Reason For Referral: Jadine's Case Study Of An Intake Interview

Reason for Referral: Jadine is an 18-year-old, Caucasian female who was referred to us by her math professor. She had a panic attack in class. When Jadine came to us we did an Intake interview to help us get a better understanding of what her presenting problems were and to give us a clear understanding of which assessments would be best for us to use.
Behavioral observations
Jadine has indicated that she had pregnancy related complications that may have affected her well-being. She has a poor appetite and has not been eating well, she has never been diagnosed with an eating disorder. She is very stressed out and is unable to relax she has no previous counseling history and there is no history of mental illness in her family. During the interview
This is actually the first interaction with the client you have because the intake interview gives you the first glimpse into your client. According to our text “An effective initial interview is a balance between gathering information and building a therapeutic relationship” (Whiston, 2017). In Jadine’s case we learned that she is in high school, and is married her husband is joining the Marines when they finish school. He is leaving his wife and child behind so that she can continue to go to school. Jadine’s fear is is what will happen once her husband is gone, and how she will be able to handle a child, and school with only the help of her mother and her in-laws. The intake interview also helped us rule out the risk of suicide she did not send up any red flags. If she had said something like “it would be nice to go to sleep and never wake up” (Cengage Learning, 2009) that would have sent up a red flag and we would have to assess how much of a suicide risk she really is. The intake interview is unstructured which makes it an unreliable assessment that is prone to having mistakes in it so it is not valid or reliable. Which is why we use it as an outline and not as a diagnostic
Over al they will provide valuable information about how she will function on a psychological, academic and on a vocational level. The SIT consists of six sessions which totals 291 items on a 5 point Likert scale ranging from strong Like to Strongly Dislike. The STI is “intended to aid educational and occupational decision making, structure the career assessment and counseling process, stimulate client self-exploration, assist in personnel hiring and staffing decisions, and explain reasons for job dissatisfaction” (Donnay). The MBTI was developed to provide information about personality it asks examinees about their interests. For Jadine she has a high level in teaching, counseling, and training employees. The SIT has concurrent and construct validity that is offered in the manual it comprises of 30 BIS and GOT. These correlations show that they are more highly correlated than the GOT and less than others which provides us with evidence of convergent and discriminate validation. “Other validity evidence is found when comparing individual occupational scales with BISs. For instance, for both men and women, the BIS, Protective Services, contains the OS of firefighter and as expected its correlation is approximately .77 whereas the OS of Artist has a correlation of about -.30 with this BIS” (Donnay). The MBTI has a construct validty of the four-factor model it was investigated using factor