Jane Smith's Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-Adolescent

During her last placement she refused to attend school and was cursing out staff, exhibiting verbal aggression, breaking rules, refusing therapy and groups, threatening and arguing with staff and having conflicts with her peers. She was removed from River Park Hospital on June 13, 2016 for

1a) In the research article “Personality Predictors of Successful Development: Toddler Temperament and Adolescent Personality Traits Predict Well-being and Career Stability in Middle Adulthood” by Marek Blatný, Katarína Millová, Martin Jelínek, Terezie Osecká. The problem that these researchers identified was the relationship between personality and psychological functioning and well-being, or the relations between personality and social functioning. The authors conducted this study mainly to determine whether ones’ personality affects his/her satisfaction with their quality of life in adulthood. They believe that personality traits play a major role in who/what you become in the future and they wanted to see if they could predict it. If yes, they wanted to know how early? – As early as childhood, adolescence or early adulthood.

The goal of this course is to provide students with an overview of topics related to abnormal psychology. The primary emphasis of this course will be on classification of psychopathology and the symptoms associated with different syndromes.

Brandy is a 17 year old Caucasian female. Her family and school counselor has sent her for a clinical intervention after she recently tried to attempt suicide by taking her mother's Xanax. The client admits she is suicidal and wants to kill herself after recent accounts of being bullied at school by classmates. me today at her family and school request for counseling. Her presenting complaint is that since the start of nine grade she has been excessively teased, ridiculed and bullied by a small group of girls. The client reports that the girls have repeatedly told her to go “kill herself”. The client reports that a “friend told her to pop some pills and she'd overdose quickly”. The client states that she is tired of being bullied at school and online at home. The client states that she is no longer interested in activities at school (eg., band, art, and tennis) as well as going out with friends. Her parents sought for a counselor to intervene and provide counseling after finding the client “passed out

Antazia is working to complete grade level work. Antazia has reported behavioral issues. Antazia’s number of referrals decrease during this period. The school has reported Antazia’s behaviors include verbal and physical aggression towards peers and adults, defiance and refusal

At the time of the assessment she currently had 62 behavioral infractions at school. Some of her self-report included “lashing out”, being “verbally abusive”, and dislikes physical touch. Katie presented with borderline personality disorder tendencies, runaway behaviors, significant history of trauma, self-injurious superficial cutting and high emotional vitality and reactivity. At

Kayden’s father stated he does not have any current mental/psychological diagnoses, and has no apparent behavior or psychological issues. However, ADHD is prominent on his father’s side, and substance abuse issues are observed on his mother’s side (mother’s father). Per his father, Kayden shows no behavior issues that are not age appropriate, stating that he has never had a full on “tantrum”, and is easily redirected when upset. Kayden’s exhibited strength in this area is his overall “good” behavior. A barrier identified in this area is his susceptibility to

The MMPI-2 is one of the best psychological tests to use because the validity scales are effective in identifying test-takers who may be faking

Ms. Corbett stated that the child is a good student, she indicated that James experienced bullying last year in school. She indicated that she teaches the child to utilize adults to get help.

PURPOSE FOR EVALUALTION: Miss. Olivia Smith is a first time admission for inpatient care at this facility. Miss Olivia was referred by her professor and parents due to their concern regarding her unexplainable behavior she has been displaying. She is a twenty two white female who parents name are Shelia and David Smith.

Assessment Complete • Pattern of Coping and Stress Tolerance – He follows a strict regimen to cope such as: watching Jeopardy, Monday’s pizza dinner, Tuesdays pancakes with maple syrup. – He gets nervous and states “Who’s on First?” when he is around new people • Pattern of Values and Beliefs – Because he had been a resident for over 20 years, he trusted those at the mental institute. Analysis of Health Assessment • Normal assessment findings – Alert and Oriented to person, place, time.

Emily is a 6-year-old girl referred by her pediatric psychologist because of behavioral issues. Emily’s parents have informed the analyst that her problems first arose when she

The personality assessment inventory tests provide results on my individual personality, values, motivation, decision making, communication, team skills, conflict skills, organizational structure preference, and stress. These results are broken down briefly in three parts and do not include any personal speculation or analysis as to their meaning. The application of these results are further applied and explains how the results noted from the tests and in the first step will make me a better employee, co-worker, and manager within my organization. These tests mentioned above are applied in conjunction with particular examples on how I can achieve becoming a better employee, co-worker, and manager. An explanation of how my personality and experiences were affected by the Holy Spirit is also discussed. Particularly, how potential weaknesses have become strengths with the guidance of the Lord.

A psychological assessment is the venture of a capable experts, generally a psychologist, to operate the techniques and tools or materials of psychology to ascertain either common or unique facts about another person, either to notify others how they function now, or estimate their attitude,behavior and functioning in the future. The issue of assessment is generally diagnosis or classification. These are the movement of placing a person in a certainly or loosely characterized category of people. This leads to swiftly grasp what they are similar in general, and to evaluate the existence of other thematic features based upon people similar or likely to them. Case history data, clinical interview, psychological tests and behavioral observations

Sihle is a 14 year-old boy who is currently in Grade 6. He was referred to the Institute of Psychology and Wellbeing at the North West University, Potchefstroom Campus, by one of his overseeing social workers. The social worker described Sihle as having problem with his behaviour in that he bullies staff members, teachers and younger children and reportedly likes to fight. The social worker also described episodes of extreme rage outbursts in which he acted with aggression towards others and on one occasion hit a teacher. He was described as displaying extreme mood swings and problems in relationships with peers and teachers. Sihle indicated that he has difficulty concentration and controlling his emotions. As a result of above mentioned the social worker is concerned for Sihle’s wellbeing and progress in the years to come and particularly with his impending transition into high school.