If I were in the shoes of Josephine Schmoe, I would most probably feel overwhelmed to receive results as the ones issued by the personality assessments administered to her: MMPI-2 and MCMI-III. The test results might suggest that Josephine suffers from a personality disorder. If the test results are actually accurate, these can help Josephine to receive appropriate treatment and medication to help her function and cope more effectively with all she is handling. On the other hand, if these results are not correct, these can cause more harm to her such as causing depression, isolating her from friends and loved ones, or even worst: receive a referral to a psychiatric hospital due to their suicidal idealizations.…
Using alcohol after becoming aware of physical side effects is another option for a diagnosis. A desire to reduce or control use of alcohol is another option. Reducing involvement in events is another. Therefore, Warner is qualified to become diagnosed with alcohol use disorder. Warner’s relationship with alcohol isn’t a functional one.…
Test and Dot Counting Test) on which he obtained scores indicating he was not feigning memory impairment or exhibiting motivational difficulties, which lends to the validity of the testing results and information disclosed during the clinical interview. There does not appear to be a cause for concern for Mr. Moreno’s learning or memory abilities at this time. Mr. Moreno was administered the WTAR. Mr. Moreno’s cognitive outcomes were stable and average in performance. The estimate of Mr. Moreno’s premorbid Full-Scale IQ was 84 plus or minus 15 points or likely falling in the Low Average Range in the 14-percentile range.…
Summary Mr. Smith was referred for a complete battery of tests to help determine his cognitive and psychiatric functioning, treatment recommendations, and his suicide risk level. The patient is currently hospitalized at a locked inpatient psychiatric institute for new onset psychosis in the wake of excessive alcohol and cocaine use. He was found stumbling outside of a large fraternity party on the local college campus yelling loudly and walking into traffic. Witnesses to this event described Mr. Smith incoherent, speaking nonsensically, and aggressive.…
Theodore has tried: rehab, jail, and detox and each time he wasn’t successful with his battle against his addiction. His addiction has stood in his way more than one time. Therefore, his addictive lifestyle made his life very difficult. Although Theodore hasn’t given up his fight for his sobriety, and with the help support of his family, he is steps closer to winning the fight for his life. He was later accepted into a program that helped people fight addiction, and at first, Theodore was reluctant to even try.…
Another basic criticism of his methods was , it was more open to biased than other methods as he only collected data on the base of his own subjective interpretation. Vygotsky and Bruner also criticize his schema theory as it can not be observed because of it’s being a internal process. According to hughges , he underestimated the ability of children’s as sometimes his tests were confusing and difficult…
Russian researchers in the late 1940s kept five people awake for fifteen days using an experimental gas based stimulant. They were kept in a sealed environment to carefully monitor their oxygen intake so the gas didn't kill them, since it was toxic in high concentrations. This was before closed circuit cameras so they had only microphones and five inch thick glass porthole sized windows into the chamber to monitor them. The chamber was stocked with books, cots to sleep on but no bedding, running water and toilet, and enough dried food to last all five for over a month.…
People who have had traumatic experiences in their childhoods are more vulnerable to experiencing addiction. Elijah’s past was somber, lonely and unfortunate because he was raised in a residential school and grew up as an orphan. Growing up in such…
1. Strength and weakness for clinical assessment, structured professional judgment, and actuarial assessment a. Clinical assessment i. One primary strength of the clinical assessment is the relatively low cost and time commitment required to complete this task. ii. One weakness with clinical assessments is that clinicians are required to rely heavily on clinical judgment to assess the examinees risk for violence, to reoffend, etc. Unfortunately, research and experiences illustrated that clinical judgment (i.e., interrater reliability) is not very accurate.…
PURPOSE OF EVALUATION Mr. Doe is being evaluated for the purpose of addressing his immediate mental health concerns. His goals include, but are not limited to, receiving an assessment of his condition, establishing a treatment plan, and discussing possible intervention options which may lead to general improvements of his life. The main goal of this interview is to produce a preliminary bio-psycho-social-spiritual assessment of the client and to highlight his capacity for resiliency. METHOD Mr. Doe is being interviewed by me, Edgar Rondon, an MSW candidate at Barry University, as part of an assignment for Dr. Singleton’s class on clinical assessments. The interview process is being conducted in the home of Mr. Doe.…
Also, tests were done in the laboratory setting involving behavioral tests, and cognitive tests. The results showed no significance (p > 0.05). One of the best factors to measure other than pure testing was the “Attending to…
Adams Hayes and Hopson devised a model where they describe the stages in which a person goes through in a period of transition and describes the behaviours associated. There are 7 stages of transition. These stages are immobilisation, minimisation, depression, acceptance, testing, searching and internalising. According to Adams Hayes and Hopson Loss is also a transition and is more commonly associated with the death of a loved one but a loss can also mean illness, disability or separation.…
Critical Analysis Essay: Chapter Three Throughout the chapter, " On Being Sane in Insane Places: EXPERIMENTING WITH PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSIS," Lauren Slater introduces David Rosenhan 's experiment and his emphasis on improper diagnosis. This chapter reviews Rosenhan 's original experiment and a duplicate, but the results slightly differ. The conflicts faced in these experiments are mislabeling with improper diagnosis and unfair treatment, while being admitted into a state hospital. Slater does an outstanding job explaining Rosenhan 's experiment, his findings, her version of the experiment, and her findings.…
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales is a book describing the case histories of some patients of the author, Dr. Oliver Sacks. The book was first published by Gerald Duckworth & Co. Ltd in 1985. The electronic edition was published in 2010 by Picador, an imprint of Pan Macmillan. The author, Dr. Oliver Sacks, is a British-American physician and a professor of neurology and psychiatry at the NYU School of Medicine and a visiting professor at the University of Warwick. He is also a bestselling author and has twelve books.…
George A. Kelly is an American psychologist that is still considered the father of cognitive clinical psychology. Kelly focused on two points of view, behavior and psychoanalytic outlooks. Kelly chose a psychotherapy approach, non-invasive, compared to observing humans as subjects who associate behaviors with reinforcement and punishment experiments. His personal construct psychology theory is important because it is devised on a cognitive basis, that a construct is how an individual observes and interprets the world around them. Constructs provide meaning behind predictions and interpretations of life experiences, they are not static.…