oug is a very charming individual. He flirts relentlessly. He goes into many money making schemes without any remorse for the effect his endeavors have on other people’s lives.

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Directions

Name the disorder and symptoms in each of the following scenarios and describe the treatment you might suggest and why you think it is appropriate for each of the following scenarios. You can use the template below to help you organize your ideas. (Answers must be in complete sentences.)

 

Scenarios

  1. Maud is wandering around aimlessly. She often talks to herself. She appears to know no one and when police take her into custody, they cannot find any family. Maud continues to talk with “people” the police can neither see nor hear. She seems suspicious and “rambles on” about different topics.
  2. Doug is a very charming individual. He flirts relentlessly. He goes into many money making schemes without any remorse for the effect his endeavors have on other people’s lives.
  3. Jody has been afraid of dogs ever since she was bitten by one when she was four. Now twenty years later, she still refuses to visit the houses of friends who have pets.
  4. Diane blames herself for the ills of the world. She does not feel like getting out of bed each morning, or studying for the exams and assignments at school. She feels overwhelmed and as if she is sinking. She has also been putting on a lot of weight.
  5. Matthew talks fast, has been making a lot of plans for his future and gets very irritable when anyone interrupts him, or points out flaws in his reasoning. He has also been having a lot more affairs than he used to just two short months ago when he was feeling rather low.

Discuss the legal and ethical ramifications of the disorder and proposed treatments.

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This assignment has two parts, based on the client and recorded role-play from the face-to-face residency. Part 1 is the completed case conceptualization; Part 2 is the transcription analysis. Once completed, you will upload the two separate documents to the assignment area.

Part 1:  Case Conceptualization

Open the Case Conceptualization media piece (linked in the Resources) and complete the information in the online form for the tab titled “Case Conceptualization.” Be certain to review the scoring guide before you begin writing and note that integrating current peer-reviewed literature is required to meet the Distinguished criteria. The selected counseling theory should be consistent with what you applied in your recorded role-play and guide how you frame the treatment goals and interventions selected.

You do not have to complete the plan in one setting; you may save your work and return to the plan as many times as you need to complete your work. This gives you the opportunity to build your case conceptualization in stages. Once you have completed each of the sections, including an APA style reference list, you will create a PDF to be uploaded in the assignment area.

Part 2: Transcription Analysis

For this part of the assignment, you will transcribe a ten-minute segment of the recorded role-play. Use the Transcription Form (linked in Resources) to create your transcript. Be sure to complete all columns in the transcription form. Format the Transcription Form columns as follows:

  • Transcription column: Use a different row for each speaker’s words. Use “CO” for Counselor and “CL” for Client.
  • Clinical Competencies Utilized column: (“What I Did.”) Identify clinical competencies. Competencies may include application of core counseling skills, assessment questions, diagnosis, and theory-based interventions, depending on what is demonstrated in your segment of the counseling. Examples:
    • Reflection of experience.
    • Minimal simple encouragement or simple empathic statement (core counseling skills).
    • Assessment question.
    • Identifying, acknowledging, or reviewing symptoms (link to diagnosis).
    • Other responses that are specific to your chosen theoretical approach.
  • Analysis of Clinical Thinking column: (“What I Was Thinking.”) Analyze your reasoning for your response. Provide a rationale that is based on the client’s statement, your theoretical approach, or both. Identify the theoretical approach by pointing out examples of your use of the model’s main concepts. Examples:
    • “I see Audrey’s difficulty with social situations in part as being due to learned behavior” (link to theory). “Her tendency to generalize her shyness to all areas of her life keeps her from making any progress.”
    • “So, on a scale of 1 to 10, how close to your goal do you see yourself?” (Potential counselor statement in the transcription column). “Here I was using a scaling question from the solution-focused model.”
  • Evaluation of Response column: (“What I Would Do Differently Now.”) Evaluate the effectiveness of your statements and include anything you could do differently. Example:
    • “I think pointing out Audrey’s irrational thinking is important. At the same time, I now think I may be moving the process a bit too quickly. I think an empathic response would have been more effective here. I am basing this on how Audrey responded after I pointed out she was generalizing her negative thinking. I wish I had said __ .”

Requirements

You are expected to meet the following requirements.

  • Written communication: Written communication is free of errors that detract from the overall message.
  • APA formatting: Resources and citations are formatted according to APA style and formatting. A title page is not required for the transcription template submission and is not possible for the treatment plan.
  • Number of resources: Minimum of five resources. These resources must be cited in your work and a reference section should be created in the last treatment plan section.

