Family History Autobiography Your Autobiography must be 3 typed pages in length. There are many different types of families, each of which is equally viable as a supportive, caring unit. Identify which type of family unit you grew up in: nuclear, extended, blended or step, single parent, adopted or foster, grandparent, gay/lesbian, or other. Families sometimes change as we are growing up for example, it starts out nuclear and a divorce, death, elderly Grandparent may change the family unit. Trace how your family of origin has evolved citing important facts like heritage, family beliefs, values, religion, and relevant events or experiences in your life. Include your earliest memory, significant events (highs and lows), most memorable moment, any turning points/ life changing “Aha’s”, where you are now, and hopes for your own future family and possible marriage and children. [ This is my life ] I am a first generation college student. Im a singer actor and dancer I come from a nuclear family mom, dad, sister. My parents immigrated from Ghana West Africa. Back in Africa I have many family members and some of them I don’t know. Because my family in from Ghana west Africa they are very traditional and not really americanized My family is very religious and we are christian [ memorable event ] At the age of 16 I was on a Disney channel show and because of that me and my family traveled a lot that year and it helped us bond. [ Events that happened in my life ] I was born in Brooklyn Ny My family and I moved To NJ at the age of 5 I then went on to elementary school, middle school, high school, and now collage. [ Future family ] I hope to oneway have a beautiful wife with two kids and raise them together in a a good town. I hope to be very financially stable so that my kids don’t worry about money like I did.

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Complete the following:

• Improve your interview and referral questions for the case vignette you selected in M1 Assignment 3. Using this case vignette, add to your referral questions by integrating the feedback that you received from your instructor in M4 Assignment 2 on your mock interview questions and formulated hypothesis on why the individual needs the referral.

Example Referral Questions:

 

• As a forensic mental health professional, what factors do you need  to consider in your psychological testing for the forensic assessment  report?
• What are the pertinent multicultural consideration?
• What behavioral observations do you make about the client by reading the case vignette?
• What are your assessment options in working with the client?
• What standard and accepted psychological  tests might you apply to your client in a forensic setting? Select from  the instruments you researched in M3 Assignment 2 RA.
• How will you recognize and evaluate your  client’s offender behaviors associated with malingering and deception?  What theoretical orientation do you want to use in this case for your  treatment recommendations?
• What is the case scenario that you have selected?
• What is the reason for referral?
• What is the purpose of the forensic assessment and report?
• What is the nature of the problem presented in your selected case vignette?
• What is the context in which the forensic assessment report will be used?
• What is the background of your client? What are the symptoms displayed by your client and their significance in this case?
• What is the mental status of your client?  Be sure to elaborate on every major component addressed in the mental  status examination.
• What interview type and approach did you use with your client?
• What tests are appropriate to use in your  forensic assessment report? Identify one intelligence test, one  objective personality test, and one projective test.
• What collateral information will you use in the process of the evaluation?
• How will you present your impressions of the client?
• Revise your copy of Forensic Mental Health Professional Individual Assessment Report on the basis of your instructor’s feedback. Using the Forensic Mental Health Professional Individual Assessment Report template that you downloaded for M4 Assignment 2,  revise your evaluation and interpretation of the information provided  to you in the case vignette that you selected. Synthesize the  information you collected to create a forensic mental health professional individual assessment report. Your findings should be in a report format.
  In a 10- to 12-page report, include only the following components:

• Reason for Referral:  Explain the objective of your case vignette analysis, clearly bringing  out the aspects or reasons that motivated you to carry out the study.
• Presentation: Create mock  interview data and collateral information (you are to identify the  questions to ask in the interview). Provide a synopsis of the interview.  To support the mental status of your client, provide data based on your  forensic assessment report and the mental status components you have  identified.
• Current Life Situation and Background Information:  Explain the problem provided in your selected case vignette using the  interview and mental status data. How does the data relate to the  background and multicultural characteristics of your client and your  behavioral observations?
• Objective Testing:  Identify the assessment instruments you would recommend to evaluate the  client and explain the rationale for your recommendations. Describe the  objective tests you have selected and their use. How did you apply these  tests to your selected case vignette? According to your study, what is  your analysis of the symptoms displayed by your client? What ethical and  multicultural issues do you need to address? You will apply what you  have learned from M3 Assignment 2 RA to this section.
• Provide your diagnostic impressions based  on DSM-5 criteria. What is your principal diagnosis? What is your  secondary diagnosis? Are there other conditions that may be the focus of  clinical attention to consider?
• Conclusion and Recommendations:  What is your hypothesis after taking into account the mental status  examination, the interview, personality tests, and the symptom analysis?  Explain your hypothesis and substantiate it using instances from your  case study. Discuss your results with conclusions and recommendations. The final version of Forensic Mental Health Professional Individual Assessment Report  should contain all the assigned components and the corresponding  information and include revisions and improvements based on your  feedback from M4 Assignment 2.
• Synthesize the data and write a reflection statement in 2–3 pages. In a separate document, address the following:

• Describe your professional role and relationship with the court and the third party requesting the assessment or evaluation.
• Explain the hypothesis you have formulated.
• Explain why you chose the tests for the assessment of the client.
• Discuss potential ethical dilemmas that might arise in your assessment of the client.
• Discuss the pertinent multicultural perspectives you considered.
• Explain how you would prepare yourself to  defend your evaluation in the court setting or to relevant third  parties. Be sure to support your explanation with professional  literature.
• If you recommended treatment for your client, discuss the evidence-based approaches used with the disorder you diagnosed.
• Discuss the influence of cultural factors on the assessment process. The final version of Forensic Mental Health Professional Individual Assessment Report  should contain all the assigned components and the corresponding  information and include revisions and improvements based on your  feedback from M4 Assignment 2.
• Synthesize the data and write a reflection statement in 2–3 pages. In a separate document, address the following:

 

• Describe your professional role and relationship with the court and the third party requesting the assessment or evaluation.
• Explain the hypothesis you have formulated.
• Explain why you chose the tests for the assessment of the client.
• Discuss potential ethical dilemmas that might arise in your assessment of the client.
• Discuss the pertinent multicultural perspectives you considered.
• Explain how you would prepare yourself to  defend your evaluation in the court setting or to relevant third  parties. Be sure to support your explanation with professional  literature.
• If you recommended treatment for your client, discuss the evidence-based approaches used with the disorder you diagnosed.
• Discuss the influence of cultural factors on the assessment process.

Your final deliverables are:

 

• A selected case vignette
• A list of interview and referral questions
• The assessment template
• The final assessment report
• A reflection statement

Your report and reflection statement combined should be  approximately 12–15 pages. You are to utilize outside resources in your  reflection statement only.

All written assignments and responses should follow APA rules for attributing sources.