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 Rubric for the criteria that will be used to evaluate your assignment.