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Assignment Description

For your Signature Assignment, choose a fictional family from your favorite book, TV series, movie, or similar source. It is important that the source provides significant information about each family member and their relationships. Once you have selected a source, place yourself in the role of therapist and select a battery of assessments for the family to complete as if this were their first session. Then, complete each assessment by placing yourself in the role of each family member. It is best to complete each assessment as each client before scoring any of the assessments. You do not need to submit any of the completed assessments; rather, use them for your own reference as you complete the Systemic Assessment Report.

You must select and complete at least one of each of the following types of assessments:

• Couple's Assessment
• Family Assessment
• Needs Assessment
• Risk Assessment

For the couples and family assessments, you may use the assessments presented earlier in this course, or you may select a set of different instruments to use. If you choose to use a different couple's and/or family assessment, you will need to request approval from your instructor before proceeding. The video offers a great deal of information about the family and their dynamics; however, if needed, you may creatively fill in any gaps of information as long as they are aligned with a family's narrative.

While addressing the risk assessment, you are not required to present a formal assessment but to outline specific warning signs as well a possible safety plan (including specific resources and advised actions) that you will develop with your client(s).

The goal of this assignment is not to correctly guess how the family members might respond to the assessments, but to correctly and appropriately understand what picture is painted by the scores and information gathered during your assessment. You will be graded on your ability to intelligently discuss which assessments you chose and why, what you learned about the family from these assessments, and how this information might be helpful in working with this family in therapy.

Use the following section headings for your Systemic Assessment report:

Sections	Explanations
Evaluation General Information	Fictional Case Number; Date of the evaluation; Evaluator's name
Family Demographics	Family member names, ages, ethnicity, gender, etc.
Assessments Administered	List out each instrument used and provide a detailed description of what type of instrument it is, what construct(s) it measures, and any other relevant information for that instrument. Do not present measure results in this section.
Purpose for Referral	Briefly report why the family came to therapy. Assume this information was obtained during an interview.
Background Information	Provide historical background information on the family. Assume this information was obtained during an interview.
Results of Evaluations	Review the results from each assessment administered, indicating the scores and the subscale scores. If using a Genogram, indicate significant relationships and/or transgenerational patterns.
Summary/Recommendations	Viewing the family through the theoretical approach of your choosing (please choose one approach from Traditional or Postmodern models previously addressed in the MFT-5104 and MFT-5105 courses), provide an integrated conceptualization of the family's functioning based on your interview and assessment results, and clinical recommendations. Your recommendations ought to include recommended community resources for the family per the need's assessment.

Length: 5-9 pages

References: Include a minimum of 3 scholarly resources.