Retaining Organizational Character In A Crisis

Application: When documenting treatment or evaluation, the psychologist is attentive to situational factors that may affect the client's psychological status. The psychologist is often asked to assess or treat individuals who are in crisis or under great external stress. Those stresses may affect the client's functioning in that setting, so that the client's behavior in that situation may not represent the client's enduring psychological characteristics. For example, a child subjected to severe physical abuse may produce low scores in a cognitive assessment that may not accurately predict the child's future functioning. Or a psychologist writing a case summary regarding a client who had only been violent in the midst of a psychotic episode is careful to record the context in which the behavior occurred. The psychologist strives to create and maintain records in such a way as to preserve relevant information about the context in which the records were created.

Retaining Organizational Character in a Crisis

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