- Summarize a case conceptualization for a client in 8 to 10 pages.
- 2. Biopsychosocial assessment interview: Summarize a client’s presenting problem, history, and information from the biopsychosocial assessment interview.
- 3. Cultural interview: Interpret the cultural factors influencing the client’s help-seeking behaviors to determine an effective method of assessment.
- 4. Mental status: Summarize the client’s activity, mood and affect, thought process, content and perception, cognition, insight, and judgment from the biopsychosocial assessment.
- 5. Case summary: Summarize the legal, ethical, and cultural considerations for this client along with their strengths and challenges and your rationale for a diagnosis.
- 6. Assessments and diagnosis: Identify a diagnosis and the formal and informal assessments used to make the diagnosis, using the diagnostic title, code, and specifiers from the DSM-5.
- 7. Case conceptualization: Explain the theoretical framework applied in this case to interpret the client’s responses about their symptoms and issues.
20% of total grade8. Clinical documentation: Summarize clinical case notes from 3 sessions with the client, including recommendations for this client’s future use of groups and local resources.
Support your work with this client with at least 1 citation from each of these resources: ACA Code of Ethics; AMCD Cultural Competencies; current DSM; at least 1 peer-reviewed article to support use of theory with client; assessment instrument(s); state or federal laws guiding care/clinical practice; professional sources to address the client’s unique needs, such as SAIGE, ASERVIC, ARCA disability related counseling competencies, etc.
