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The Psychological Assessment For this assignment, you will
administer and conduct a psychological assessment that includes an assessment
interview and a test battery.
For this assignment, you will:
Based on an analysis of
your results, you will address questions such as:
Your report must be
typed. It must be presented in a
professional manner. You must model
your report on the example presented in class (also see Whiston,
pages 102-105 and Erford, pages 167-197)). You will be assigned to
pair up with one of your classmates and will use each other as clients for
this evaluation/case study. In this
case, you will conduct an assessment interview with and administer the tests
to your “client” and then analyze and write-up the results in the form of an
assessment report. You will use the counseling
lab (or space provided at the Arrowhead Campus) and to conduct your interview
session and the computers in the lab (or Arrowhead Computer Lab) to
administer your computer based tests. In the event that there is
an odd number in class, then see me for an alternative arrangement. The purpose of this
assignment is to provide you with first hand experience of psychological
assessment. This assignment is
designed to provide you with the experience of administering, scoring, interpreting,
and reporting a full formal assessment including a test battery. For the purpose of this
assignment, the test battery will include the following tests:
and
either:
As discussed in class, this
is not
a typical battery; rather, the composition of this battery is intended to
give you exposure to several types of tests and testing applications, which
include objective, projective, standardized, simple inventories, and computer
administered assessment tools. Each of
the tests included in this battery will allow you to gather specific kinds of
data about the client, and this data will provide you with the information
necessary to create a comprehensive psychological assessment and profile of
the client. For this assignment, you
will assume the role of a counselor either in a school or a
clinical/agency setting.
In an effort to assist this
client, you will administer the battery outlined below. This battery will provide you with some
clinical, vocational, cognitive and personality measures which will allow you
to 1) assess vocational interests, 2) assess personality characteristics, and
3) assess for possible cognitive deficits and/or learning disability, and 4) clinical
issues that could impact this client in their vocational or academic
endeavors. You will meet with your
client one or two times as needed to conduct a clinical interview
(psychosocial history) and administer the test battery (the SDS is done via
the web and you may request that the client take this from home and bring a
copy of the report to you). You will
use either the counseling lab or space provided at the Arrowhead Campus for
this purpose. You will then score your
tests, interpret your results and write up a psychological report of your
findings and recommendations. Administering the Battery
Although the battery can
be administered in any order, it is recommended that the more time consuming tests
(the personality tests) be administered first which will take approximately
30 – 40 minutes each to complete.
Next, The BASI and the Shipley/GAMA.
Finally, the SCL-90-R, QOLI, Beck Depression Inventory, and Beck
Anxiety Index should be administered.
Each of these will take approximately 5 to 20 minutes to
complete. Finally, have the client
take the SDS (on their own) and bring you a copy of
the report (www.self-directed-search.com/). All paper-pencil tests can
be given to the client at once with instructions for each. The computer based
tests may either be taken directly on the computer – preferred – (in the Arrowhead
Computer Lab or the Counseling Lab) or via paper/pencil and then scored on
the computer. All tests administered in Q
Local are exported in a trq file and emailed to Dr.
C. for scoring. Instruct your client to complete each test as
follows:
The SCL-90-R, 16PF, TJA and
the QOLI are administered as follows.
Upon completion, collect
any test materials and ask the client if she or he has any questions or
comments about the process. Note the
approximate amount of time that the battery took. If the client took much more or less time
than would be expected, this may indicate that the client had difficulty with
a test or that the client did not take the tests seriously or give them
careful consideration. Either would be
worthy of note in the report. Scoring and Interpretation
Scoring and interpretation
the Beck Depression Inventory and the Beck Anxiety Index is self
explanatory. For Q Local Tests:
·
Please save the
file with your name and date (eg, smith_9_07)
The Rotter
Incomplete Sentences Blank is a projective, non-standardized test. Although techniques for generating a more
objective score have been published, the test is typically used in its more
subjective form. Look at the way that
the client responded to each item.
What does the content tell you about the client? Are there common themes (loneliness, loss,
anger, fear, happiness, love, etc.) in the responses? What is the attitude of
the client in her or his responses?
Are the answers positive, negative, indifferent, simple, complex? What do the responses suggest about the
client’s relationships with others, about work life, home life, etc.? The insights gained from the Sentence
Completion Test are limited only by your imagination. The data can tell you a great deal about
the client. Writing the Report
For the purpose of this
assignment, your psychological report must follow the format of the sample supplied by the
instructor. The report should include:
Total assignment is worth 400 points* * This
assignment is designated as evidence of fulfilling certain standards of the
NCATE and CACREP accrediting bodies. This means that this assignment is seen
as an indicator of minimum standards of professional competency necessary to
enter the field ready to practice. This assignment will be rated as
follows:
Your mastery of the knowledge, skills,
and dispositions of course materials will be measured by your work on this
comprehensive assignment. To pass this course you must successfully
receive a rating of “Met with Weakness” or higher. Students who receive a rating of “Not
Met” will be offered a chance to improve the assignment. Students will be
given one month after receipt of the grade to redo the work and receive an
acceptable rating before they may pass the course. If, after this second attempt, the student
still receives a rating of “Not Met”, then this will result in an earned
grade of C for this course – regardless of the combined total points earned
in other course assignments. No exceptions will be made to this rule.
