This week you have been exposed to multiple assessment tools through your readin

This week you have been exposed to multiple assessment tools through your readings. For this discussion, choose and conduct one of these assessments on a family member, neighbor, peer, or coworker. Share which tool you used and a summary of the results from the assessment. In addition, address your feelings on administering the tool and the insight you obtained through the application of this assessment.
Note: Please do not provide any identifying information on the individual you interview—use a pseudonym.
The guidelines for the mental status exam on pages 50–51 of Clinical Social Work Practice text. Use questions 1–14 for the interview.
One of the tools provided in the American Psychiatric Association’s Online Assessment Measures (link in the Resources) for diagnostic assessment tools and resources.
1. Appearance. Is the client well groomed or disheveled? Is his manner of dress appropriate for the occasion of the interview? Is he flamboyant or bizarre?
2. Attitude. Is the client cooperative? Guarded? Suspicious? Aggressive or belligerent?
3. Motor Activity. Is the client calm or agitated? Does he have tremors, tics, or muscle spasms? Is he hyperactive?
4. Affect. Is the client’s tone appropriate to the conversation? Is he, for example, talking about a sad event and smiling? Is his affect flat or blunted, apathetic, or labile—rapidly switching up and down. Is he expansive or constricted? A flat affect is a term used to describe clients who seem unable to relate emotionally to other people. Blunted affect describes a client who has a restricted, minimal emotional response (Sommers-Flanagan & Sommers-Flanagan, 2009, p. 221).
5. Mood. What does the client report? How does the client seem? Is the client depressed or anxious? Is there variability in his mood? Mood tends to be longer than affect and changes less spontaneously than affect.
6. Speech. Is the client’s tone of voice loud or soft, whiny or high pitched? Are there any unusual characteristics or affectations (such as an accent or a halting manner)? Is the speech rapid or pressured? Does he stutter?
7. Thought Processes. Do the client’s thoughts flow logically? Are the thoughts organized or disorganized? Is the client coherent? Are there perseverations (repetitions of thoughts as if the client were stuck)? Does the client experience thought blocking (thought stopping or interfering thoughts) or loose associations (not following logically from one thought to another)?
8. Thought Content. Are hallucinations or delusions present? Does the client speak of being controlled by external sources? Is the content of his thoughts grandiose or bizarre? Is suicidal ideation present? Is the content circumstantial (the client demonstrates the loss of capacity for goal-directed thinking) or tangential (the client loses the main idea of the conversation and is unable to return to it)?
9. Perception. Is the client’s view of reality correct, or are there distortions in his thinking? Is there evidence of depersonalization or derealization?
10. Orientation. Is the client oriented to time, place, and person? How is his memory for present as well as past events? (Does he forget what he ate for breakfast but recall childhood events?) How are his concentration level and attention span? Is anxiety, a mood disturbance, or a learning disability responsible for the difficulty in focusing?
11. Cognitive Function. What is the client’s general fund of knowledge? Is it intact? (This function can be tested by asking the client to count backward serially by sevens.) It is important to consider the client’s intellectual level when assessing cognitive function, as his IQ may impact his ability to perform this as well as other cognitive functions, including the ability to be abstract or problem solve.
12. Abstraction. Is the client an abstract or concrete thinker? (To help you assess this function, ask him to interpret a proverb.)
13. Judgment. Are there any disturbances in judgment? Does the client understand the consequences of his behaviors, and to what degree?
14. Insight. Does the client have insight into his difficulties, or are there impairments (minimal, moderate, or severe) that lead him to deny them? Is the insight intellectual or does he have an awareness of motives and feelings on an emotional level?
https://www.psychiatry.org/psychiatrists/practice/dsm/educational-resources/assessment-measures