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Assessment 2 Case studies Total weight 60% Due date Week 12 -End of september Word length 3000 words (± 10%) Students will be provided with a set of case studies (please check on HELP) drawn from across four main developmental periods. You will choose three cases representing three different developmental periods, and write approximately 1000 words on each. For each case study address the following as a minimum (in no particular order): · What seems to be the most prominent or expected/likely issue(s) that need(s) to be addressed? · Is the issue relevant to physical, cognitive, emotional or moral aspects of development? · What developmental psychology concepts and theories are most relevant to the client and their issues and why? · Do these theories help clarify the client’s difficulties? Is there a particular area of impeded development? · What can be said about the aetiologies and prognoses on the basis of theory? For example, does an event in an earlier developmental period explain the symptoms presented? Note that this should not be a mini essay, but rather be infused with their own thoughts and views and their own development as they progressively master the material encapsulated by this subject. While this section is to be personal, it should not be conversational – students should still write in a concise academic style (though that should be in active voice and may be in first-person), salted with well-placed references that bolster the student’s views and experience. In terms of structure, keep the five sections separate – one section for each case study, a section for the personal reflection, and a reference list. Subheadings may be used (or not) for the case studies if students address each one in a systematic manner. An overall introduction is not needed, nor an overall conclusion, nor an abstract. Word count should also not be wasted laboriously detailing the case study (or overly defining concepts or inserting quotes of little value. As this is an applied assignment, knowledge will be assessed by how well the concepts are applied rather than how well they are described. Students will also be assessed with regard to the quality of resources used. An overreliance on text book information is not encouraged. Instead, students are expected to be critical consumers of knowledge and consider the applicability of theory and research findings to deliver counselling in the contemporary Australian setting. ASSESSMENT TWO –case studies Please find below 4 groups of 2 case studies. You are required to pick one case study from 3 of the 4 groups. For example, you could choose: Case Study 1 from group 1, Case Study 1 from group 2 and Case Study 2 from group 4. You must not choose two case studies from the same group. The instructions on how to address each case study is on pages 12 and 13 of your Study Guide. GROUP 1 Case Study 1 Agency: Counselling centre at a high school Client: A 16-year old high school girl wants to know if there is anything she can do to stop some boys in her class from talking about her. One weekend a bunch of girls and boys who were friends went to the beach for a weekend night to camp. That night one of the boys tried to have sex with her. She really didn't even want to be in the same tent as the boys in the first place but, since they were friends, she thought it would be no big deal. But when he started to feel her body, she froze and did not know what to do. Now everyone in her school knows because the boy and his friends went around and bragged saying that he had sex with her. She says nothing happened as far as she can remember; they did do some drinking that night. She is very angry at him and his friends for saying things like they did, as well as hurt, guilty, and ashamed about the entire incident. She is also worried about how others will now look at her ("easy" and a "slut"). She comes in to talk about what she can do, knowing that she is not that type of person. Case Study 2 Agency: Outpatient General Pediatrics Clinic Client: A 14 -year old boy, Keith, is brought in by his mother to see the doctor for "anger problems" and is asked to see the counsellor with his mother after he had yelled "I hate you" to the examining doctor and refused to answer the doctor's questions. The boy's older brother is currently in a boy's home for troubled youth and the mother is trying to keep Keith out of a home. However, he constantly gets in trouble in school, openly disregards his mom and step-dad's rules, and sets fires in the home. GROUP 2 Case Study 1 Agency: College counselling center Client: A single, white female student (or male) at the college. She is 21-years old and comes from a very conservative family in which the parents are very old fashioned and set in their ways. She has recently told her parents that the guy she has been dating is African American. Her parents are very upset and hurt by this. They have just sent a letter telling her how disappointed they are in her and how they definitely don't approve of her seeing this guy. She respects her parents but feels that she has to start making her own choices and living her own life. She is upset and hurt by her parents reaction, scared of what will come in the future, and guilty about going against her parent’s wishes. She is insistent on knowing what she should do. Case Study 2 Agency: Half-way house for prisoners Client: A 23-year old resident arrived at the house yesterday and is seeing the counsellor for the first time today. She (or he) was committed to prison a year ago for possession of narcotics. At that time she was a resident of a large city about 80 miles away from the city where the half-way house is located. The resident’s parents still live in the large city. Her year in prison was uneventful, according to the prison record. She has a high school education and a work history of mostly short-term and part-time jobs, none of them requiring much skill. The resident is required to find a job in order to stay at the half-way house. GROUP 3 Case Study 1 Agency: Community agency serving persons who are chronically mentally ill Client: A 50-year old male (or female) client who is currently hospitalised in an acute care hospital for a suicide attempt. Suicide was attempted by a combination of medication overdose, alcohol abuse, and wrist slitting. The client is not happy that the attempt failed. He is already talking about the "next time" and how he will do things differently and more violently so that he will be successful in dying. He does not want to go back to his apartment as it is the landlord that found him unconscious and called 911. He would really like to be left alone. He is experiencing and has experienced tremendous emotional pain. His mental illness involves hallucinations and delusions, including but not limited to believing that aliens are shooting him with lasers and Satan lives in his pancreas. He has no family and the nature of his illness is such that it is difficult for him to make and sustain friendships. He has occasionally been able to hold a part-time job but it has been at least 4 months since his last job. Case Study 2 Agency: Gilda's Club, a cancer support center Client: A 57-year old woman, Sally, who has been a volunteer at Gilda's Club for 3 years. She is very involved in the club. Sally is famous for the homemade cookies she brings in weekly, and also volunteers as the instructor for the Tuesday morning art class. Sally comes to Gilda's on Thursday morning to bring by some cookies she had baked the night before. While she is there she talks to the counsellor as she has just found out her husband has been diagnosed with Multiple Myeloma, a type of blood cancer. This particular type of cancer is not curable, which Sally already knows. She has considerable knowledge of cancer from being around Gilda's Club regularly. Sally's husband, Rick, is 65 years old and is also an active financial donor at Gilda's Club. Sally is afraid that at this point in his life there is not a lot that can be done for her husband's condition. They just received this information 2 days ago and Rick has been uncommunicative and depressed since hearing the diagnosis. He says he does not want to talk about it. Sally wonders how they are going to deal with his illness and feels very alone in her fear and sadness. She looks to you to provide some comfort. GROUP 4 Case Study 1 Agency: Retirement village Client: An 85-year old woman, resident of the retirement village. She has lived at the retirement village for approximately 15 years, living in the least restrictive part of the home, having her own room and the freedom to come and go as she wishes. The counsellor has been asked to visit the resident to talk about her being moved to the next restrictive level of care, supportive care, because of late the resident has had problems with being incontinent. She has been seen around the village with urine-soaked and/ or stained clothing. Other residents have noticed this and have complained about her odour as well. The retirement village has a policy that when people are unable to keep themselves clean, they must move to supportive care. Case Study 2 Agency: Retirement village Client: A 92-year old woman whose grandchildren