Psycap Strengths

NOTE: Your final exam will consist of 100 questions selected from the following, as well as selected questions from in-class tests on Food Addiction and on The Joyful Mind; correct answers to those tests have already been posted to the doc sharing portion of the Ecompanion Website. You can use the answers to check the answers you gave on your chapter study tests. Your final exam is on Wednesday, September 12, 2012; You will have from 8:15AM to 9:45AM to complete the final exam. There are no make up dates for the final exam. From Chapter 1: 1. According to Shavelson (2001), author of Hooked, which three words define harm reduction? A. any positive change B. recovery from pain C. a

As I have mentioned above, that achiever, strategic, learner, belief, and responsibility are my top five themes as revealed by StrengthsFinder. I was astounded and amazed after reading the detail description of my personal five themes, because these are the most consistent behaviors that I display in my daily personal and professional life. I think this assessment is reliable and trustworthy, because the result provided on the bases of my responses drew an accurate picture of my strengths.

The assessment that I chose for this assignment was from the box 5.1 “Personal Power Profile.” This assessment is composed of a list of statements that describe possible behaviors of leaders in work organizations. The end results are based on the response for each item. For example, strongly disagree is equal to 1 point, disagree is equal to 2 points, neither agree nor disagree is equal to 3 points, agree is equal to 4 points and strongly agree is equal to 5 points. Consequently, I end up with more points on referent power 4.5, followed by legitimate power 4.0, and expert power 4.0.

As I arrive into the office the receptionist informs me that my new client has arrived. I greet him and ask him to follow me. In the office I introduce myself and ask him how he is doing today. He seems to have a positive outlook on things. I inform him that his visit today will take no more than an hour. First and foremost I have him read and sign off the consent form. Next I inform the client about privacy and confidentially. I also let him know it is okay to stop me and ask any questions. Lastly, although he has allowed his previous therapist to share his chart with me, I confirm with him once again if it is okay for me to take a look. The client agrees and I begin to conduct his assessment.

The members of Brandon’s current family system include his mother as no further family systems are available. According to Brandon’s mother, Brandon disclosed to his mother that his natural father had repeatedly

Marla is a 42-year-old Hispanic female who comes to the mental health clinic complaining of having trouble sleeping, feeling "jumpy all of the time," and experiencing an inability to concentrate. These symptoms are causing problems for her at work, where she is an accountant.

This vastly researched and thriving subfield of psychology is concerned with basic methods used to identify similarities and differences among individual’s personal characteristics and capacities. Assessment involves more than mere administration of tests i.e.: collection and integration of information attained from various sources like interviews, behavioural observations, reports, psychological tests and historical documents in order to attain a complete picture of a person’s state.

The assessment was conducted on a patient who was forty nine (49) years old bisexual, a white female and single, a Roman Catholic and who didn't have any child. Most importantly, this patient has worked with me for a period of one year from January 2010; therefore I have been seeing her every week for about fifteen minutes. The patient was given to me by one psychiatrist who came across her at event where the housing project was being commissioned to support Veterans. By that time ,the patient was suffering from Anxiety Disorder NOS and Depression NOS.

I have learned many things from my experience with Strengths finder. I have learned that my strengths have given me a different sense of who I am. My strengths also helped me to find out what I am good at, and this will help me to improve myself as a person. I look back on myself and see that I am successful academically. I am able to write down assignments, and make things more organized to make my academic career a little easier. I have made game plans for what to do and when to do it as a result of Strengths finder. I have also managed to take on a big amount of responsibility by making sure that I’m doing everything, and doing it right on time. I can see my strengths represented through my vocation, which is not only to be a responsible

My results were nine out of thirty-three my score was average. I answered the questions truthfully, considering I’m a psychology major, but I knew the wrong answers was wrong. I could have answered the incorrect question that way the author of the assessment test, correctly. I didn’t want to cheat my true feelings in order to gain least incorrect answers. I normally don’t seek the approval of others in what I say or do, but I did think I would have gotten least wrong answers. I do agree with my results, I show an average degree of concern for the social desirability. I agree with the fact I conform to social rules and conventions.

According to NCBI (2009), “the assessment interview is the beginning of the therapeutic relationship and helps set the tone for treatment”. As suggested by NCBI (2009), “the interviewer should explain the reason for and role of a psychosocial history”. This was a very important in the case of Virginia whom has never received counseling services before. The intern selected the Biopsychosocial Assessment which allowed for incorporating the tool’s questions into an easy conversation, while gathering pertinent info needed to assist the client in future sessions.

The self-assessment shows you what areas you are strong in and what areas need some improvement. When I took the self-assessment, I learned that I am a straight forward person who has good intentions and always tries to handle issues ethically. The self-assessment showed me my own strengths and weaknesses within ethical decision making. I learned that I shine in leadership and that improving the community health status is important to me. I aim to always do what is right and my own personal ethics have helped me through this.

There are many kinds of feedback forms, and it is always wise to have several in a trainer’s tool kit. Within the authors sector the courses are primarily one day events, feedback questionnaires are usually presented at the end of the session. These are usually generic, and do not always meet the needs of the learners or given course. To achieve qualitative data the author tailors the questionnaires to the session, with predominantly open style questions, demanding a full response. As apposed to closed questions with yes/no answers, which usually achieves only quantative data. Feedback must be recorded and filed for quality assurance purposes, further action, planning, audit trails and management review. Feedback can help the trainer to evaluate their courses and learners.

This counselor sees that the areas of multicultural competence would be looking at the child’s background and family dynamics through the biopsychosocial assessment. Then this counselor sees that the parents is asking this and not the client. The clinician would need to assess the client to make sure this is his choice and not the parents’ choice. Then the clinician would need to address the religion aspect not to the client or the parents, just to himself to find out more about that type of religion. The clinician would need cultural training on the customs in Central Africa, especially the part that the client is from.

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