Application: Symptom Severity and Functional Impairment
How severe are a client’s symptoms and how do they impact a client’s functioning? Consider the case of Sami in this week’s Introduction. Sami’s experiences during driving had grown to the point to which she feared having a panic attack behind the wheel and was apprehensive about driving at all. How might a clinician evaluate these symptoms and incorporate the results into the development of a treatment plan?
For this Assignment, you evaluate and select an appropriate test to measure symptom severity as well as functioning and apply it to your virtual client.
Lanie Rosado
Age– 22
Race – Hispanic
Gender – Female
Ethnicity – Puerto Rican
Veteran Status – Enduring Freedom veteran
Immigrant Status – American citizen
Language – English, Spanish
Sensory Impairment – None
Motor Impairment – Fine and gross
Medical Conditions – Severely injured dominant hand
Presenting Problem – Failing in college
Affective Symptoms – Mood swings
Behavioral Symptoms – Impulsivity
Unstable relationships
Cognitive Symptoms – Failing first semester of school
Family and Support Systems – Conflict with family and partner
Results Intelligence Testing – Weakness in Gs
Results of NEO PI-R – High, neuroticism
Low, extraversion
The Assignment (3–5 pages):
Select two tests of symptom severity (one must be a mental status examination) and two tests of functional impairment from the Mental Measurements Yearbook.
Complete a comparative analysis of the tests and select one of each test (symptom severity and functional impairment) which is most appropriate for your virtual client and explain why.
Justify your selection.
Explain one limitation of the two tests you selected and explain why they are limitations.
Support your Application Assignment with specific references to all resources used in its preparation. You are to provide a reference list for all resources, including those in the Learning Resources for this course