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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 [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).
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
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Running head: EVALUATION OF TIMOTHY CHILDERS1
Evaluation of Timothy Childers
Sher-Kona Malcom
ABS 300: Psychological Assessment
Dr. Julian Achim
April 8, 2019
EVALUATION OF TIMOTHY CHILDERS
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Evaluation of Timothy Childers
I. Identifying information
The patient I will be evaluating is Timothy Childers, he was born and raised in Minnesota
and is 15 years old in the 10th grade, and he is right-handed. Timothy identifies as “other” for his
ethnicity due to his background including Anishinaabe, Scottish, French and Irish. However, due
to his mostly European background, Timothy could be considered Caucasian. Timothy has
parents who have been married since before he was born, and two siblings (an older brother and
sister). He also has a dog named Lucky. For the Childers family, there is no family history of a
learning disability, and his older sister even seemed to do well in school as she was in honors
classes. Timothy seems to love and care about his sibling and even stated that he admires his
sister for standing up to their parents.
II. Reason for referral
Timothy is being referred for a neuropsychological evaluation because his parents and his
teacher, based off a school report, seem to think that there could be a potential learning
disability. “In general, the process of assessment begins with a referral for assessment from a
source such as a teacher, school psychologist, counselor, judge, clinician or corporate human
resources specialist.” Cohen, Swerdlik & Sturman (2018) His mother first noticed that there was
an issue with Timothy’s academics and behavior while he was in the 1st grade. His mother
noticed that he seemed to struggle to keep focus or staying on task, that he was having issues
with vocabulary and grammar, and issues doing things that involve more than one task because
he will sometimes miss an essential step in completing his process. His mom noticed that while
he never really had issues with his math, his teachers seem to have an issue because his work
would be correct. But Timothy would not be showing how he solved the problems which have
caused doubt in his teachers’ mind about how honest Timothy is in his work to get those
answers. There also was the fact that Timothy also struggled with grammar and vocabulary and
his focus all seemed to be off as which in turn is causing Timothy to miss essential steps in
projects.
III. Current Symptoms/Presenting Concerns
After evaluating Timothy and his mother and using the information provided in his
school interpretative report there seemed to be several concerns with the way Timothy behaves at
school and home. One of those issues was the way that he completes tasks. He sometimes forgets
essential steps in the tasks which causes the whole task to fail and not get completed properly.
According to his mother, Timothy has been pretty average in school for his age. There were
some issues that his mother felt he had when it came to Timothy's focus and how he behaves by
acting on impulse. His mother also indicated that she sees Timothy as having difficulty with
organizing things like his room or his school work. He and also does not feel that he does not
need sequencing steps to achieve a goal. That being said Timothy seems to do well at Math and
does well with numbers he only doesn't show his work because it involves him having to
sequence the problems into step by step instructions which seems to be an issue for Timothy
since the 1st grade.
EVALUATION OF TIMOTHY CHILDERS
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The concern that Timothy doesn't seem to do well with focus and is not good at
sequencing and organizing could be equated to his ag...
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