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The second topic I will cover is good report writing in psychological reports. There are many different requirements unique to writing an evaluation. There is the psychiatric setting, in this setting there is more of a relationship with the client. By nature the psychologist would try to have open and trusting relationship. Since that is one of the goals of the psychologist, they would give recommendations that are more in-depth. Also the psychologist would use more DSM-IV classifications. Another example is in an educational setting. With this style the educational setting tend to focus on hard data. They give a large array of written test. The reason they prefer this is because it will give the court system something tangible. Which leads me to the legal context. A lawyer or courts calls in a forensic Psychologist to make an evaluation. The forensic psychologist is neutral through out the evaluation. They can not have open and trusting relationship. Usually in a case where the subject committed a crime he/she might want to say what ever they think the psychologist would want to hear, to make there sentence lighter. So a forensic psychologist must remain neutral. Also the forensic psychologist has to make an accurate evaluation because he has a lot of influence on what would happen to the subject in a court case. Now that you have an idea on how each evaluation is unique I will go into how to make a good evaluation. In order to start the evaluation you must answer this question, how did this client get into your office? Another thing you would want to find out what is the problem. After that is done you would want to administer an evaluation. What kind of test did you give? The reason this is done so you have hard data you can back up your diagnose. Now you look into behavioral observations. Behavioral observations are how the client presents him/her self. How are they dressed? After you answer that question you go into the clients affect. Background Information I feel is the most important part of the format. This will tell you how the client has developed the problem they currently have now. Now you go into the testing stage of the evaluation. You administer whatever test you feel will give you enough information to back up your diagnosis; you could also use to the test to come up with a diagnosis. Now you are almost done with the evaluation, you have to go over the tests and the interview, to come up with your impressions and interpretations. This includes the facts from the testing you gave earlier. Also analyze the whole interview and you then you come up with a summery explanation of the whole evaluation. At the end of the evaluation you give recommendations you might have. Recommendations usually state what the client could do to improve her state of life. That is the format you must have when writing an evaluation. Now that you know how to write an evaluation now you need to know the mechanics. You have to think of the audience you writing the evaluation for. Is the audience you are writing for the court system? You have to write your evaluation so it is targeted to the specific audience you a writing the evaluation for. Now the evaluation should be brief and to the point, a good report should not go over 1000 words, about two to four pages. While you give an evaluation you have to think of what type of test you should give. You should give tests that are relevant with the evaluation you are working on. I have gone over the different ways each evaluation can be unique. The examples I have given are Psychiatric setting, the educational setting and the legal setting. I hope by giving these examples I have been able to show you the differences in each evaluations and what makes them unique. The second topic I have covered is good report writing in psychological reports. The ideas I covered where the referral question, evaluation procedures, behavioral observations, background information, test results, impressions, interpretation, and recommendations. With these main ideas you can write the prefect evaluation. "An effective psychological report written for forensic evaluations shares the same requirements for good report writing expected of all other psychological reports and further contains additional requirements unique to its forensic purpose." (From the essay #3 handout). Bibliography: hand out in class Word Count: 795
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