Cognitive Diagnosing
1. What words would you use to describe the clients across the following variable?
a. Appearance (posture, attire, psychomotor functioning).
The client was physically capable of sitting upright, and posture was right and sat in the chair while she was speaking in the interview/assessment testing. Her appearance was appropriate for the counseling session. The title of the video stated that she has an impairment. The interviewer did not enclose a change or an adjustment made to the administered test, due to the patient has a cognitive impairment. Her psychomotor functioning appeared slight abnormal due to her answers to the interviewer.
b. Cognitive functioning (memory, concentration, judgment, reality testing, coherence, cognitive …show more content…
flexibility, misconceptions, sensory perceptions.
The client answered the questions to the test to her best knowledge.
She did show some confusion and deep concentration when the interviewer asked questions. At the beginning of the interview, she did not give the interviewer eye contact when asking how she is doing. A question addressing her to recall three items, she made a couple of attempts, to answer the question correctly. (Even though she suffers from a cognitive impairment the attempt to respond to the question is allowed five-time to meet the question, with the first try is scored). She had difficulty identifying objects such as a watch and pen. The interviewer assigns her a task of folding a piece of paper a certain way than to place it on the floor.
She folded and crumbled the paper into a small square, then placed in underneath her leg.
c. Efficient functioning (Predominant mood, variability, range and intensity of affect)
The patent’s mood was in an emotional constriction; she was labile, her emotional functioning was inordinate apprehension, for example, she was fidgeting, and hand wringing.
d. Values and self-concept: Values- She seems confused to the questions that were asked by the interviewer. Perceptions needed questions repeated, and seem confused at first in the conversation. Self-concept- Her mental capacities for general intellect: low
intelligence.
e. Attitude toward the interviewer: Her attitude towards the interviewer was cooperative; she remained quite when he was speaking to her and only gave answers the questions he asked outright.
2. Is there any area in which you lack information? How would you go about getting the information in a subsequent session? I would request her medical records and like to have more information about her cognitive development. Is she in treatment for addressing a traumatic event or a mental diagnose.
3. To what extent might the nature of the interview and the worker’s style and characteristics have affected the clients’ presentation of themselves in the session? I feel the interviewer was patient towards the client. Not understanding why, she was taking the MMS test and why she was seeing a therapist? There was no assessment taken in the session to help understand the nature of the interview.
a. Appearance (posture, attire, psychomotor functioning).
The client was physically capable of sitting upright, and posture was right and sat in the chair while she was speaking in the interview/assessment testing. Her appearance was appropriate for the counseling session. The title of the video stated that she has an impairment. The interviewer did not enclose a change or an adjustment made to the administered test, due to the patient has a cognitive impairment. Her psychomotor functioning appeared slight abnormal due to her answers to the interviewer.
b. Cognitive functioning (memory, concentration, judgment, reality testing, coherence, cognitive …show more content…
flexibility, misconceptions, sensory perceptions.
The client answered the questions to the test to her best knowledge.
She did show some confusion and deep concentration when the interviewer asked questions. At the beginning of the interview, she did not give the interviewer eye contact when asking how she is doing. A question addressing her to recall three items, she made a couple of attempts, to answer the question correctly. (Even though she suffers from a cognitive impairment the attempt to respond to the question is allowed five-time to meet the question, with the first try is scored). She had difficulty identifying objects such as a watch and pen. The interviewer assigns her a task of folding a piece of paper a certain way than to place it on the floor.
She folded and crumbled the paper into a small square, then placed in underneath her leg.
c. Efficient functioning (Predominant mood, variability, range and intensity of affect)
The patent’s mood was in an emotional constriction; she was labile, her emotional functioning was inordinate apprehension, for example, she was fidgeting, and hand wringing.
d. Values and self-concept: Values- She seems confused to the questions that were asked by the interviewer. Perceptions needed questions repeated, and seem confused at first in the conversation. Self-concept- Her mental capacities for general intellect: low
intelligence.
e. Attitude toward the interviewer: Her attitude towards the interviewer was cooperative; she remained quite when he was speaking to her and only gave answers the questions he asked outright.
2. Is there any area in which you lack information? How would you go about getting the information in a subsequent session? I would request her medical records and like to have more information about her cognitive development. Is she in treatment for addressing a traumatic event or a mental diagnose.
3. To what extent might the nature of the interview and the worker’s style and characteristics have affected the clients’ presentation of themselves in the session? I feel the interviewer was patient towards the client. Not understanding why, she was taking the MMS test and why she was seeing a therapist? There was no assessment taken in the session to help understand the nature of the interview.