of your responses should require more than 1 1½ pages of text. Given this limitation, please answer the questions directly; there is no need to make your exam resemble an essay with an introduction, summary, etc. Each question is worth 20 points. Do not skip any questions. You are required to . Your use of APA format along with sound writing skills count as 20% of your exam grade. Please . Number your responses to correspond to the questions. Do not combine the questions or your responses. You do not need to cut and paste or retype questions. Dont forget to use proper citations. Do not use unreliable i.e., non-scientifically or non-scholarly based web sites for this assignment (any .gov and professor sponsored edu sites are generally acceptable). This is an independent assignment; as you complete this exam. For the present assignment, you are asked to put yourself in the position of the being an expert clinician and theorist. Specifically, you are asked to provide a four component analysis of the character, Clarice Precious Jones. Successful completion of this assignment will require you to succinctly demonstrate your knowledge of course materials as they apply to Precious to produce a traumatic stress oriented assessment of her difficulties. The four components of your assessment follows. Content guidance for the each component is provided in the next section of this assignment. : Precious experienced chronic sexual abuse starting when she was three years of age and this why she has poor self-esteem. PROBLEM: We dont know with certainty that the abuse is the cause of Ps low self-esteem. It is much more appropriate to state the abuse MAY be a cause of Ps low self-esteem. Mary hated Precious from the time she was three years old. PROBLEM: We have no way of knowing if this is true we do know that Mary was quite abuse and targeted precious and that Mary seemed to believe that P was viewed as desirable in comparison to herself. Precious demonstrated academic potential as she performed well in her math classes and earned a certificate of achievement based on the progress she made with reading. GOOD specific examples used to back up statement regarding academic potential. . Any discussion you present regarding Ps mother or any other characters should be in support of explaining something regarding precious. : Mark sure you are putting the appropriate information in each section of your exam. : Relates to discussions regarding risks and protective factors for the development of mental illness. : Provide an overview key variables associated with the client starting with the mothers pregnancy through the time of referral. Types of information included ): Types and quality of social supports. Type and quality of attachment bonds. Sociodemographic risk and protective factors (age, race, gender, SES, etc.) Academic performance (problems such as learning disorders, achievements, engagement/enjoyment of academic endeavors, level of academic achievement, estimated IQ below average, average, above average) Socio-emotional development: Ability to engage appropriately with family, ability to engage appropriately with peers and authority figures. Psychomotor anxious, agitated, withdrawn or lethargic, ability to focus and sustain attention, ability to plan and complete various tasks). Behavioral dysfunction: disruptive or inappropriate behaviors, risky behaviors (towards self-others), ability to cope with stress, attachment style. : Critical thinking demonstrate your understanding of the key theoretical perspectives that are included in this course AND your ability to apply these perspectives to Precious. : Briefly discuss how theoretical perspective (psychodynamic, cognitive, behavioral, humanism/Maslow) might conceptualize Preciouss difficulties. State a carefully formulated empirically based opinion regarding which perspective best explains Precious difficulties and should be used as a guide in providing psychotherapy. : Demonstrating knowledge of course content ( ). : Consider the Neurosequential Model as discussed by Drs. Perry and Szalavitz. If Precious was a patient of Dr. Perry, how might he conceptualize Precious difficulties? Successfully answering this question requires that you are specific in identifying observable or suspected (based on observation) biopsychosocial dysfunction and in delineating an intervention. : . Goal: This section should demonstrate what you are learned about stress vs traumatic stress, psychiatric symptoms and diagnoses, normative and non-normative behaviors associated with exposure to traumatic stress and related efforts at coping. This is the key section in which you may theorize (or state carefully formulated opinions regarding the causes of a persons difficulties such as the impact of exposure to overwhelming stressors).
