assessment report?
Mock Individual Assessment (Rough Draft)
Create a mock forensic assessment report based on a patient in a selected vignette. Provide your diagnostic impressions based on the DSM-5 criteria. Name the file M4_A2_LastName_LASA_Draft.doc and submit the paper to the M4 Assignment 2 Dropbox.
Your instructor will provide feedback by critiquing the rough draft so that you can make corrections and additions to your final submission due in M5 Assignment 2 LASA.
For this assignment you are to:
Improve your interview and referral questions for the case vignette you selected in M1 Assignment 3.
Use the case vignette you selected in M1 Assignment 3 for this assignment.
Next, create and document a set of mock interview questions and potential referral questions to ask your client and yourself. You can determine the questions in relation to the case vignette that you choose.
You might also want to consider some of the example referral questions listed below.
Analyze all the information provided in the case vignette and begin to formulate a hypothesis as to why the individual needs referral.
Example Referral Questions:
As a forensic mental health professional, what factors need to be considered in your psychological testing for the forensic assessment report?
What behavioral observations do you make about the client by reading the case vignette?
What are your assessment options in working with the client?
What standards and accepted psychological tests might you apply to your client in forensic settings? Select from the instruments you researched in M3 Assignment 2 RA.
How will you recognize and evaluate your client’s offender behaviors associated with malingering and deception?
What theoretical orientation do you want to use in this case for your treatment recommendations?
What is the case scenario you have selected?
What is the reason for referral?
What is the purpose of the forensic assessment and report?
What is the nature of the problem presented in your selected case vignette?
What is the context in which the forensic assessment report will be used?
What is the background of your client? What are the symptoms displayed by your client and the significance they have in this case?
What is the mental status of your client? Be sure to elaborate on every major component addressed in the mental status examination.
What interview type and approach did you use with your client?
What tests are appropriate to use in your forensic assessment report? Identify one intelligence test, one objective personality test, and one projective test.
What collateral information will you use in the process of the evaluation?
How will you present your impressions of the client?
Write a Forensic Mental Health Professional Individual Assessment Report.
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