Due 1/23/17
Taking the Patients History
Each assignment in this course will help you prepare your Final Paper. For each assignment you will use the movie character or historical figure you chose in your Week One journal. Remember after submitting this weeks assignment you will not be allowed to change your movie character or historical figure.One of the first steps in any clinical assessment is to gather a thorough history from the patient. This history includes at minimum the patients identifying information presenting problem and relevant personal history relating to their presenting problem.For this assignment you will write the first few sections of your psychological report. 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. This week your assignment must cover the following sections of your psychological report and include the headings as listed:
Your assignment should include both a title page and reference page and be of sufficient depth and detail to support and inform your diagnostic impression with an absolute minimum of four pages (not including the title and reference pages). A cursory or surface level review of the patients presenting problem and history will unlikely provide enough information for your diagnostic impression.
Any sources used in the paper must be cited and referenced in APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.
Optional:If you would like to start writing additional sections in your psychological report and submit them along with this assignment for instructor feedback feel free to cover any sections up to and including Section VIII (Substance Use). Before doing this please read the Final Paper prompt for guidance on additional sections.Carefully review theGrading Rubricfor the criteria that will be used to evaluate your assignment.
Due 1/30/17
Gathering Collateral Information
Each assignment in this course will help you prepare your Final Paper. For all assignments you will use the movie character or historical figure that you used in your Week Two assignment and selected in your Week One journal.
After gathering your patients history it is considered good practice to contact people who interact with the patient on a regular basis and/or are related to the patient. These people often provide valuable insights into the patients behavior(s) and mindset. Typically the gathered information provides a context for the patients environment.
For this assignment you will write another section of your Final Paper. 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. Your assignment this week must cover the following section of your psychological report and include the heading as listed:
Typically this section within a psychological report seeks to answer the following questions (further elaboration within this section is encouraged where possible):
Your assignment shouldbe a minimum of one page and include sufficient depth and detail to support and inform your diagnostic impression. A title page is not necessary; however a reference page must be included. A cursory or surface level investigation of the patients interpersonal relationships will not provide enough information for your diagnostic impression. If no collateral information is available create collateral information on your own to inform your diagnostic impression.
Any sources used in the paper must be cited and referenced in APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.Carefully review theGrading Rubricfor the criteria that will be used to evaluate your assignment.
2/13/17
Final Paper
For your Final Paper you will demonstrate your knowledge of psychopathology and apply your skills to a realistic scenario. Throughout this course you have developed unique knowledge and skill sets that will allow you to critically analyze depictions of psychopathology in popular media and historical case examples from an informed point of view.
Your Final Paper will be a psychological report that may be based on a character from a movie or a historical case study. Review the provided lists of movies and historical case studies that are approved for use in this assignment. You must choose from these lists. You may not use examples from your personal life in the psychological report since doing so would be unethical (see Standards 2.04 and 9.01a in the Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct).
As you create this report you will be taking on the role of a clinician who is conducting an assessment and providing treatment recommendations for a patient (a character from your selected film or historical case study). Please note that a psychological report does not follow the same structure for reports you may have used in other courses. Your report must follow the format below and it must include each of the sections and their headings listed in this order:
Writing the Final PaperThe Final Paper:
Carefully review theGrading Rubricsfor the criteria that will be used to evaluate your assignment.
All both assingments and Final paper will be based off fo Earnest Hemmingway