CASE STUDY TREATMENT PLAN

For this assignment, you will further develop a treatment plan for one case study subject that you previously selected from eight possible candidates. The clients in the case studies are ethnically diverse and are struggling with a variety of mental health issues.

During the course of this project you will:

  • Evaluate client information.
  • Review possible assessment techniques.
  • Offer a diagnostic impression.
  • Review various behavioral and pharmacological treatments.
  • Discuss the legal and ethical ramifications of the disorder and proposed treatments.
  • Review the impact of diversity issues on various disorders and their treatments.
  • Develop a suggested treatment plan for the client.

CLIENT CASE

Hafsa is a 24-year-old Muslim woman. She was able to relocate to the United States when she was 18. She has been living on her own, taking college courses and working since that time. Recently, her family has been able to come to the United States and they have joined her. Her family is having trouble assimilating in the U.S. They expect Hafsa to work and support them, to always be available to take them where they want to go, and to serve as an interpreter, etcetera. Since Hafsa has been in the United States, she is less observant of the strict, traditional Muslim guidelines that her family practices (such as observance of holidays, prayers, customs of food, and abstaining from alcohol). This is a constant source of conflict within the family.

Explain how stereotypes, prejudice, and/or discrimination are impacted by media portrayals of women or men.

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To prepare for this discussion, please read Chapter 8 of your textbook. In addition, watch Jean Kilbourne: The dangerous ways ads see women (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. and Tough Guise: Violence, media & the crisis in masculinity (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.. You must also find one scholarly article to inform your thinking (see instructions below).  Finally, review Instructor Guidance and any relevant Announcements.  In this discussion, you will consider the influence of social factors on individual mental processes and behavior.  Be sure to use your own academic voice (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. and apply in-text citations (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. appropriately throughout your post.

  • Watch Jean Kilbourne:  The Dangerous Ways Ads See Women (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.(Jean Kilbourne, 2014), which examines the portrayal of women in advertising and the resulting effects on feminine identity, and Tough Guise:  Violence, Media & the Crisis in Masculinity (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.(ChallengingMedia, 2006), which examines the portrayal of men in the media and the resulting effects on masculine identity.
  • Locate a scholarly articlePreview the document examining a relevant phenomenon in relation to media and gender (e.g., when considering women in advertising, self-esteem, objectification, body shame, or perceptions of attractiveness might be particularly relevant; when considering men in the media, aggression might be particularly relevant; for both, attitudes and gender roles are relevant themes).  See the recommended articles for this week for some options.
  • Focus on women or men for your discussion, depending on the relevant phenomenon you considered in your research above.  (You will address the opposite in your replies.).
  • Examine the implications of media portrayals of women or men, given the videos you watched and the article you read.  In your discussion, include the following:
    • Explain how stereotypes, prejudice, and/or discrimination are impacted by media portrayals of women or men.
    • Interpret  the implications:
      • How might the portrayal of gender impact behavior and/or mental processes? For example, does seeing scantily clad women or “macho” men have positive or negative effects on men? How does it affect women? Support your points with examples and/or credible evidence.
    • Relate additional phenomena in American culture that that may be especially relevant to a discussion of social attitudes regarding gender.
    • Give an example of an advertisement or media program (other than one presented in the required videos) that you believe might impact attitudes.   Explain the relevance and point out specific elements that illustrate.
  • Remember to use your own academic voice (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. and apply in-text citations (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. appropriately throughout your post.

Post your initial response of 250 words or more

Discuss and evaluate how advances in technology have been utilized or incorporated with your selected test to address test items and format.

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Evaluation of Test Materials and Procedures

Resources

Evaluation of Test Materials and Procedures Scoring Guide.

List of Tests by Type [PDF].

Plagiarism in Coursework.

Learner Guide to APA Writing Feedback Rubric [PDF].

APA Style and Format.

Annotated Bibliography.

Academic Integrity and Honesty [PDF].

APA Writing Feedback Rubric [PDF].

PSY7610 Library Research Guide.

In Unit 2, you selected one standardized test that has relevancy to your academic and professional goal and focused on the first four elements of the Code for selecting a test. In Unit 5, you focused on the fifth element of the Code, which involved analyzing the evidence for technical quality of your selected test.

