Description
By the due date assigned, submit to the M5 Assignment 2 a mock forensic assessment report based on a patient in a selected vignette. Provide your diagnostic impressions based on the DSM-5 criteria.
Complete the following:
- Improve your interview and referral questions for the case vignette you selected in M1 Assignment 3.Using this case vignette, add to your referral questions by integrating the feedback that you received from your instructor in M4 Assignment 2 on your mock interview questions and formulated hypothesis on why the individual needs the referral.
Example Referral Questions:
- As a forensic mental health professional, what factors do you need to consider in your psychological testing for the forensic assessment report?
- What are the pertinent multicultural consideration?
- 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 standard and accepted psychological tests might you apply to your client in a forensic setting? 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 that 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 their significance 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?
- Revise your copy of Forensic Mental Health Professional Individual Assessment Report on the basis of your instructor's feedback.Using the Forensic Mental Health Professional Individual Assessment Report template that you downloaded for M4 Assignment 2, revise your evaluation and interpretation of the information provided to you in the case vignette that you selected. 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. To support the mental status of your client, provide data 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 and multicultural characteristics 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? According to 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 to 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 after taking into account the mental status examination, the interview, personality tests, and the symptom analysis? Explain your hypothesis and substantiate it using instances from your case study. Discuss your results with conclusions and recommendations.The final version of Forensic Mental Health Professional Individual Assessment Report should contain all the assigned components and the corresponding information and include revisions and improvements based on your feedback from M4 Assignment 2.
- Synthesize the data and write a reflection statement in 2–3 pages.In a separate document, address the following:
- Describe your professional role and relationship with the court and the third party requesting the assessment or evaluation.
- Explain the hypothesis you have formulated.
- Explain why you chose the tests for the assessment of the client.
- Discuss potential ethical dilemmas that might arise in your assessment of the client.
- Discuss the pertinent multicultural perspectives you considered.
- Explain how you would prepare yourself to defend your evaluation in the court setting or to relevant third parties. Be sure to support your explanation with professional literature.
- If you recommended treatment for your client, discuss the evidence-based approaches used with the disorder you diagnosed.
- Discuss the influence of cultural factors on the assessment process.The final version of Forensic Mental Health Professional Individual Assessment Report should contain all the assigned components and the corresponding information and include revisions and improvements based on your feedback from M4 Assignment 2.
- Synthesize the data and write a reflection statement in 2–3 pages.In a separate document, address the following:
- Describe your professional role and relationship with the court and the third party requesting the assessment or evaluation.
- Explain the hypothesis you have formulated.
- Explain why you chose the tests for the assessment of the client.
- Discuss potential ethical dilemmas that might arise in your assessment of the client.
- Discuss the pertinent multicultural perspectives you considered.
- Explain how you would prepare yourself to defend your evaluation in the court setting or to relevant third parties. Be sure to support your explanation with professional literature.
- If you recommended treatment for your client, discuss the evidence-based approaches used with the disorder you diagnosed.
- Discuss the influence of cultural factors on the assessment process.
Your final deliverables are:
- A selected case vignette
- A list of interview and referral questions
- The assessment template
- The final assessment report
- A reflection statement
Your report and reflection statement combined should be approximately 12–15 pages. You are to utilize outside resources in your reflection statement only.
All written assignments and responses should follow APA rules for attributing sources.
Submission Details:
- By the due date assigned, compile your report and reflection statement in a Microsoft Word document, save it as M5_A2_Lastname_Firstname.doc, and submit it to the Submissions Area.
