A 57-year-old man with a history of heavy drinking is frequently sad, angry, and anxious. His work performance has suffe
Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2022 1:41 pm
A 57-year-old man with a history of heavy drinking is frequentlysad, angry, and anxious. His work performance has suffered—he isforgetful, disorganized, and low in energy. The man’s doctorwonders if the drinking has impaired his cognitive abilities; hiswife wonders if he is simply very depressed. The man feels that hehas lived his life for everyone but himself.
List and discuss relevant assessment tools you would utilize.Your assessment should respond to the concerns of theclient, his doctor, and wife. Providejustification that supports your decision.
Note: Sample psychological assessmentstools: (a) controlled observations in clinic or laboratory; (b)naturalistic observations in office, home, school, (c) logs kept byparents, friends, the client; (d) structured interview andunstructured interview; (e) objective personality tests (Rorschach,TAT, sentence-completion, draw-a-person); (f) self-reportinventories (MMPI-2, Beck Depression Inventory); (g) Wechsler’stests (WAIS-III, WISC-III, WPPSI-III); and (h) Neurological tests(CT and PET-scans, EEG, MRI, fMRI).
List and discuss relevant assessment tools you would utilize.Your assessment should respond to the concerns of theclient, his doctor, and wife. Providejustification that supports your decision.
Note: Sample psychological assessmentstools: (a) controlled observations in clinic or laboratory; (b)naturalistic observations in office, home, school, (c) logs kept byparents, friends, the client; (d) structured interview andunstructured interview; (e) objective personality tests (Rorschach,TAT, sentence-completion, draw-a-person); (f) self-reportinventories (MMPI-2, Beck Depression Inventory); (g) Wechsler’stests (WAIS-III, WISC-III, WPPSI-III); and (h) Neurological tests(CT and PET-scans, EEG, MRI, fMRI).