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Counseling-Based Personality Assessment Prior to beginning work on this discussion, read the Cohen, et al. (2013) and Wu, et al. (2007) articles and review the Evaluating Mental Health Patients (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. and HumanMetrics Jung Typology Test (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. websites.For this discussion, you will be taking on the role of the intake counselor at a mental health facility. In this role, you will facilitate the evaluation of a client based on clinical personality assessments, mental status exam, and observations of the client to make recommendations to the treatment team consisting of the clinical psychologist, counselors, and case manager for the client. Carefully review the PSY615: Week Two Counseling-Based Personality Assessment Scenario (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site..In your initial post, examine the personality assessment instrument used in the scenario and research a peer-reviewed article in the Ashford University Library on this personality assessment. Using the required articles and websites as well as your researched article to support your statements, describe the standard use of this personality assessment. Based on the scenario, evaluate the reliability, validity, and cultural considerations inherent to the personality assessment used and comment on the relevance of these elements within the scenario. Analyze and describe some of t

he potential ethical issues which might arise from the use of this personality assessment in the given scenario. Provide information from your research regarding the use of the personality measure, and assess the value of other possible instruments that could be added to create a more complete assessment of the client in the scenario. Answer Preview…………….The personality assessment instrument used in Jane’s scenario is that of a psychological evaluation. The goal of this clinical evaluation is to examine the patient’s current state of mental well-being as well as the extent to which her condition calls for medical intervention. The abbreviated assessment results from the recommended assessments were based on adjustment levels, symptoms of major depression, a perception of the environment or people, how she reacted to stress, self-esteem and emotional control, social relationships and psychological resources as well as diagnostic impressions (Metrics, 1996). Reliability, validity, ethical and cultural considerations. Personality assessment instruments measure behaviour and as a result, reliability is often attached to the consistency of test results on the same client (in this case, Jane) when tested for the second time (Poston & Hanson, 2010). Validity, on the other hand, is a checklist of how the test conducted is able to meet the set objectives. This is done through external, independent……….APA 368 words
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