Overview and Part 1 of Case Presentation
The purpose of this outline is to help organize and structure your thoughts as you make your presentation to the class. Each student will include Part 1 and Part 2 written assignments. If you include any citations,
please use a bibliography (APA style).
Part 1
Background Information:
- Presenting Problem
- History of Presenting Problem
- Psychosocial History:
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a. Family history
b. Client/Family/Medical information
c. Trauma information
d. Social functioning (not family related information. Social support systems, social/environmental stressors,
conflicted relationships, change in social functioning. - School Information (for youth & young adult)
- Strengths
Brief Mental Status Examination: - Appearance and Behavior
- Cognitive Functioning
- Affect/Emotionality (normal, constricted, labile, appropriate to expressed thought content?)
- Mood (depressed, elevated, anxious, irritable, etc.)
- Speech (loud, pressured, slow, fast, etc.)
- Insight/Awareness (good, fair, poor)
- Judgment
- Thought Process (appropriate, tangential, loose associations, etc.)
- Thought and Perceptual Content (no disorder evident, delusions, grandiose, paranoid, hallucinations,
etc.)
Part 2
Focus on Social Work Practice Skill Development
The following is a list of social work practice skills (you will focus on one of the four skills you have chosen)
and the outline for the elements to be included in your paperpresentation. - Developing the Therapeutic Relationship (Alliance):
Provide examples of:
Tuning In
Building trust
Cultural Competence
Active listening
Reframing
Professional ethics and boundaries - Advancing the Therapeutic Relationship (Alliance):
Provide examples of:
Use of empathy
Transference
Countertransference
Client ambivalence and resistance
Client self-determination
Use of (worker)self-disclosure and the best intere
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Provide examples of:
Observation of non-verbal behaviorbody language (i.e.-appearance, mood, etc.)
Client Demographics (i.e.-name, age, gender, ethnicity, etc.)
Identify client’s strengths and challenges
Bio-psychosocial stressors (i.e.-trauma, unemployment, bereavementloss, homelessness, etc.)
Use of DSM-V
Formulation and Conceptualization of presenting problem
Establishing short and long-term goals
Assessment tools utilized at field site (i.e.-intake, bio-psychosocial, suicide screening, depression scale,
child abuse assessment and risk assessment, etc.) - Interventions
Provide examples of:
Treatment Plans
Clinical approaches utilized at field site such as (not an exhaustive list):
• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
• Psychodynamic Therapy
• Motivational Interviewing
• Solution focused Therapy
• Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
• Trauma-Informed Care
• Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
• Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR)
• Individual, Family, Group treatment