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For this week’s assignment, review the Background on the Case of Gwenlocated on pp. 13–18 of your textbook and watch the following videos: Chapter 1: Intake SessionLinks to an external site., Chapter 2: Multicultural PerspectiveLinks to an external site., and Chapter 3: Informed ConsentLinks to an external site.. In an 8- to 10-slide, narrated PowerPoint presentation, provide details to the following bulleted items below:
Identify and describe the key presenting issues for this client.
Discuss some of the major themes as demonstrated by Gwen in the videos.
Describe the characteristics of the counselor as a therapeutic person.

  
THE JENNA HARRIS STORY
Jenna Harris is a 33-year-old Caucasian woman and a single mother of three children; a 16-year-old boy named Jimmy, a 10-year-old boy named Hector, and a 7-year-old girl name Kim. All of the children have different fathers, none of whom Jenna married. Jimmy’s father is Caucasian, Hector’s father is Mexican, and Kim’s father is Korean; Hector and Kim’s fathers are both immigrants. Jimmy loves his siblings, but they perceive that he is treated better than them because he is Caucasian.  Jimmy is popular in school, enjoys playing on the football team, and works part-time after school at the supermarket.  Jenna’s new boyfriend of six months, Sean, who is Caucasian, has recently moved in with her and the children into a two-bedroom house in a rural community in Sussex County. This has caused a conflict especially for Hector who is bright but has recently been demonstrating negative behaviors in school such as failing to follow directions, talking back to his teacher, and picking fights with his peers.  In addition, his grades are beginning to slip. Kim, a quiet child, does not want to go to school because she is often teased on the bus and in school for being “Chinese.” Sometimes Hector gets in trouble for defending and protecting his sister from the teasing and taunting. None of the children have a good relationship with their fathers or their fathers’ families. And, while Hector’s father provides financial support, Kim and Jimmy’s father do not. This has provided economic hardship for Jenna who has had to move the family often to find affordable housing. She sees Sean as a hope for some financial stability since he has a good job as a plumber with a local company. Jenna dropped out of high school when she was pregnant with Hector but completed her GED a few years ago. She works at Wal-Mart as an Associate. 
Directions: Be sure to appropriately integrate at least three social work underpinnings covered in this course and address all nine questions below:
I. Introduction (5 points)
a. Provide information that clearly communicates your understanding of the importance of difference in shaping life experiences and diversity while working with others. (competency 2)
II. Presenting Problem (20)
a. Apply the bio-psychosocial assessment to assess this client.
b. What tool would you use to assess this client? i.e. ecomap, genogram, standardized questionnaire.
c. What is the presenting problem?
III. Conceptual Frameworks (20)
a. Describe two theories you would use to explain the client’s presenting problem?
b. How would you apply this theory to the case?
IV. Cultural Factors (20)
a. What aspects (i.e., cultural structures and values) of this case demonstrate oppression, discrimination and marginalization or create or enhance power and privilege?
b. How do these cultural factors impact the children and adults in this case?
c. How does ethnicity impact the self-esteem and development of the children?
V. Treatment Plan (15)
a. Describe an intervention that would be appropriate for this case.
b. Address the aspects of social justice in this case.
c. What are the strengths of the family and how would you incorporate the family’s strengths in the treatment plan to empower them?
VI. Conclusion (10)
a. Summarize the overall case and intervention of this case in one paragraph.
b. How does your self-awareness help you to eliminate the influence of personal biases and values in working with diverse groups like the family outlined in the case study?
VII. Use of the APA including the demonstration of the mastery of good writing skills (10 points)

For this assignment, students will construct an Annotated Bibliography for ONE of your journal articles utilizing the outline from the Annotated bibliography lecture notes in the Week 5 folder entitled “Sample AB.docx” and “The Difference Between a Bibliography and an Annotated Bibliography”. Please ensure its done in a word document, double spaced, and completed using one page in Times Roman Font.

After viewing the video below, we will have a discussion based on the content of the stages of group counseling. Use the text or other researched material to discuss a counseling approach and techniques that could be used at the stage you decide to address in this discussion question. 

Chapter 5 discussed the ethical and political issues related to social work research. On page 111, there are review examples of ethical situations. Select two, discuss the issue, and at least one remedy to address or avoid an unethical situation.

Matt comes to the attention of the counselor through the employee assistance program at the factory where he works. He was referred because of absenteeism and what his supervisor considered “mood swings.” Matt says that he is having a lot of stress at the plant. He has worked there for 12 years and believes he is good at his job. He says that his boss, who was transferred there from another location two years ago, is giving him a great deal of trouble. The two have had so many conflicts that Matt thinks his job is in jeopardy. Matt says that every morning the boss gets on his back about something. Matt wants to fight back, but he knows that he has to avoid trouble. Recently, he has been spending each morning seething. By the time the lunch break comes, he wants to explode. What he does instead is go to a neighborhood bar with a group of coworkers who have been going to the same place for years. 
Lately, Matt has found that he is drinking more beer than usual at lunchtime. Twice the supervisor said he smelled beer on Matt’s breath in the afternoon. The second time, Matt was declared unfit for duty and sent to the medical office. Most of the time, Matt feels as stressed in the afternoon as he does in the morning. As he puts it, “I can’t wait to get home, put my feet up, smoke a couple of joints, and drink enough beer so I can go to sleep and start the whole thing again the next morning.” Matt is interested in making some changes, because both his job and his marriage are close to being over. He feels limited in what he can do, however, because of his belief that the supervisor is the problem. Given Matt’s situation, select one of the following behavioral interventions you believe to be useful?
a. Identifying high-risk situations and discovering better coping strategies for dealing with them
b. Relaxation training
c. Contingency contracting
d. Assertiveness training

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Discuss why it is important to build psychological resilience in yourself in order to best meet the needs of your patients.
4–5 pages addressing the following:
1. What are the physical and mental effects of stress?
2. What is psychological resilience, and why is it so important? (consider pathophysiology and coping skills)
3. As a PMHNP, why is it important to build psychological resilience in yourself in order to best meet the needs of your patients?
4. On a personal note, discuss a healthy coping mechanism that you have in place that will guide you to set healthy boundaries between work and home life as well as cope with stressful cases.
5. What areas of improvement will you set as goals for yourself to work on for your own psychological resilience?

Feedback from the video’s on self disclosure…
Identify a time you witnessed appropriate self disclosure in a group and time you witnessed inappropriate self disclosure. As always you must have 4 quality post. All post can not be made on the same day.

We all live with challenges to our health and wellness. For some it may be eating habits while others may battle time management. Others may face smoking, substance abuse, or many other challenges. This week I would like you to explore the many challenges people face.