Case Study Intervention
For this assignment, refer to the media piece, Blooming Park: Case Study Intervention Plan, to complete the case study treatment plan. You will develop a counseling intervention plan for one case study subject that you will select from the three possible candidates. Use the case study template, which is in the media piece, to type in your responses. You will need to download the completed form from the completed media case study, and then upload it into the assignment area of the course room.
In this assignment you will:
- Articulate the presenting problem by noting characteristics, risk factors, and warning signs of students at risk for mental health and behavioral disorders, using skills to critically examine the connections between social, familial, emotional, behavior problems, and academic achievement while considering biological, neurological, physiological, systemic, and environmental factors that affect human development, functioning, and behavior.
- Review possible assessment techniques used for diagnostic and intervention planning purposes.
- Discuss common medications used with this disorder and any that affect learning, behavior, and mood in children and adolescents.
- Discuss a preferential theoretical foundation by explaining theories and models of counseling (ex: Psychodynamic, Humanistic, Cognitive behavioral, Sociocultural, or Family from Chapter 2 of the 2017 Parritz and Troy text) and how the theory uses a systems approach to conceptualizing the case utilizing essential interviewing, counseling, and case conceptualization skills.
- Create short and long term intervention plan goals including the development of measurable outcomes for clients.
- Discuss the legal and ethical concerns specific to school counseling that are ethically and culturally relevant strategies for promoting resilience and optimum development and wellness across the lifespan.
- Identify the multiple professional roles and functions of counselors across specialty areas and their relationships with human service and integrated behavioral health care systems, including inter-agency and inter-organizational collaboration and consultation with other professionals by naming possible community resources and referral sources, explaining strategies to promote student understanding of and access to a variety of community-based resources.
- Develop a suggested school counseling intervention plan that is developmentally relevant using techniques of personal/social counseling in school settings for the student.
- Remember to communicate in a manner that is scholarly and consistent with expectations of an effective professional school counselor adhering to APA formatting.
Requirements
Your assignment should meet the following requirements:
- Template: Use the case study template (accessible in the Blooming Park: Case Study Intervention Plan media) to type in your responses.
