working Ahead
Assignment 3: RA Working Ahead
Case Scenario:
You
work for a large corporate business. One of the managers at the company
receives an anonymous e-mail message claiming that a certain employee,
Bob, has been acting strangely and muttering threats to get even with
others. The manager calls the police, who, after obtaining Bob's
permission, search his car and workstation but find no evidence of any
weapons. Bob denies ever making any sort of threat and says he was just
having a bad day.
The
manager asks you to conduct a threat assessment on Bob. The manager
says that the company has the right to conduct a threat assessment, but
Bob is liable to sue if he is fired as a consequence of your findings,
so the threat assessment has to stand up to scrutiny in court. In
addition, Bob must be determined by you to have "fully cooperated" with
the assessment in order to avoid termination. Therefore, you can expect
him to participate in any form of assessment you choose even though he
may lie or misrepresent his answers. If you state Bob lied during the
assessment, he will be fired. This, too, must stand up to scrutiny in
court.
You
review Bob's personnel record. He has been late to work several times
and has even come to work drunk. He missed one week of work three years
ago while jailed on a drunk and disorderly charge. He took personal
leave to cover the missed time, and the arrest was discovered only by a
report in the newspaper.
At
the time of his arrest, he had a gun in his possession, for which he
had a permit and which he could carry as a concealed weapon. Bob has
been divorced twice and has no children. He currently lives alone. He
has completed the eleventh grade but not his General Educational
Development (GED). School records reveal he was often truant and was
suspended three times for fighting. He served two years in the military
and was honorably discharged after being found to have a "severe
personality disorder that made him unsuitable for duty."
Part 1: Planning
Tasks:
On the basis of the case scenario, create a 3- to 5-page plan in a Microsoft Word document addressing the following questions:
- What is the purpose of the specialized interview?
- How will you plan the assessment?
- Whom will you interview and why?
- What will you tell Bob about the nature and purpose of the evaluation and its potential consequences? Why?
- What are the advantages and disadvantages of a telephone interview?
In addition, answer the following:
- What assessment instruments will you administer to Bob? Why?
- How will you evaluate the truthfulness of his responses?
- What methods will you use to deal with Bob's defensive posture in interviews?
Part 2: Client Statement
In Part 1,
you created a broad plan of action to investigate the threat Bob poses
to the company. To conduct the risk assessment for Bob, in this part of
the assignment, you will explore the existing risk assessment
questionnaires you can administer to him.
Tasks:
Create a 1- to 2-page reference paper (below the plan you created in Part 1) addressing the following:
- Identify a single risk assessment questionnaire or instrument used by psychologists. Find four references—web-based references or published scientific reports—on the instrument or on the process of risk assessment.
- Your list of references should include at least two articles for and two articles against the risk assessment questionnaire or instrument in general (write a 1-paragraph summary of each reference you provide).
All written assignments and responses should follow APA rules for attributing sources.
Submission Details:
- By Wednesday, June 18, 2014, save your compiled document as M1_A3_Lastname_Firstname.doc and submit it to the M1 Assignment 3 Dropbox.
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