For this assignment, complete the first half of your case study project, the Assessment Process. Use the case study components presentation linked in Resources to help you complete this assignment. Use these guidelines to format your case study.
Note: Remember, you will select one subject from the four presented to use as your client for your case study. Use this same subject for your Week 10 assignment.
One of the goals of this project is to help you familiarize yourself with resources from your locale that you may utilize once you have begun your professional practice. As a result, some of the basic Identifying Information from each case has been omitted. Use information from your locale, or the area in which you plan to practice, to fabricate information such as address, employment, and referral sources. As you progress through this project, utilize local resources, and state and local regulations and ethical guidelines as your resources.
The components of your case study that you will complete for this assignment, which are included in your Case Study Components presentation, are:
Identifying Information.
Presenting Problem.
Literature Review.
Assessment Procedures.
Diagnostic Impression.
Assignment Requirements
Title page.
Case Study components: 1–5.
Written communication: Use the accepted form and style of the profession, employing grammar, punctuation, and mechanics expected of graduate-level composition and expression.
APA formatting: Resources and citations should be formatted according to current edition APA style and formatting guidelines.
Number of resources: A minimum of five scholarly resources with publication dates within the last five years.
Length of paper: 7–10 typed, double-spaced pages.
Font and font size: Times New Roman, 12 point.
Identifying Information
This section will describe pertinent information relative to the client to include:
Client name
DOB
Age
Gender
Race
Address
Date of initial evaluation
Date of plan development
Employment
Referral source
Phone number
For the purposes of your case study, populate the identifying information using references from your locale.
Presenting Problem
What does the client feel is his/her primary problem?
What precipitating factors caused the client to seek out treatment?
Is the client a willing participant in the process or was the person referred by a court?
Make sure that you address biologically-based issues for this case study in addition to any other problems the client presents.
Much of this information is provided in the case study descriiption and video. Integrate that information into your descriiption.
Assessment Literature Review
Based on the presenting issues of your client, develop a literature review that addresses the biological components you have identified. You will use a minimum of five scholarly resources from the Capella library. Cite and reference the resources using APA 6th edition guidelines. You may use your textbook, but it does not count as one of your five scholarly resources. You are also encouraged to use more than five resources if they aid in your assessment.
Assessment Procedures
Provide a brief outline of assessment procedures you would recommend using to assist with diagnosis. Be sure to identify the assessments as behavioral or biological.
Examples:
Rorschach – Behavioral
Blood Workup – Biological
MMPI – Behavioral
Diagnostic Impression
Offer a brief diagnostic impression of the client. Integrate information gathered via the case study and your research, indicating the information that helped you arrive at your diagnostic impression and explanation of the biological processes involved.
COMPONENTS OF A SUCCESSFUL TREATMENT PLAN
Identifying Information
This section will describe pertinent information relative to the client to include:
Client name
DOB
Age
Gender
Race
Address
Date of initial evaluation
Date of plan development
Employment
Referral source
Phone number
For the purposes of your case study, populate the identifying information using references from your locale.
Presenting Problem
What does the client feel is his/her primary problem?
What precipitating factors caused the client to seek out treatment?
Is the client a willing participant in the process or was the person referred by a court?
Make sure that you address biologically-based issues for this case study in addition to any other problems the client presents.
Much of this information is provided in the case study descriiption and video. Integrate that information into your descriiption.
Assessment Literature Review
Based on the presenting issues of your client, develop a literature review that addresses the biological components you have identified. You will utilize a minimum of five scholarly resources from the Capella library. Cite and reference the resources using APA 6th edition guidelines. You may utilize your textbook, but it does not count as one of your five scholarly resources. You are also encouraged to utilize more than five resources if they aid in your assessment.
Assessment Procedures
Provide a brief outline of assessment procedures you would recommend utilizing to assist with diagnosis. Be sure to identify the assessments as behavioral or biological.
Examples:
Rorschach – Behavioral
Blood Workup – Biological
MMPI – Behavioral
Diagnostic Impression
Offer a brief diagnostic impression of the client. Integrate information gathered via the case study and your research, indicating the information that helped you arrive at your diagnostic impression and explanation of the biological processes involved.
Jessica
Jessica is a 34-year-old who became a paraplegic in college after a freak basketball accident. She now works in a government agency as a records clerk. While her job is secure and she earns enough to cover her bills and save some, she has been depressed for the past 10 years. She has been hospitalized on two occasions when she became suicidal, stating that her life was not worth living. She has some family support, but her father is very distant, and her mother busy with a job and children still in high school.
After her accident, Jessica began smoking marijuana occasionally. Eventually, the pattern of use was every weekend and day off, and now she smokes some nearly every day. She is able to function in her job, but is listless. She believes that she cannot cope with the pain of life unless she is high most of the time.
One day she comes to work smelling of pot. Her boss, who is an understanding woman, speaks with Jessica about the absolute necessity that she never come to work smelling of marijuana again, or her job will be in jeopardy. You have been invited to sit in on the meeting as a representative of the agency’s Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and as a possible counselor should Jessica decide to seek help following the interview.
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Mary: Jessica, you are a valuable and responsible part of our staff here. I have depended on you for many things over the past years, and you have always been reliable. However, today you came in smelling like marijuana, according to several people in the office and—I want to be honest with you—there is an odor of marijuana around you now. I am not here to lecture you or to report you. I want to help you. Can you tell me what is happening?
Jessica: I need this job, Mary. Will you promise me that what I tell you stays between us?
Mary: Jessica, as long as you never come in to the office smelling of pot again, this can stay between us. However, if the problems persist, I will be required to take other action. I could not allow someone to come to work drunk day after day, could I?
Jessica: No, I suppose not. OK, I trust you, and you have always been honest with me. What is bothering me is nothing new, and I am sure will not be a surprise to you. I just do not have much to live for. My life was ruined by the spinal injury. The world for me is reduced to a constant struggle to perform basic things like going to the bathroom, preparing food, getting in and out of cars, asking for help, and never being able to have the life that I dreamed of before. There have been times when I had hope that I could have a more or less normal life, or even have a modicum of happiness. But now, after fifteen years as a paraplegic, I don’t see any hope. It will always be this daily struggle, and what for? I know that I am smoking too much dope, but it does help me to get through the day. For a little while, I actually feel good after getting high, and then afterwards I am just numb and I can get through the day. Is not that better than just being miserable all the time? I promise you that I won’t come in to work ever again smelling like pot.
Mary: Thank you, Jessica, for being so honest with me. I think there is more hope that you are seeing now. Would you be willing to consider counseling for help?
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