For this assignment, you will take on the role of a mental health professional providing a
consultation to a colleague. Your colleague in this case happens to be a licensed clinical
psychologist. Carefully review the PSY645 Fictional Mental Health Consultation
Scenario (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. which provides information on your
colleague’s patient and specific questions your colleague has posed to you as a consultant. Once
you have reviewed the scenario, research a minimum of two peer-reviewed articles in the
Ashford University Library related to the situation(s) presented in the scenario and how these
have been approached and treated in previous cases.
Write an evaluation of the patient’s symptoms and presenting problems within the context of one
theoretical orientation (e.g., psychoanalytic, cognitive, behavioral, humanistic, etc.). Summarize
views of these symptoms and presenting problems within the context of at least one historical
perspective and two theoretical orientations different from the one used in your evaluation (e.g.:,
cognitive, humanistic, psychodynamic, integrative) in order to provide alternative viewpoints. To
conclude, justify the use of diagnostic manuals and handbooks besides the DSM-5 that might be
used to assess this prospective patient.
The Mental Health Consultation:
 Must be two to three double-spaced pages in length (not including title and references
pages) and must be formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing
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 Must include a separate title page with the following:
o Title of paper
o Student’s name
o Course name and number
o Instructor’s name
o Date submitted
 Must use at least two peer-reviewed sources in addition to the course text.
 Must document all sources in APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.
 Must include a separate references page that is formatted according to APA style as
outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.