The LASA is worth 300 points and will be graded according to the following rubric:
Assignment 3 Grading Criteria | Proficient | Maximum Points |
Create a list of mock-interview questions that you would ask the person in your selected vignette. | Creation of mock-interview question list is based on a chosen vignette and it is appropriate and complete. | 48 |
Create a list of referral questions in relation to your chosen vignette. | Created referral question list in relation to one's chosen vignette is complete and appropriate | 48 |
Discuss pertinent multicultural considerations for interview and referral questions, assessments, findings and recommendations. | Questions are multiculturally sensitive and appropriate. Cultural influences are noted in the selection of assessments. Cultural sensitivity is evident in the findings and recommendations. | 48 |
Synthesize all of the information to create a complete Forensic Mental Health Professional Individual Assessment Report that includes all required components (i.e. reason for referral, presentation data, background data, objective testing) and based on diagnostic impressions based on DSM-5. | Synthesis of the information to create a complete Forensic Mental Health Professional Individual Assessment Report that includes all required components (i.e. reason for referral, presentation data, background data, objective testing) and based on diagnostic impressions based on DSM-IV-TR is complete, concise and accurate. | 64 |
Synthesize data and write a reflection Statement answering all seven required questions. | Analysis of data in the form of a Reflection Statement answering all seven required questions is complete, detailed and accurate. Several outside resources were utilized. | 64 |
Writing is generally clear and in an organized manner. It demonstrates ethical scholarship in accurate representation and attribution of sources; and generally displays accurate spelling, grammar, punctuation. Errors are few, isolated, and do not interfere with reader's comprehension. Citations in text and at the end of the document are in correct APA format. | Writing is generally clear and in an organized manner. It demonstrates ethical scholarship in accurate representation and attribution of sources; and generally displays accurate spelling, grammar, punctuation. Errors are few, isolated, and do not interfere with reader's comprehension. Citations in text and at the end of the document are in correct APA format. | 28 |
Total: | 300 |
Explanation & Answer
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Running Head: FORENSIC MENTAL HEALTH
Forensic Mental Health
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Forensic Mental Health
Introduction
Mental health is the state of having an emotional, behavioral, and social maturity or
normality, a state where an individual has attained a satisfactory integration of one’s instinctual
drives that are acceptable to oneself and the social surrounding of the being. People with mental
health can be differentiated from people having mental health problems. The mental health
problems are a way in which an individual can lose their behavioral patterns and develop
psychological symptoms. An individual having mental health disorder is unable to pass a fair
judgment about his/her actions, and thus they cannot be judged out of what the action they
take (Weathers, 2018). Therefore, when an individual behaves in a certain manner, it is necessary
that you conduct a test of their mental health before making any judgment towards them. Various
types have presented that exhibit the characterization of mental health disorders such as
neurodevelopmental disorder, bipolar related disorders, anxiety disorders, trauma and stressorrelated disorders, and dissociative disorders.
When a judge is faced with a case that shows that the individual convicted of the offense
might have mental health problems, it is necessary for forensic mental health test to be conducted
before the judgment is delivered. The judge has to request for a forensic mental health
professional individual assessment report. The report enables the judge to deliver the right and
confident judgment about the case (Winnicott, 2016). The judgment of the case should ensure
that the aggrieved party receives justice while the judge can also be required to become lenient to
the defendant. It is also the responsibility of healthcare practitioners such as psychiatrist,
psychologist and psychiatric nurses to engage in finding out the condition that the patient might
be having and then issuing a report to the responsible judges to make their judgment. The mental
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health professionals should, therefore, ensure that they produce the best results and that does
cause confusion to the law experts.
Reason for referral
The case to be examined is a man who is accused of committing murder where he
allegedly shot and killed his neighbor whom he blamed of playing loud music at night in the
neighborhood. The defendant argued that it was out of Gods conviction that he should find a way
out to finish the noise and the only possible way was through killing the neighbor. Therefore,
listening to the defense provided by the defendant a judge could be worried by the health
condition of the individual. The objective of this study was to determine whether the behavior
that is evidenced by the defendant was as a result of mental disorder and whether it had a
connection to the murder that he had committed.
The defendant has a record of having auditory hallucinations that are connected to the
increased stress. The behavior of the defendant is a clear indicator that he might have developed
some mental disorder. Therefore, there was a need for conducting a forensic assessment, that will
determine whether the defendant had a mental disorder or not. A mental disorder might have
influenced the murder of the neighbor. The report will be useful in determining the reason why
the defendant committed the murder. The report can only be obtained by conducting a forensic
mental health professional individual assessment. Mental disorder influences the thinking of a
person; hence it influences their actions significantly (Winnicott, 2016). People can be
influenced to act illegally without themselves intending to act in such a way.
Therefore a forensic report is essential before making any judgment. If the person is
found to have some mental disorder, their actions will not be judged since they have not
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committed the crime intentionally but under the influence of mental disorder. The forensic
mental health assessment is a specialization that is informed through conducting research on the
mental wellbeing of a person, and that is organized around the particular legal issue that brings
the focus of a given assessment. The objective of the case analysis is to determine whether the
defendant is under normal mental health or under the influence of mental disorder to enable the
making of the right judgment. I was motivated to analyze by the reasons that were raised by the
defendant in his defense, and that could prove that there was something wrong with his mental
capability.
Presentation of an interview
The forensic test conducted was through the use of questions that were directed towards
the defendant and that were used to evaluate his level of mental health and such could be used to
find out the problem with his psychology. The questions were designed in such a manner that
they could lead a personality disorder to give unclear answers and they were not open such as to
be connected to the murder. At first, there was avoidance of murder related question since this
could disrupt the feedback o...