Counseling Final Paper: Common Assignment
Goal of the Assignment:
To demonstrate your ability to apply the course content, including the core concepts and either the TST or TF-CBT treatment framework, discuss one of your cases using the following outline. If you do not currently have a case, your instructor will provide a case for you
Tasks:
- Identify one of your own child or adolescent cases. Summarize the presenting problem and relevant history.
- Provide a trauma-informed assessment of your client. The trauma assessment should include a brief description of the trauma HISTORY and a brief summary of emotional and/or behavioral SYPTOMS that have developed as a result of the trauma. Be sure to highlight developmental and cultural factors that are salient to the assessment. Developmental concerns should speak to the child/adolescent’s achievement of milestones –individual, family, school, peers. Is the attachment relationship affected? Discuss how culture interacts with the experience of or impact of trauma.
- Using the core concepts as a guide for prioritizing treatment issues, identify the most immediate treatment issues for your client. Use ONE, NO MORE THAN two core concepts.
- Discuss the efforts you have made to address ambivalence/resistance effectively with your client and family. Identify the resistance/ambivalence clearly – it may be with the child or it may be with the caregiver, – e.g. reluctant to attend sessions, avoids efforts at engagement which is affecting the relationship with the child – or both. Competency 6.2
- Summarize the treatment to date. Indicate where, if at all, you have been able to use elements of the trauma treatment framework you have identified. Competency 8.1
- Using the trauma treatment framework you have chosen as a guide, identify next steps in your work with the client/client system.