ORG6530/PSY5290.CLOWk6.4.2014
Description: For your final paper you will write a 5-6 page paper on the following case scenario. In this case, you will be the counselor who sees a middle-aged female for treatment. The client is in a state of crisis. As you write your paper follow these instructions: 1. What social and environmental stressors have affected the client? Explain their effects on the client. 2. Using the theoretical orientation of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, how would you approach and help the client? 3. Using a Psychodynamic theoretical orientation, how would you approach and help the client? 4. Using an Eclectic (from diverse range of sources) approach in your theoretical orientation, how would you approach and help the client? 5. Explain how diversity might potentially affect how you view and treat the client. 6. Provide at least eight scholarly citations, not including assigned course readings, to support your perspectives. Case Scenario: Linda is a 42 year old Hispanic female, originally from NYC where she grew up. She lives in a Southern State because she married a man she met at a university she attended in the area. She works in middle management of the Human Resources department of her company. Her company has given her a 6 month leave of absence to focus on taking care of her personal life issues. Her presenting problem is that she hardly wants to leave her home and suffers very high levels of anxiety when she does so. Every day she finds herself crying and sad. She says that she is not motivated to do anything. Taking a shower and fixing herself up takes major effort. She experiences agitation while trying to sleep. She wakes up exhausted and hopeless. Her medication does little to help her. Recent events are that she found out that her husband was visiting strip joints, paying prostitutes, and meeting women through a dating phone application. She kicked him out of the house. She does not know what she is going to do. She has been married 21 years and has a son and daughter in college who live at home. Her father recently died. She has been the one helping her live-in mother with her legal problems while her sister does nothing nor offers any help. She feels unappreciated and abused. Some years ago, she was in Manhattan, NY visiting family when 9/11 happened. She was several miles from Ground Zero. She experiences agitation while trying to sleep. She wakes up exhausted. Her church friends convinced her to come to see you for psychotherapy. In her first visit, she feels compelled to tell you some early childhood history. At age 8 her grandfather had given her a puppy. That puppy was her world. One day someone left the front door open. The puppy got out and was killed by a truck. She was devastated and did not go to school for a week. At age 16 she was convinced that she was going to marry her dream boyfriend. At the wedding of an older cousin and during the party celebration, she went to the ladies room with her girl cousin. On the way back she ended up in the wrong section of the hotel at another wedding celebration. Before turning around, she noticed that her boyfriend was attending that party and was intensively kissing another girl she knew hiding behind the stage curtains. With tears in her eyes, she pleads with you saying, “What’s wrong with me? Everything is dark for me and I’m not sure I want to continue. Everyone wants a piece of me. I give and give and give. I feel wasted. Everyone feeds off of me. I can’t depend on anyone. I trust no one. I feel even God has left me. I don’t have faith any more. Help me! For this assignment, you must also submit a brief 1-2 page counseling session summary including the following: The date of this session. Your mock client’s name, age, gender, race, educational level. The presenting problem. Your chosen theoretical orientation. A brief reflective summary of your perceptions of the outcomes of the session. Point Value of this Written Assignment: 18
Total Possible Score: 20.00
The paper details the social and environmental stressors that have affected the client. Their effects on the client are explained.
5 - Social and environmental stressors, and their affect, are comprehensively detailed and explained.
4 - Social and environmental stressors, and their affect, are thoroughly detailed and explained.
3 - Social and environmental stressors, and their affect, are adequately detailed and explained.
2 - Social and environmental stressors, and their affect, are minimally detailed and or inadequately explained.
1 - Social and environmental stressors, and their affect, are incomplete or not included in the paper.
The paper explains how the student would approach and help the client using the theoretical orientation of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy.
5 - The paper comprehensively describes the student's approach using the theoretical orientation of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy.
4 - The paper thoroughly describes the student's approach using the theoretical orientation of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy.
3 - The paper does an adequate job of describing the student's approach using the theoretical orientation of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy.
2 - The paper inadequately describes the student's approach using the theoretical orientation of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy.
1 - The student's approach using the theoretical orientation of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is either missing or unclear.
The paper explains how the student would approach and help the client using the Psychodynamic theoretical orientation.
5 - The paper comprehensively describes the student's approach using the Psychodynamic theoretical orientation.
4 - The paper thoroughly describes the student's approach using the Psychodynamic theoretical orientation.
3 - The paper adequately describes the student's approach using the Psychodynamic theoretical orientation.
2 - The paper inadequately describes the student's approach using the Psychodynamic theoretical orientation.
1 - The paper fails to describe the student's approach using the Psychodynamic theoretical orientation.
The paper explains how the student would approach and help the client using the theoretical orientation of an Eclectic approach.
5 - The paper comprehensively describes the student's approach using the Eclectic theoretical orientation.
4 - The paper thoroughly describes the student's approach using the Eclectic theoretical orientation.
3 - The paper adequately describes the student's approach using the Eclectic theoretical orientation.
2 - The paper inadequately describes the student's approach using the Eclectic theoretical orientation.
1 - The paper fails to describe the student's approach using the Eclectic theoretical orientation.
The paper explains how diversity might potentially affect how the client is viewed and treated.
5 - The paper comprehensively describes how diversity might potentially affect how the client is viewed and treated.
4 - The paper thoroughly describes how diversity might potentially affect how the client is viewed and treated.
3 - The paper adequately describes how diversity might potentially affect how the client is viewed and treated.
2 - The paper inadequately describes how diversity might potentially affect how the client is viewed and treated.
1 - The paper fails to describe how diversity might potentially affect how the client is viewed and treated.
Writing & Organization
Demonstrates exemplary clarity and organization. The paper contains a well-articulated thesis statement, flawless mechanics, and precise APA formatting.
Demonstrates effective clarity and organization. The paper contains a well-articulated thesis statement, proper mechanics, and correct APA formatting.
Demonstrates adequate clarity and organization. The paper contains a clear thesis statement, adequate mechanics, and mostly correct APA formatting.
Demonstrates some clarity and organization. The paper contains an unclear thesis statement, poor mechanics, and improper APA formatting.
Lacking clarity and organization. The paper lacks a thesis statement, effective mechanics, and proper APA formatting.
Research
Demonstrates exemplary critical analysis of the research materials. The student comprehensively uses varied, scholarly, relevant, and current resources to inform analysis, evaluation, problem-solving, and decision-making.
Demonstrates effective critical analysis of the research materials. The student fully uses varied, scholarly, relevant, and current resources to inform analysis, evaluation, problem-solving, and decision-making.
Demonstrates adequate critical analysis of the research materials. The student adequately uses varied, scholarly, relevant, and current resources to inform analysis, evaluation, problem-solving, and decision-making.
Demonstrates some critical analysis of the research materials. The student partially uses varied, scholarly, relevant, and current resources to inform analysis, evaluation, problem-solving, and decision-making.
Lacking critical analysis of the research materials. The student fails to use varied, scholarly, relevant, and current resources to inform analysis, evaluation, problem-solving, and decision-making.
