Question

1. Discuss some of the major considerations when preparing a psychological report. Give an example (can be fictional) of poor clinical judgment in preparing such a report.?

2. What patient or therapist variables have been shown to be related to psychotherapy outcome.?

Answer 1

Step 1

Stage 1:Identify data and reason for referral :Peter who is 17 year adolocent whom referred to a psychological evaluation to determine his current cognitive and emotional status.peter has long history of major absence of poor academic performance despite of providing all necesary facilities.

Source of information: The background information are collected from his parents, psychologist , school teacher .medical and develoment history.

Current data is obtained of his behaviour

through various test like standardized psychological test, achievement test.

Behavior observation: Peter is very frank and openminded. He is hardworker and motivating to perfrom but memory processing is very slow.he can not retain information for longer time. He show sign of distractiblty, and hyper tension .

Result testing:

Peter cognitive and intellectual capablity so are measured through weshler adult intelligence test .Weashler intelligence test is test which is used to measure intelligence of above 16 years age groups child.It is composed 14 subtest , devided into two part a verbal scale and performance scale.i

It is proved that he was higlyh motivated many task and reflected strong abstract problem solving abilities.

The major problem with him is attention concentration. He is suffer attention defficit disorder and easily got distractive.

He shows some difficulties in visual memory due to inadequate encoding perceptual information.

His speech language and articulation process is good.

Emotional personality also assesed and finally generalized whole things.

So identify data , testing behavior , testing result and finally summary of report etc is major consideration of psychological report which are discussed with poor clinical judgement where there is possiblity to have instrument of good psychological test, constructed achievement test , and have environment interact with parents , school and psychologist.

Step-2

A number of variable have been shown of patient as therapiest like socio-economic status, Education level , culture, race, religion, are probablity both for seeking and obtaining pschotherapy.