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Homework: Milestone Guidelines

Overview

For your project, you will develop a conceptualization of an individual based on background information and the results of a few select tests. To do so, you will examine research to understand the purpose of the chosen tests, why they were utilized, and how they help inform the overall understanding of an individual's presenting problems. Throughout the course, you will complete milestone homework that are drafts of specific sections of the project. Because these milestone homework are drafts, you will notice that their critical elements and rubrics are similar to those in the Project Guidelines and Rubric document.

In Milestone One, you focused on writing an introduction and completing critical elements A through C of the Test and Assessment Development Analysis section for each test. In this second milestone, you will complete critical elements E through H of those sections, along with the "Clinical Formulation" section.

Prompt

You should have already chosen a vignette to focus on and research in the previous milestone. Reread the vignette thoroughly. Then, use the vignette and additional research to answer the critical elements listed below. Be sure to properly cite your resources; the project requires you to include at least six references cited in APA format.

Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed in your own words and supported by cited sources from course readings, resources accessed through the vignette links, or other research:

A. Test and Assessment Development Analysis: Test One

1. Describe the test's cut scores for normal versus at-risk or clinically significant.

2. Assess any cultural concerns for how they impact the effectiveness of the test administration.

3. Determine if any ethical issues affect the test administration.

4. Assess the methods of interpreting and communicating the results (e.g., scaled scores, percentile ranks, z-scores, t-scores) for their appropriateness.

B. Test and Assessment Development Analysis: Test Two

1. Describe the test's cut scores for normal versus at-risk or clinically significant.

2. Assess any cultural concerns for how they impact the effectiveness of the test administration.

3. Determine if any ethical issues affect the test administration.

4. Assess the methods of interpreting and communicating the results (e.g., scaled scores, percentile ranks, z-scores, t-scores) for their appropriateness.

C. Clinical Formulation

1. Analyze the test results using industry-standard tools.

2. Determine a diagnosis based on the data provided.

3. Interpret the psychometric data from the test results to address the reason for the referral.