GWOT V - Psychological Assessment
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drewkittyGWOT V - Psychological Assessment
MHCSO PROTECTED
NOTE: Under the Mental Health Care Standing Orders, access to a psychological assessment is RESTRICTED to mental health care providers treating a patient. The disclosure of an assessment to any other parties, including the patient themselves, their family or next of kin, employers, superiors, etc. is a violation of the MHCSO and is punishable under both civil and military law.
MILITARY NOTE: a psychological assessment may be reviewed, not by a patient's chain of command, but by the Surgeon General chain, for the purpose of determining the fitness and suitability of a military member for a particular assignment or task. Is this such an assessment? YES.
COLLECTIONS NOTE: psychological assessments are used freely in the protection of Sensitive Information, but are themselves treated as Sensitive Information. Unauthorized or illegitimate handling or disclosure of Sensitive Information is a military felony.
Person Evaluated: Captain [Echo 18], Army of the Republic of California
Purpose(s) For Evaluation: Psychiatric & Medical Treatment; Evaluation of Judgment & Decision Making Capacity; Evaluation of Assignment; Suitability For Sensitive Information Access (SSI)
Primary Diagnoses: C-PTSD (Complex PTSD), Paranoia (severe)
Secondary Diagnoses: depression, moderate, coded non life threatening; oppositional defiance disorder, minor, adjusted
Commentary: over seventy percent of Californians have been diagnosed with C-PTSD. His profile is unremarkable except that his initial C-PTSD was childhood origin, resulting in an unusual level of baseline adapation to the events of the Wars.
Severe paranoia is either adaptational or non-adaptational. Subject's paranoia is adaptational, functional and useful.
Depression, moderate, NLT is less common, approximately thirty percent of Californians. This should be monitored with an eye to potential treatment when and if patient is willing to consider it. Ordinary mass surveillance is adequate for suicide prevention.
Oppositional defiance disorder, adjusted, is unremarkable in a military organization. Subject should not be assigned to a significant civilian leadership role (Manager III or greater, or Executive-Intern I) without another assessment.
Psychiatric & Medical Treatment: this patient has consistently and repeatedly refused psychiatric treatment. Four assessments have been conducted: one immediately post rescue by a clinician, not according to current protocols; two covertly conducted by the Collections group; and one formal assessment which the patient was directly ordered to participate in, on pain of dismissal. This formal assessment was overwhelmingly positive, demonstrating full adaptation to a particularly stressful situation for this patient.
Patient has been prescribed a variety of painkillers for chronic injuries, particularly repeatedly rebroken bones of the left hand and wrist and surgical section of all fingernails on his left hand. Based on prescription fills and bloodwork, his use of these painkillers has been remarkably light, mostly to assure sleep.
Evaluation of Judgment & Decision Making Capacity: patient has consistently demonstrated a capability for rapidly making correct critical decisions under enormous personal and professional stresses. Third party interviews have confirmed this. He is capable of hyperfocus, monofocus and diffuse focus simultaneously. The only pre-War assessment we were able to locate was an examination for suitability for working as an emergency dispatcher, which he maxed.
In personal interview subject was determined fit for naval command by the Captain of the Fleet, California Naval Militia at Monterey.
Evaluation of Assignment:
Two Surgeon General Boards have met on this patient. The first board approved him to continue in military service. The second board has approved him for independent command. The minutes of each board are on file but are sealed.
Some discussion was made of restriction of assignments. A repeated concern of both boards is to avoid exposing subject to capture, based on his history of extended imprisonment and torture by Homeland. However, the conclusion is that the subject would either repeatedly attempt escape or succeed in a first suicide attempt. This is the desired response by a commissioned officer.
A standard part of the independent command assessment process is to conduct a 360 degree evaluation of a subject's strong and weak points, for matching with suitable personalities in the command group. Subject's weakest point is in demonstrating empathy; he should be matched with at least two strong beta personalities in the command group if feasible.
Subject is Of Assignment Interest to the following groups: Collections, Provost General, Strategic Defense Force, General Staff, Diplomatic Working Group
Subject is Not Of Assignment Interest to the following groups: Naval Militia, Air National Guard, Bear Force
Note that groups have their own internal criteria for interest in persons. A person without prior aerospace, pilot or strong mechanical aptitudes is unlikely to be of interest to ANG, for example. Bear Force and Strategic Defense Force do not share _any_ information on criteria and non-members of these groups should not make inferences on this basis.
Suitability For Sensitive Information Access (SSI):
Collections Group has granted subject an Unlimited Clearance in the Keywords Classification. Note: an Unlimited Clearance only establishes eligibility to be briefed into keyword compartments.
Basic elements for an Unlimited Clearance include an assessment of fanatic loyalty to the California Republic and the absence of emotional ties through which a person could be blackmailed.
Subject is under evaluation for higher clearances.
Conclusion:
The subject's next assignment will be to: Border Operations.
The subject's next assignment level will be: Commander, Campos Sector.
