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BENCHMARK PSYCHOLOGICAL REPORT ASSIGNMENT INSTRUCTIONS OVERVIEW

OVERVIEW

You will write a Benchmark Psychological Report Assignment based upon four (4) psychological evaluations and information reported in the Benchmark Initial Interview Assignment and Benchmark Mental Status Examination (MSE) Assignment. Counselors are commonly required to write a psychological report that presents assessed and observation information about a client. This Benchmark Psychological Report Assignment will require students to synthesize and report information about the character depicted in the Benchmark Initial Interview Assignment and Benchmark Mental Status Examination (MSE) Assignment.

INSTRUCTIONS

Length of Benchmark Psychological Report Assignment: 2100-2400 words (not including the title page)

Format of Benchmark Psychological Report Assignment: APA for font (Times New Roman, 12 pt.), title page, margins, and section headings

Number of citations: none

Acceptable sources: none

Using your character from the Benchmark Initial Interview Assignment and Benchmark Mental Status Examination (MSE) Assignment, you will take the assessments with the goal of answering one (1) of the referral questions posted below:

1. Would this examinee be a good candidate for participation in a summer missions trip in a very challenging environment?

2. Would this examinee be a good candidate for Senior Pastor at a large urban church?

3. Would the examinee make a good Resident Assistant (RA) at Liberty University?

Assessment Selection

You will report on four (4) assessments. For one of your assessments, you must use the IPIP-NEO assessment (see Psychological Report Resources for the link). There are two versions (short/long) of the IPIP-NEO assessment. Please use the longer version. Copy and paste the NEO description and chart into the report. This will give you a nice template for writing an assessment description. Once you have the results of the IPIP-NEO, you will plug in your own numbers into the chart.

The three (3) additional tests may come from the assessment listed on Blackboard: Jung Personality Test, Beck Depression Inventory, and the Beck Anxiety Inventory. However, you may select other assessments to replace these assessment. Please make sure that any assessments that you select are designed to provide some of the information needed to answer the referral question. For example, if going on a mission trip is stressful, then you will want to pick an assessment that measures stress; you would not pick one that can be used to diagnose schizophrenia. When you have completed scoring the assessments, begin writing the psychological report.

You may not use the Symptom Questionnaire (SQ); Depression, Anxiety, Stress Scales (DASS) or the Clinical Anxiety Scale (CAS). These assessments are used in the sample paper, so you may not use them in your report. This would be plagiarism.

Please refer to the Benchmark Psychological Report –Diagnostic Report Sample to ensure that you correctly format your Benchmark Psychological Report Assignment paper. For this, you will not use APA formatting for the headers and page numbers. You will write it in a format consistent with a psychological report which you can use for future reference. Be sure to head your Benchmark Psychological Report Assignment paper “Psychological Report.” Underneath this heading, fill in the following information (include the labels given):

Be sure to review the criteria on the Benchmark Psychological Report Grading Rubric before beginning this Benchmark Psychological Report Assignment.

See Benchmark Psychological Report Resources under the Benchmark Psychological Report Assignment page.