Assignment 2: Mock Individual Assessment (Rough Draft)

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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 Submissions Area.

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.Use the Forensic Mental Health Professional Individual Assessment Report template (you can download the template from this link).Evaluate and interpret the information provided to you in the case vignette that you have selected in M1 Assignment 3. Synthesize the information you collected to create a Forensic Mental Health Professional Individual Assessment Report. Your findings should be in a report format.In a 10- to 12-page report, include only the following components:
    • Reason for Referral: Explain the objective of your case vignette analysis, clearly bringing out the aspects or reasons that motivated you to carry out the study.
    • Presentation: Create mock interview data and collateral information (you are to identify the questions to ask in the interview). Provide a synopsis of the interview. Provide data to support the mental status of your client, based on your forensic assessment report and the mental status components you have identified.
    • Current Life Situation and Background Information: Explain the problem provided in your selected case vignette using the interview and mental status data. How does the data relate to the background of your client and your behavioral observations?
    • Objective Testing: Identify the assessment instruments you would recommend to evaluate the client and explain the rationale for your recommendations. Describe the objective tests you have selected and their use. How did you apply these tests to your selected case vignette? Based on your study, what is your analysis of the symptoms displayed by your client? What ethical and multicultural issues do you need to address? You will apply what you have learned from M3 Assignment 2 RA into this section.
    • Provide your diagnostic impressions based on DSM-5 criteria. What is your principal diagnosis? What is your secondary diagnosis? Are there other conditions that may be the focus of clinical attention to consider?
    • Conclusion and Recommendations: What is your hypothesis based on the mental status examination, the interview, personality tests, and symptoms analysis? Explain your hypothesis and substantiate it, using instances from your case study. Discuss your results with conclusions and recommendations.

The final Forensic Mental Health Professional Individual Assessment Report should contain all the assigned components and the corresponding information.

Your final deliverables for this module are:

  • Selected case vignette
  • List of interview/referral questions
  • Assessment template
  • Final assessment report

Your report should be approximately of 12–15 pages.

Submission Details:

  • By the due date assigned, compile your report in a Microsoft Word document, save it as M4_A2_Lastname_Firstname.doc, and submit it to the Submissions Area.
Assignment 2 Grading CriteriaMaximum Points
Created a set of mock interview questions appropriate to the selected case vignette.

12

Created a set of referral questions appropriate to the selected case vignette.

12

Formulated a hypothesis on why the individual needs referral.

8

Included all the appropriate and necessary information in the Reason for Referral section.

12

Included all the appropriate and necessary information in the Presentation section.

12

Included all the appropriate and necessary information in the Current Life Situation and Background Informationsection.

8

Included all the appropriate and necessary information in the Objective Testing section.

8

Included all the appropriate and necessary information in the Diagnostic Impressions section.

8

Included all the appropriate and necessary information in the Conclusion and Recommendations section.

12

Wrote in a clear, concise, and organized manner; demonstrated ethical scholarship in accurate representation and attribution of sources; displayed accurate spelling, grammar, and punctuation.

8

Total:

100

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Running head: FORENSIC MENTAL HEALTH ASSESSMENT REPORT

Forensic Mental Health Assessment Report
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Introduction
Mental health is very essential for a person to behave and reason effectively. Having a
mental disorder can lead to an individual acting in an unexpected way. For this reason, the
actions of a person having mental disorders should not be used to judge him or her. Sometimes
people with mental disorders commit offenses and end up being convicted for their actions.
Whenever the judge realizes the actions of the defendant might have been due to a mental
disorder, the may request for a mental check up on the individual. The report from the healthcare
facilities on the mental stability of the accused is used to judge them accordingly. A Forensic
Mental Health Professional Individual Assessment Report has to be relied on to determine the
root cause for the actions of the convicted person. This way, the judges are able to make the right
decisions hence promote justice in the society. Cases involving persons with mental disorders
have to be handled with a lot of care in order to ensure justice is served to the aggrieved party. In
cases where the actions of the defendant were as a result of their mental disorder, the judge will
be lenient on the defendant. The accused can be referred not guilty by reason of insanity.
Reason for Referral
Mr. H is accused of committing murder for allegedly shooting and killing his neighbor
over loud music at night. Mr. H deliberately shot the neighbor for playing loud music at night
which made a lot of noise. Mr. H, however, defends himself by saying that on the day he shot the
neighbor, he heard the voice of God telling him to end the noise in the neighborhood as it was
disturbing the angels. For this reason, he decided to end the noise by shooting the neighbor who
played the music. This way, he was able to end the loud noise which disturbed the neighborhood.
The actions of Mr. H led to him being convicted of murder charges. The behaviors of Mr. H,
however, show that he might be suffering from a mental disorder which led to him committing

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the murder. He has been reported having auditory hallucinations as a result of increased stress.
This is a clear indication that he might be having a mental disorder.
Forensic assessment should, therefore, be carried out on Mr. H in order to determine
whether they suffer from any mental disorder or not. The hallucinations and depressions that Mr.
H has been a having are clear indicators that he might be suffering from a mental disorder. His
behaviors and actions at the time of committing the murder might have been influenced by a
mental disorder. For this reason, a forensic report will be useful in the determination of this case.
A forensic Mental Health Professional Individual Assessment should, therefore, be conducted on
Mr. H in order to determine his mental stability at the time of committing the crime. Mental
disorder influences the thinking of a person hence impacting their actions significantly. A person
with a mental disorder can commit a serious crime without their intention hence before any
judgment is made on such individuals, a forensic report is very essential (Buchanan & Wootton,
2017). It will help determine whether the accused person committed the crime intentionally or
their actions were influenced by the mental disorder they are suffering from. If the actions were
as a result of a mental disorder, then the accused person will not be guilty as his actions were
influenced by the mental disorder. Carrying out a Forensic Mental Health Professional Individual
Assessment is therefore very essential for individuals who have committed a crime and their
actions and behaviors indicates a possibility of a mental disorder.
Since Mr. H demonstrated behaviors and actions that indicate he might be suffering from
a mental disorder, a forensic mental health assessment should be carried out on him. This way, it
would be determined if his actions were as a result of mental disorder or not. The objective of the
Forensic Mental Health Professional Individual Assessment will be to generate an accurate and
honest report to aid in the court trial for Mr. H. The report from the assessment will be used to

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determine whether to send Mr. H to a mental health facility or not. The murder trials will,
therefore, depend on the forensic report generated out of the assessment. The hallucinations,
increased loss, and stress all indicate that Mr. H might be having a mental disorder hence a
mental health assessment should be carried out on him. As a mental health professional, I would
conduct a mental health assessment to enable the court to determine whether to send Mr. H to a
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