Students who receive a C must repeat the course at Heidelberg College. Beck Depression Inventory Instructions: As you fill out the
questionnaire, read each item carefully and circle the number next to the
answer that best reflects how you have been feeling the past few days. Make sure you circle one answer for each of
the twenty-one questions. If more that
one answer applies to how you have been feeling, circle the higher
number. If in doubt, make your best
guess. Do not leave any questions unanswered.
1. 0 I
do not feel sad. 1 I feel sad. 2 I
am sad all the time, and I can’t snap out of it. 3 I
am so sad or unhappy that I can’t stand it. 2. 0 I
am not particularly discouraged about the future. 1 I feel discouraged about the future. 2 I
feel I have nothing to look forward to. 3 I
feel that the future is hopeless and that things cannot improve. 3. 0 I
do not feel like a failure. 1 I feel I have failed more than the average
person. 2 As
I look back on my life, all I can see is a lot of failures. 3 I
feel that I am a complete failure as a person. 4. 0 I
get as much satisfaction out of things as I used to. 1 I don’t enjoy things the way I used to. 2 I
don’t get real satisfaction out of anything anymore. 3 I
am dissatisfied of bored with everything. 5. 0 I
don’t feel particularly guilty. 1 I feel guilty a good part of the time. 2 I
feel quite guilty most of the time. 3 I
feel guilty all of the time. 6. 0 I
don’t feel I’m being punished. 1 I feel I may be punished. 2 I
expect to be punished. 3 I
feel I am being punished. 7. 0 I
don’t feel disappointed in myself. 1 I am disappointed in myself. 2 I
am disgusted with myself. 3 I
hate myself. 8. 0 I
don’t feel that I am any worse than anybody else. 1 I am critical of myself for my weaknesses
or mistakes. 2 I
blame myself all of the time for my faults. 3 I
blame myself for everything bad that happens. 9. 0 I
don’t have any thoughts of killing myself. 1 I have thoughts of killing myself, but I
would not carry them out. 2 I
would like to kill myself. 3 I
would kill myself if I had the chance. 10. 0 I
don’t cry any more than usual. 1 I cry more now than I used to. 2 I
cry all the time now. 3 I
used to be able to cry, but now I can’t cry even though I want to. 11. 0 I
am no more irritated by things than I ever am. 1 I am slightly more irritated now than
usual. 2 I
am quite annoyed or irritated a good deal of the time. 3 I
feel irritated all of the time now. 12. 0 I
have not lost interest in other people. 1 I am less interested in other people than
I used to be. 2 I
have lost most of my interested in other people. 3 I
have lost all of my interest in other people. 13. 0 I
make decisions about as well as I ever could. 1 I put of making decisions more than I used
to. 2 I
have greater difficulty making decisions than before 3 I
can’t make decisions at all anymore. 14. 0 I
don’t feel that I look any worse than I used to. 1 I am worried that I’m looking old or
unattractive. 2 I
feel that there are permanent changes in my appearance that make me look unattractive. 3 I
believe that I look ugly. 15. 0 I
can work about as well as before. 1 I takes an extra
effort to get started doing something. 2 I
have to push myself hard to do anything. 3 I
can’t do any work at all. 16. 0 I
can sleep as well as usual. 1 I don’t sleep as well as I used to. 2 I
wake up 1 - 2 hours earlier than I used to and find it hard to get back to
sleep. 3 I
wake up several hours earlier than I used to and cannot get back to sleep. 17. 0 I
don’t get more tired than I used to. 1 I get more tired than I used to. 2 I
get tired from doing almost anything. 3 I
am too tired to do anything. 18. 0 My
appetite is no worse than usual. 1 My appetite is not as good as it used to
be. 2 My
appetite is much worse now. 3 I
have no appetite at all. 19. 0 I
haven’t lost much weight, if any, lately. 1 I have lost more than five pounds. 2 I
have lost more than ten pounds. 3 I
have lost more than fifteen pounds. 20. 0 I
am no more worried about my health than usual. 1 I
am worried about physical problems such as aches and pains, or upset stomach or constipation. 2 I
am very worried about physical problems and it’s hard to think about much
else. 3 I
am so worried about my physical problems that I cannot think about anything
else. 21. 0 I
have not noticed any recent change in my interest in sex. 1 I am less interested in sex than I used to
be. 2 I
am much less interested in sex now. 3 I
have lost interest in sex completely. |
