Components of Course Evaluation” section of this guide. To complete this assignment, you will choose one of the following clients.

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For this assignment, you will write the first four sections of the psychological assessment report that will be completed in Week Five. Taking on the role of a psychological evaluator, you will formulate vitally important methodological and theoretical assessment conceptualizations of a client during the initial phases of the assessment process. You will apply your conceptualizations to develop a clear understanding of the presenting concerns. In the initial sections of your psychological assessment report, you will summarize results obtained from examining the following information pertaining to your client: identifying information, reason for referral, presenting concerns, and relevant personal history. The content of this section must demonstrate an ethically and professionally responsible rationale for the use of psychological assessment tools. View the complete instructions for the Final Paper in the link within Week Five of your online course or the “Components of Course Evaluation” section of this guide. To complete this assignment, you will choose one of the following clients.

Timothy Childers (Adolescent Male)

Mr. Kyle Jones (Adult Male Personal Injury Case)

Mr. Jeremiah Smith (Geriatric Male Case)

This week, your assignment must cover the following sections of your psychological assessment report and include the headings as listed:

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

Your assignment must be of sufficient depth and detail to support and inform your eventual diagnostic impressions. A cursory or surface level review of the client’s presenting problem and history will unlikely provide enough information for your diagnostic impression. The assignment must also include a page with relevant references based on your initial impressions of possible diagnostic considerations from the history that you have reviewed.

The Assignment: 

  • Must be at least 2.5 to 3 single-spaced pages in length (not including title and reference pages).
  • Must include a title page with the following:
    • Title of paper
    • Student’s name
    • Course name and number
    • Instructor’s name
    • Date submitted
  • Must use at least 2 scholarly sources, 1 of which must be an original peer-reviewed research article, in addition to the course text.
  • 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 as outlined

Evaluate the contemporary role of psychology professionals and elaborate on the relationship between self-care and the issue of maintaining ethical principles and professional standards

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Prior to beginning work on this discussion, read the Grenyer & Lewis (2012) “Prevalence, Prediction, and Prevention of Psychologist Misconduct” article and the APA Practice Central’s Professional Health and Well-being for Psychologists (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site., Tips from Practitioners on Finding Work-Life Balance (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site., and Tips for Self-Care (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. online articles.

Select two complaints presented in the Grenyer & Lewis article (see Table 1) and explain the ramifications of these violations applying the APA’s Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. to each situation. Assess the role of the APA in assisting psychology professionals in the identification of potential areas of misconduct. Describe and recommend a course of action to avoid these areas. Evaluate the contemporary role of psychology professionals and elaborate on the relationship between self-care and the issue of maintaining ethical principles and professional standards. Identify one or two self-care tips, tools, or suggested courses of action provided on the APA’s Self-care resources for psychologists (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. website that might address the issues which lead to the chosen complaints.

Explain how creative decision-making can improve our ability to make better decisions, considering the numerous obstacles to do so.

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  • Decision-Making
  • Based on our content this week, discuss the importance of rationale decision-making in an organization, using necessary citations. Include how bounded reality, cognitive biases, and conjunction fallacy might affect decision-making.
  • Attribution Theory
    • Explain attribution theory using necessary citations. Include a discussion about the effects of consistency, consensus, distinctiveness, and fundamental attribution error. Consider inclusion about the effects of perception, primacy and recency effects, selective perceptions, contrast effect, stereotyping to further support your discussion.
  • Personal Experience: Inaccurate Judgement
    • Based on our content this week, consider your own experiences with others. Have your actions ever been judged inaccurately by a person such as a boss, a peer, or a family member? How could this experience support your thesis about whether or not attribution theory and bias affect human behaviors with organization?
    • Can self-serving, or other, bias affect one’s perception of a behavior?
  • Creative Decision Making
    • Explain how creative decision-making can improve our ability to make better decisions, considering the numerous obstacles to do so. Include an analysis about how good decision making can potentially affect productivity and job satisfaction.

Writing considerations:

  1. The introduction paragraph should introduce your topic and clearly explain what the paper will address.
  2. Headings can be used to organize your information. See templatePreview the documentView in a new window. (Each heading should include at least two paragraphs – minimum.)
  3. Each paragraph should make a point which can be linked back to your introduction paragraph. Design the topic sentence to embody what the paragraph will entail.
  4. The most important consideration in the body paragraphs is the argument that you want to develop (is or is not perceptions, attribution theory and bias applicable?) in response to the topic (applicability of perception, attribution theory and bias). This argument is developed by making and linking points in and between paragraphs.
  5. The conclusion paragraph should restate your thesis (your suggestion that perceptions, attribution theory and bias does or does not apply to human behaviors in organizations.)

Your assignment should be a minimum of five to six double-spaced pages, and should adequately discuss the topic, demonstrate maturating self-awareness, and include at least one peer-reviewed source, in addition to your text. Use the rubric to check for thoroughness. Include frequent citation to resources.

The Ashford Library should be used as your primary resource for this assignment, but other credible sources will also be accepted. Your sources should be cited according to APA format as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site..

The paper

As you work on your summary, remember to refer to the assignment guidelines and rubric below to make sure you’re fulfilling each aspect of the assignment.

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While you take a break from your essay as it “incubates,” let’s learn some ways to effectively integrate sources into your writing so that you will be ready to confidently place them in your paper when the time comes.

Complete the THREE activities on this page to review your understanding of quoting, paraphrasing, and summarizing.

NOTE: Your answers for Activity 3: Summarizing Assignment will be submitted for a grade.

Activity 1: Quoting

Quotations* are exact phrases taken directly from the source material. They are denoted by quotation marks that enclose the specific borrowed phrase.

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Activity 2: Paraphrasing

Paraphrases* convey the meaning of the source while using new and unique word choice and grammatical structure. It is still important to credit and cite the source and author, but there should not be quotation marks because it is not a direct phrase used by the author.

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Activity 3: Summarizing Assignment (GRADED)

Summaries* are used for longer passages. They provide a basic overview of a source using new and unique phrasing.

Within the introductory paragraph of your critical analysis essay that will be the final submission for this course, you will be asked to include a summary of your chosen article to help readers of your essay become oriented to the work you will be discussing. In this assignment, you will summarize your chosen reading in 3-4 sentences and cite it properly.

As you work on your summary, remember to refer to the assignment guidelines and rubric below to make sure you’re fulfilling each aspect of the assignment.

Assignment Guidelines

Overview: When you use sources in your paper, you will need to either quote, paraphrase, or summarize the information. Summaries are used for longer passages; they provide a brief, overview of the source, using new and unique phrasing.

Prompt: Summarize one of the following original texts using 3 to 4 sentences. Include a single citation at the end for your selected reading.

“Mother Tongue” by Amy Tan (2006)

“Me Talk Pretty One Day” by David Sedaris (1999)

“Some Lessons From the Assembly Line” by Andrew Braaksma (2005)

Guidelines for Submission: Save your work in a Word document with double spacing, 12-point Times New Roman font, and one-inch margins.. Then, check your writing for errors. Once you have proofread your document, submit it