Colegio de San Juan de Letran

PSYCHOLOGY AREA

GRADING SHEET FOR PSYCHOLOGICAL REPORT

Name of Examiner: ____________________________________________ Section: ____________________

Criteria Points Score Comments

THE REFERRAL QUESTION
a. Problems already noted
15
b. Rationale for further evaluation
c. Type of information that it would be helpful to obtain
BEHAVIORAL OBSERVATION
a. Appearance
b. Description of subject-examiner interactions 15
c. General behaviors (personal comments made by the subject, unusual behaviors, etc.)
d. Specific test behaviors (motivation, defensiveness, attitude toward testing, etc.)
FAMILY HISTORY
a. Ethnic and socioeconomic status of family of origin
b. Brief description of members of the family
c. Brief description of the manner in which the subject is related to the most significant
members. 20
d. Important events that took place in the family of origin
e. Description of the present family if it is not the family of origin
f. Description of the relationship between the subject and the present family members
g. Important events that have taken place in the present family
EDUCATIONAL AND VOCATIONAL HISTORY
a. Extent of the education received
b. Motivation and ability of the subject as student
c. Social relationship developed while going through school 20
d. Types and period of employment obtained
e. Success and satisfaction with job
f. Social interaction with co-workers
INTELLECTUAL ASSESSMENT
a. Some statement regarding the subject’s general intellectual ability should be made.
b. When areas of intellectual strengths and weaknesses are known, they can also be made
implicit. 20
c. If an organic impairment is suspected, this issue should be discussed.
d. Finally, personality aspects that affect the patient’s intellectual functioning can be
discussed.
EMOTIONAL ASSESSMENT
a. Basic personality structure – habitual patterns, view of self and the world, usual way of
relating to others)
b. Dynamic issues – conscious and unconscious motivation 20
c. Situational aspects – situation where subject excels, situations that may present
difficulties, present situation
d. Pathology – defense of pathological reaction
RECOMMENDATIONS
Should include
a. Suggestions of changes in the environment that would decrease the amount of stress.
b. Suggestions of changes in the psychic process that would make the individual better able
to cope with the world
c. Concrete ways of achieving those changes
15
Should avoid inappropriateness
a. No recommendation should be made when the purpose of the evaluation was simply to
gain more information
b. No recommendation should be made in area where the examiner is not qualified
c. It is often felt that the recommendation should be made in an area where the professional
receiving the report is obviously qualified to arrive at his or her own conclusions.
Summary
A brief description of the totality of the personality of the client and how problem areas can be 10
attended to.
Total 145

Grade 100%

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