Unit:PSY 503

Name: Nektarios Alexi

Student number: s230670

Instructor: Dr P.S.D.V. Prasadarao NAME: Lisa

GENDER: Female

Age: 12 years old, 9 months

Dates of assessment: October, November 2013, January 2014

Referral Questions

Lisa was brought by her parents. In view of Lisa’s difficulties, her parents would like to know what could be contributing to her current emotional/behavioural problems and have a better understanding about her. Lisa’s parents also requested for specific suggestions how to manage her difficulties and support her.

Evaluation Procedures/Sources of Information

Beck Youth Inventories (BYI-II)

Achenbach Behavioural Scales

Vineland –II Adaptive Behaviour Scales

Weschler Intelligence Scale for Children – …show more content…
For an overview of Lisa’s emotional state the (BYI-II) was administered to her, on 18th of October 2013. She scored below-average on self esteem, Average on Anxiety, Average on depression and Average on Anger, she did not administer the items on Disruptive Behaviours. Overall she seems to demonstrate emotional issues in an average level that may require clinical attention, further tests might demonstrate the possibility more clearly. Furthermore, her below-average scoring on self-esteem might reflect the fact that it was hard for her to make friends in primary school.

Behavioural Assesment. For an overview of Lisa’s externalised and internalised behaviours the Achenbach Behavioural Scales was administered. This is a group of assessments that was administered by the mother and father as the Child Behaviour Checklist meaning that both parents scored items in relation to the behaviour of their child (Lisa). Lisa also administered the Youth Self Reported (YSF) scale, which is an instrument that also belongs to the group of Achenbanch Behavioural Scales, aimed to assess Youth Self-Reported Psychopathology.

On the CBCL problem scales, Lisa’s Total Problems, Internalising and Externalising scores were all in the clinical range for parents' ratings of girls aged 6 to 11 as assessed by her mother and in the borderline clinical range as assessed by her father. However Lisa scored Normal in the …show more content…
Lisa’s speed of processing abilities as measured by the Processing Speed Index is in the above average range of her peers. Processing visual material quickly is an ability that Lisa performs extremely well as compared to her Working Memory. Processing speed is an indication of the rapidity with which Lisa can mentally process simple or routine information without making mistakes. Performance on this test may be affected by visual discrimination and visual-motor coordination. Because learning usually encompasses a mixture of routine data processing (for example reading) and complex information processing (for example reasoning), a high capacity in the speed of processing routine information may make the task of comprehending novel information a very pleasant and interesting activity for