waslden coun 6360 week 3 Assignment: Client Intake

Assignment: Client Intake

Selecting an assessment to use with a client can be an important part of a counselor’s work. A first step in selecting an assessment is often to research options using the Mental Measurements Yearbook. For this Discussion, you will identify a mental health issue, and then research assessments that may help in diagnosing a client.

You will create a self-recorded video directed at your client to explain the rationale for assessing him or her, and you will describe how the assessment you selected will accomplish this.

To Prepare:

• • Locate the appropriate Client Intake Form for your state: https://www.apadivisions.org/division-31/publications/records/intake.aspx (my state is Ohio)
  • Select 1 of the 3 clients from exercise 3.3 in your textbook. (I selected Mikayla from my textbook: Neukrug, E. S., & Fawcett, R. C. (2015). Chapter 3: “Diagnosis in the assessment process.” In The essentials of Testing and Assessment: A practical guide for counselors, social workers, and psychologists (pp. 43-58). Stamford, CN: Cengage Learning.)
  • Determine which two assessments to administer to the client you have selected.
• Select an appropriate issue to assess that you determine may assist in diagnosing this client, such as suicide, addiction, trauma, depression, anxiety, relationship satisfaction, or other issue
• Search the Walden Library for the Mental Measurements Yearbook (MMY) as follows:
  • In the Walden Library, select Databases A-Z on the home page.
  • Select “M” from the alphabetic menu.
  • Select Mental Measurements Yearbook with Tests in Print from the options.
• Find an assessment that you think is a good one to recommend to your ‘client’

Assignment:

• Create a 1 – 2 minute self-recorded video addressed to your client (instead of video do a 1-2 minute PDF word document explaining the below information)
• In the video, explain to your client why you want to assess him or her
• Explain which assessment you would like to give, and what the assessment will provide the client

Please only reference this info below AND whatever ever else you use in addition too

Neukrug, E. S., & Fawcett, R. C. (2015). Chapter 3: “Diagnosis in the assessment process.” In The essentials of Testing and Assessment: A practical guide for counselors, social workers, and psychologists (pp. 43-58). Stamford, CN: Cengage Learning.

Neukrug, E. S., & Fawcett, R. C. (2015). Chapter 4: “The assessment report process: Interviewing the client and writing the report.” In The essentials of Testing and Assessment: A practical guide for counselors, social workers, and psychologists (pp. 59-80). Stamford, CN: Cengage Learning.

Neukrug, E. S., & Fawcett, R. C. (2015). Box 4.5: “Summary of assessment report.” In The essentials of Testing and Assessment: A practical guide for counselors, social workers, and psychologists (p. 76). Stamford, CN: Cengage Learning.