Topic

Counseling-Based Personality Assessment

Instructions

Prior to beginning work on this discussion, read the Cohen, et al. (2013) and Wu, et al. (2007) articles and review the Evaluating Mental Health Patientsand HumanMetrics Jung Typology Test websites.

For this discussion, you will be taking on the role of the intake counselor at a mental health facility. In this role, you will facilitate the evaluation of a client based on clinical personality assessments, mental status exam, and observations of the client to make recommendations to the treatment team consisting of the clinical psychologist, counselors, and case manager for the client. Carefully review the PSY615: Week Two Counseling-Based Personality Assessment Scenario.

In your initial post, examine the personality assessment instrument used in the scenario and research a peer-reviewed article in the Ashford University Library on this personality assessment. Using the required articles and websites as well as your researched article to support your statements, describe the standard use of this personality assessment. Based on the scenario, evaluate the reliability, validity, and cultural considerations inherent to the personality assessment used and comment on the relevance of these elements within the scenario. Analyze and describe some of the potential ethical issues which might arise from the use of this personality assessment in the given scenario. Provide information from your research regarding the use of the personality measure, and assess the value of other possible instruments that could be added to create a more complete assessment of the client in the scenario.

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Ethical issues that might arise in the scenario at stake include engaging on measuring processes that worsen the client’s conditions to become more severe. For example, when measuring her state of Social Dynamics, Emotional Control, and Reaction to Stress, it would be important to be very selective in posing questions and making intriguing suggestions to develop a conversation in order to avoid making the client advance from a depressed person to a suicidal one. Adding rating scale test to the measuring methodology used would have increased accuracy of the results in the client’s personality state. Setting a rating item, the rating scales would have presented the client an opportunity to select from number of choices, a process that could have improved the self-reporting analysis of the client’s reaction in assessing uniformity or desegregation of systematic behavioral responses to measure the client’s openness and cooperation, mood swings, and memory functions (Casey, 1997). The strategy would also have helped assess her state of thought process and volatility to suicidal or homicidal, delusions, or paranoia ideation.

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