Overview
BoardWeek 2: Weekly Journal Assignment and Discussion BoardWeek 2
Practice Tips and Helping the Client is the topic
• Dziegielewski & Jacinto- Chapter 3• Edwards, J. (2016). Cultural intelligence for clinical social work practice. Clinical Social Work Journal,44(3), 211-220. doi:10.1007/s10615-015-0543-4
• Knight, C. (2015). Trauma-Informed social work practice: Practice considerations and challenges. Clinical Social Work Journal,43(1), 25-37. doi:10.1007/s10615-014-0481-6
• Daniel, S. (2016). Critical thinking in clinical assessment and diagnosis by barbaraprobst (Ed.). Journal of Teaching in Social Work,36(2), 231-232. doi:10.1080/08841233.2016.1137181
• Stein, C., Leith, J., Osborn, L., Greenberg, S., Petrowski, C., Jesse, S., . . . May, M. (2015). Mental health system historians: Adults with schizophrenia describe changes in community mental health care over time. Psychiatric Quarterly,86(1), 33-48. doi:10.1007/s11126-014-9325-3
Taking a Medication History, Documentation, and Treatment Planning
• Dziegielewski & Jacinto- Chapter 4
• Berzoff, J., & Drisko, J. (2015). What clinical social workers need to know: Bio-psycho-social knowledge and skills for the twenty first century. Clinical Social Work Journal,43(3), 263-273. doi:10.1007/s10615-015-0544-3
• Coffey, M., Cohen, R., Faulkner, A., Hannigan, B., Simpson, A., & Barlow, S. (2017). Ordinary risks and accepted fictions: How contrasting and competing priorities work in risk assessment and mental health care planning. Health Expectations,20(3), 471-483. doi:10.1111/hex.12474
• Meyer, O., & Zane, N. (2013). THE iNFLUENCEoFrACEaNDeTHNICITYiNcLIENTS’eXPERIENCESoFmENTALhEALTHtREATMENT. Journal of Community Psychology,41(7), 884-901. doi:10.1002/jcop.21580
The goal of the weekly article assignments is for you to make connections between the content of the course and real-world ethical issues, and to integrate what you learn every week into the way you are thinking about an article of your choice. Through this reflection, you will come up with new insights or understandings that you wouldn't have had before studying this material.
This weekly assignment consists of two parts. For Part 1, you will submit a written review of an article of your choice that you will analyze from the point of view of the topic of the week. You will use the content from class for the week to provide new insights or understandings into the way you interpret the article and what conclusions can be drawn from it.
In Part 2, you will be able to engage in peer reviewed discussion board posts and make the connection back to the reading assignments.
Students will receive an individual grade for their individual assignment
Instructions
Carefully read the following instructions for every component of this assignment. Remember there are two parts to this assignment.
- Part 1 – Individual Assignment
- Find a recent news article (2015 or newer) that relates to the content discussed in that week's class. You have broad discretion in choosing this article. The important part is that the article is, in some way, related to the week's content.
- In a few sentences, provide a brief summary of the article (the key points, particularly those that you find relevant to the week's content).
- Describe how the article is related to the week's content.
- Describe what new conclusions, insights, or understanding you have about the article after considering it within the context of what we learned this week. This is the most important part of the assignment – the goal here is to integrate what you learned this week into the way you are thinking about this article to come up with new insights or understanding that you wouldn't have had before understanding this material.
- Students are required to include article on initial posting
- Part 2 – Peer review and Discussion
- Each student will:
- In addition, students are expected to engage in critical dialogue regarding class readings by responding
each module to TWO (2) reading responses posted by your classmates. Failure to respond to other
classmates reading responses will result in loss of points for that module. - Under no circumstances are Reading Responses to be emailed directly to the professor. They must be
posted on Blackboard to be read and commented on by classmates. Place them on the “Discussion
Board” by the due date as indicated on course schedule. Late responses will be not be accepted nor
counted toward grade.
- In addition, students are expected to engage in critical dialogue regarding class readings by responding
- Complete your Assignment by End of Saturday, 11:59pm
- Each student will:
The purpose of this assignment is to give you experience in understanding the complex nature of psychotropic medication and mental health treatment. For this assignment, students are to select one of the identified documentaries or a popular movie which depicts ongoing medication management and treatment with a client. Students will assess the situation for treatment approaches, outcomes, and possible pitfalls.
Students will complete the following tasks:
- Provide a thorough description (no more than 2 paragraphs) of the clinical scenario and give context to the scenario. This means that enough information should be provided that even if the reader is not fully aware of the situation, they can understand what is going on and the scenario
- Student will identify will provide a DSM V clinical diagnostic impression using narrative approach. This should also demonstrate the students understanding of the suspected disorder(s) and support using observable symptoms. Students will provide a thorough understanding which demonstrates support for this position and how it relates to the scenario
- Student will then review and discuss 2 possible psychotropic medications that can be used to address the above identified clinical diagnosis. This should also demonstrate the students understanding of medications and discuss the benefits and shortcomings (i.e., possible side effects) that client should be aware of.
- Student will then apply a clinical framework and approach to this situation and decide upon a course of action of how to proceed and rationale for selected course of action. Student will elaborate on how this scenario and course of action could potentially affect the client and the therapist.
- Student will provide 2 alternate approaches for dealing with the identified diagnostic impression.
- Student will develop a person centered treatment with both short and long term SMART goals for the client (minimum 2 goals each)
- Student will discuss their clinical diagnosis & approach in the larger urban context of social work practice and what therapist should know when applying these to clinical situations.
Possible Movie Selections Include but are not limited to:
· Good Will Hunting | · Antwone Fisher |
· Girl Interrupted | · Grosse Pointe Blank |
· Ordinary People | · Prince of Tides |
· Stay | · Bliss |
· Dressed to Kill | · France |
· House of Games | · K-Pax |
· What About Bob | · Basic Instinct |
· Mr. Jones | · Prince of Tides |
· Good Will Hunting | · Student Choice |