Vignette Analysis: Design Interventions

Assignment

2:

RA:

Vignette

Analysis:

Design

Interventions

An important part of the skills you will develop in this course is the ability

to design appropriate interventions, and that includes designing an

assessment strategy appropriate to the particular client treated. In this

assignment, you will create an asse

ssment strategy based on the

information provided in the vignette. This assignment is to be completed

individually.

Click

here

to study the vignette.

Tasks:

As a Forensic Case Manager, Laurel is sent to you to conduct an intake in

order to start the assessment process. During that appointment, she

relays to you th

e information mentioned in the vignette. Using the

information found in the vignette, provide a preliminary diagnosis of the

client according to

The

Diagnostic

and

Statistical

Manual

of

Mental

Disorder

(DSM)

criteria.

Create a 2

–

to 3

–

page paper describing

the assessment tools you will use.

In your paper, include the following:

·

A description of the steps you will take to build rapport with Laurel and

help her feel comfortable in confiding in you. Consider the work of Carl

Rogers Person Centered Theory; the work of Insoo Kim Berg Solution

–

Focused Brief Theory (SFBT); and Crisis Theory to help inform your

rapport building with Laurel.

·

A description of what methods you will use to continue with the

assessment process, knowing

this may take three to four visits. Be

specific if you are considering using any instruments or questionnaires.

Explain the rationale for using each method and indicate what

information you expect to find by using them.

·

Given the information you know at th

is point, what would be your

provisional diagnosis of Laurel?

o

Look at a diagnosis for this exercise.

Assignment 2: RA: Vignette Analysis: Design

Interventions

An important part of the skills you will develop in this course is the ability

to design appropriate interventions, and that includes designing an

assessment strategy appropriate to the particular client treated. In this

assignment, you will create an assessment strategy based on the

information provided in the vignette. This assignment is to be completed

individually.

Click here to study the vignette.

Tasks:

As a Forensic Case Manager, Laurel is sent to you to conduct an intake in

order to start the assessment process. During that appointment, she

relays to you the information mentioned in the vignette. Using the

information found in the vignette, provide a preliminary diagnosis of the

client according to The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental

Disorder (DSM) criteria.

Create a 2- to 3-page paper describing the assessment tools you will use.

In your paper, include the following:

 A description of the steps you will take to build rapport with Laurel and

help her feel comfortable in confiding in you. Consider the work of Carl

Rogers Person Centered Theory; the work of Insoo Kim Berg Solution-

Focused Brief Theory (SFBT); and Crisis Theory to help inform your

rapport building with Laurel.

 A description of what methods you will use to continue with the

assessment process, knowing this may take three to four visits. Be

specific if you are considering using any instruments or questionnaires.

Explain the rationale for using each method and indicate what

information you expect to find by using them.

 Given the information you know at this point, what would be your

provisional diagnosis of Laurel?

o Look at a diagnosis for this exercise.