Trauma Disorders Addressing Mental Health Issues Journal
Trauma Disorders Addressing Mental Health Issues Journal
CASE: The client is a 40 years old African American male with a history of Cannabis Use Disorder, and Depression. He identified drugs of choice as marijuana and cocaine last used as 07/04/20. He used 1.5-gram three-time weekly. Client denied history medical conditions. The client presents with a depressed mood. He reported he does not have interest in doing things, not sleeping well, feeling restless, or sad. He reported that he started using drugs to help with mood. The . Using substances helped with my mood. The client reported that his family suffered for his behavior. During the interview, the client reported experiencing depression. At the time of assessment, the client denied any current thought, plan, or intent to harm himself or others. No delusions and hallucinations observed or reported.
Select a client whom you observed or counseled this week. Then, address the following in your Practicum Journal:
- Describe the client (without violating HIPAA regulations) and identify any pertinent history or medical information, including prescribed medications.
- Using the DSM-5, explain and justify your diagnosis for this client.
- Explain whether motivational interviewing would be effective with this client. Include expected outcomes based on this therapeutic approach. Support your approach with evidence-based literature.
- Explain any legal and/or ethical implications related to counseling this client.
You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.
Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.
Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding†to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.
The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.
