Required Readings

You have multiple podcasts and readings this week – one chapter from your textbook, one podcast on Chapter 13, and one podcast on suicide. The chapter and materials this week are focused on the variety of clinical assessments, observations, inventories, and what they measure. Second, the week will explain and review the purpose of assessment reports, each section of the assessment reports, and the qualities of excellent assessment reports – this is from the chapter on Communicating Assessment Results. The Chapter 13 podcast is simply a review of the materials in the text for those who like to have the audio review, but the suicide podcast is new material to supplement your textbook.

Please complete the readings and listen to the podcasts listed below:

• Textbook: Assessment Procedures, Chapter 13 “Clinical Assessment"
  
  
• Document: Sample MMSE for Reading
  
  
• Document: Sample MSC for Adolescents
   
• Document: ASEBA Manual Excerpt
   
• Document: Example Assessment Report
  
  
• Podcast: HT008 Suicide Assessment- ACA podcast.
  
  
• Flash presentation: Mental Status Exam Take time to review the individual Flash presentations that demonstrate an interview using the MSE.