In Chapters 7 and 8 of your Psychological Testing and Assessment text, you have been learning about test utility, test development, item analysis, and using tests in a variety of settings and with a variety of test takers. In this assignment, you will apply those concepts to your selected test for the Code’s sixth, seventh, and eighth elements. The Code (2004) states that test users, “(6) evaluate representative samples of test questions or practice tests, directions, answer sheets, manuals, and score reports before selecting a test; (7) evaluate procedures and materials used by the test developers, as well as the resulting test, to ensure that potentially offensive content or language is avoided; and (8) select tests with appropriately modified forms or administration procedures for test takes with disabilities who need special accommodations.”

For this assignment, locate a minimum of five resources (a minimum three peer-reviewed journal articles) pertaining to your test’s construction, item development, procedures utilized in construction to minimize offensive content, and provisions of modifications and accommodations for test takers. You will not be required or need to have a copy of your test to complete this assignment. You may use many different types of references and sources to obtain this information about your test. These references may include journal articles, literature reviews, Mental Measurements Yearbook (MMY) reviews, reviews, and publisher Web sites.

Information gathering and evaluation of these elements may require a keyword search within each relevant review and research article. It may be helpful to do keyword searches within those documents with the following words: format, fair, fairness, bias, appropriate, accommodations, modifications, and computer or computer assisted. Subsequently, this particular assignment requires a deeper search and provides a broader range of sources to fulfill the minimum references. In almost all cases, you will be able to locate some level of information on these elements.

For some newer test editions, literature may be scarce. Refer back to the Lists of Tests by Type resource to see which tests are approved for supplementation with articles that address earlier editions of the tests. If the “Combined Review Allowed” column is marked “Yes,” you can supplement your review with articles addressing the designated prior version of the test.

Note: In future courses you may use the library’s Interlibrary Loan service to obtain articles outside of the collection, but you should not have to use the service for PSY7610. In the event that you cannot find articles covering a newer test edition, please refer to the List of Tests by Type in the Resources area. Note which tests have been designated as acceptable for searching prior test editions.

If you are struggling with locating sufficient information about a particular test in regard to an element in this assignment, then you will need to cite the references or reviews involved in your search and identify this element as problematic for your selected test as it lacks sufficient documentation in the literature for this code or standard.

Compose your findings into a paper using the following outline (please use these headings):

Title Page (required).

Abstract (optional).

Introduction: Identify the standardized test you selected in Unit 2, and its stated purpose.

Test items and format.

Identify type or format of test items.

Identify formats of the test that are available (including alternate forms, audio, computer, et cetera).

Identify the types of scores obtained from the test. (Include information about norms.)

Evaluate and identify or cite positive aspects of test items and formats, directions, answer sheets, and score reports.

Evaluate and identify or cite negative aspects of test items and formats, directions, answer sheets, and score reports.

Summarize the quality and appropriateness of the test items and formats, directions, answer sheets, and score reports.

Fair and appropriate materials.

Identify or cite positive and negative aspects of test materials that minimize potentially offensive content or language. Explain.

Identify or cite if the test allows appropriate modifications or accommodations. Explain how or why it does not allow such modifications or accommodations.

Cite at least one AERA standard for Supporting Documentation for Tests (see Chapter 7 of your Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing text) that are implicated in either the positive or negative aspects of your selected test.

Use of technology.

Discuss and evaluate how advances in technology have been utilized or incorporated with your selected test to address test items and format.

Discuss and evaluate how advances in technology have been utilized or incorporate with your selected test to address fair and appropriate materials.

Synthesis of findings.

Identify any major strengths you identified for your test in terms of test items and materials.

Identify any weaknesses, even if they are relative, regarding your test in terms of test items and materials.

Conclusions and recommendations.

Evaluate your selected test based on the strengths and weaknesses, and advantages and disadvantages of the test items, materials, and their appropriateness.

Make at least three recommendations about improvements that could be considered to improve the test, if applicable. Cite standards (AERA) to support each recommendation.

References (required, use current APA format and style).

Additional Requirements

Your paper should meet the following requirements:

References: A minimum of five references (a minimum of three peer-reviewed journal articles among the five).

Length of paper: At least five pages (not including title page, abstract, or references).

Reference

Joint Committee on Testing Practices. (2004). Code of fair testing practices in education. Retrieved from http://www.apa.org/science/programs/testing/fair-testing.pdf

Note: Your instructor may also use the APA Writing Feedback Rubric to provide additional feedback on your academic writing. The writing feedback rubric does not affect your assignment grade, but its feedback may factor into the grading criteria, if professional communication and writing is a course competency. Evaluate your own work using this rubric. Refer to the Learner Guide for instructions on viewing instructor feedback.