Write Advanced Assessment Paper to address competencies and practice behaviors
Write Advanced Assessment Paper to address the following competencies and practice behaviors:
2.1.3 Apply critical thinking to inform and communicate professional judgments
PB: Distinguish, appraise, and integrate multiple sources of knowledge, including research-based knowledge, and practice wisdom
PB: Demonstrate effective oral and written communication in working with individuals, families, groups, organizations, communities, and colleagues
2.1.4 Engage diversity and difference in practice
PB: Recognize the extent to which a culture’s structures and values may oppress, marginalize, alienate, or create or enhance privilege and power.
2.1.6 Engage in research informed practice and practice informed research
PB: Use research evidence to inform practice.
2.1.10 Assessment
PB: Collect, organize and interpret client data.
PB: Assess client strengths and limitations.
PB: Select appropriate intervention strategies.
Practice and treatment decisions are linked directly to the assessment. We will try to recognize the relationship between the clinician’s ongoing assessment and the practice decisions that are made. Consider the best fit between the presenting problem, theory, and how to measure outcomes with the client. Please use each heading below:
A. Assessment overview.
Restate your integrated assessment from paper #1 or begin stating the facts of the case if you are not using the same client from the first paper. If not the same client, you do not have to do another assessment paper; just provide the summary of the needs of the case following the same format as for paper #1.
B. Theory selection rationale.
In just a few sentences, re-state the theory selected to address the problem areas of the case. How is the theory a good fit to address the client’s needs? Consider other factors that impact this decision, such as time available to provide the service and agency/program restrictions.
C. Review of theory and empirical support.
Support your theory selection through empirical research findings on its effectiveness/efficacy. In other words, how much research did you encounter on using this theory to address the problem areas of your case? What does the research say about how effective that approach is to address the problem on which you are planning to focus in your service plan?
D. Application of theoretical concepts to the presenting problem.
Using theoretical concepts from the theory you chose, articulate the areas you will be working on (e.g. if you choose structural family theory, the core concepts are subsystems, enmeshment, triangulation, etc.) and apply them to the problem areas you identified in your assessment. (Example using structural theory: I will work with the parental subsystem to strengthen parenting skills.)
E. Service plan template and narrative.
Copy and paste the service plan template posted on Sakai and incorporate it into your paper. Complete only the goal, objective, and intervention sections of the service plan and below it elaborate and discuss your service plan in a narrative form. Please formulate a minimum of two goals with its objectives for this assignment. Keeping in mind the theoretical concepts just discussed in D and the problem areas identified, what are the goals, objectives, and interventions you are proposing to implement to facilitate change? Make sure to link your objectives to the goals and the interventions to the objectives (see the service plan example posted on Sakai). Stated differently, each goal will have its own objectives and interventions. Through the objectives you determine the short term steps that will later be evaluated for your final paper. For this paper, however, concentrate on setting goals and deciding what objectives will help you reach them, and
which interventions you will use to get the objectives done.
F. Self-evaluation of your work.
Explore and reflect upon your clinical skills and efforts in the treatment stages of the work with your client. Whether using a real case or a vignette speculate areas that you think could be challenging given the client problem areas and your skill and personal experiences. What portions of the service planning process would be challenging for you and which would not? Were there counter transference issues? Also include an honest contemplation about challenges to self, regarding ethnocentric, racist, heterosexist, ageist, classist, and any other assumptions that we bring and must be tempered with our professional knowledge base, as this awareness influences our ideas about the client’s potential for change. Remember we all bring pre-conceived notions about other people!
Limit your service/treatment paper to 12-15 pages. Please use APA format and use at a minimum of five sources. If you use a client from your field, please disguise the client – do not use names and change details that are descriptive without changing the relevance of those details to the relationship with the client.
COMMENTS FROM 1 ST PAPER:
- Engagement: although it is a good description of engagement process, I did not see the specific application to your clients. What efforts/strategies do you do to build therapeutic alliance with your target client in the assessment? (-0.5 point)
- Assessment: the assessment format that you used can’t provide basic information about your client. I recommend using the basic assessment format (reason for referral, background information, history of illness/mental health, client’s strengths/weaknesses, etc. Also, if you use DSM V diagnosis, you need to add specifier and ICD-10 code for PTSD (-1points)
- Assessment summary: Overall summary is good but need to be written succinctly.
- Theoretical framework: Excellent.
- Excellent reflection.
- Mechanical errors: It is required to write in the third person perspective.
- APA style
1) APA recommends using Times New Roman
2) Book title needs to be italicized. Journal of article needs to be italicized. Check Purdue owl for further details.
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