MHCSO PROTECTED
MHCSO PROTECTED
NOTE: Under the Mental Health Care Standing Orders, access to a psychological assessment is RESTRICTED to mental health care providers treating a patient. The disclosure of an assessment to any other parties, including the patient themselves, their family or next of kin, employers, superiors, etc. is a violation of the MHCSO and is punishable under both civil and military law.
MILITARY NOTE: a psychological assessment may be reviewed, not by a patient's chain of command, but by the Surgeon General chain, for the purpose of determining the fitness and suitability of a military member for a particular assignment or task. Is this such an assessment? YES.
COLLECTIONS NOTE: psychological assessments are used freely in the protection of Sensitive Information, but are themselves treated as Sensitive Information. Unauthorized or illegitimate handling or disclosure of Sensitive Information is a military felony.
Person Evaluated: Captain [Echo 18], Army of the Republic of California
Purpose(s) For Evaluation: Psychiatric & Medical Treatment; Evaluation of Judgment & Decision Making Capacity; Evaluation of Assignment; Suitability For Sensitive Information Access (SSI)
Primary Diagnoses: C-PTSD (Complex PTSD), Paranoia (severe)
Secondary Diagnoses: depression, moderate, coded non life threatening; oppositional defiance disorder, minor, adjusted
Commentary: over seventy percent of Californians have been diagnosed with C-PTSD. His profile is unremarkable except that his initial C-PTSD was childhood origin, resulting in an unusual level of baseline adapation to the events of the Wars.
Severe paranoia is either adaptational or non-adaptational. Subject's paranoia is adaptational, functional and useful.
Depression, moderate, NLT is less common, approximately thirty percent of Californians. This should be monitored with an eye to potential treatment when and if patient is willing to consider it. Ordinary mass surveillance is adequate for suicide prevention.
Oppositional defiance disorder, adjusted, is unremarkable in a military organization. Subject should not be assigned to a significant civilian leadership role (Manager III or greater, or Executive-Intern I) without another assessment.
Psychiatric & Medical Treatment: this patient has consistently and repeatedly refused psychiatric treatment. Four assessments have been conducted: one immediately post rescue by a clinician, not according to current protocols; two covertly conducted by the Collections group; and one formal assessment which the patient was directly ordered to participate in, on pain of dismissal. This formal assessment was overwhelmingly positive, demonstrating full adaptation to a particularly stressful situation for this patient.
Patient has been prescribed a variety of painkillers for chronic injuries, particularly repeatedly rebroken bones of the left hand and wrist and surgical section of all fingernails on his left hand. Based on prescription fills and bloodwork, his use of these painkillers has been remarkably light, mostly to assure sleep.
Evaluation of Judgment & Decision Making Capacity: patient has consistently demonstrated a capability for rapidly making correct critical decisions under enormous personal and professional stresses. Third party interviews have confirmed this. He is capable of hyperfocus, monofocus and diffuse focus simultaneously. The only pre-War assessment we were able to locate was an examination for suitability for working as an emergency dispatcher, which he maxed.
In personal interview subject was determined fit for naval command by the Captain of the Fleet, California Naval Militia at Monterey.
Evaluation of Assignment:
Two Surgeon General Boards have met on this patient. The first board approved him to continue in military service. The second board has approved him for independent command. The minutes of each board are on file but are sealed.
Some discussion was made of restriction of assignments. A repeated concern of both boards is to avoid exposing subject to capture, based on his history of extended imprisonment and torture by Homeland. However, the conclusion is that the subject would either repeatedly attempt escape or succeed in a first suicide attempt. This is the desired response by a commissioned officer.
A standard part of the independent command assessment process is to conduct a 360 degree evaluation of a subject's strong and weak points, for matching with suitable personalities in the command group. Subject's weakest point is in demonstrating empathy; he should be matched with at least two strong beta personalities in the command group if feasible.
Subject is Of Assignment Interest to the following groups: Collections, Provost General, Strategic Defense Force, General Staff, Diplomatic Working Group
Subject is Not Of Assignment Interest to the following groups: Naval Militia, Air National Guard, Bear Force
Note that groups have their own internal criteria for interest in persons. A person without prior aerospace, pilot or strong mechanical aptitudes is unlikely to be of interest to ANG, for example. Bear Force and Strategic Defense Force do not share _any_ information on criteria and non-members of these groups should not make inferences on this basis.
Suitability For Sensitive Information Access (SSI):
Collections Group has granted subject an Unlimited Clearance in the Keywords Classification. Note: an Unlimited Clearance only establishes eligibility to be briefed into keyword compartments.
Basic elements for an Unlimited Clearance include an assessment of fanatic loyalty to the California Republic and the absence of emotional ties through which a person could be blackmailed.
Subject is under evaluation for higher clearances.
Conclusion:
The subject's next assignment will be to: Border Operations.
The subject's next assignment level will be: Commander, Campos Sector.
MHCSO PROTECTED
