Research AND Abnormal Development/Community Agency and Mental Health Counseling Flashcards
What does each letter stand for in the ABC-X Model?
A - STRESSOR/event
B - RESOURCES available
C - MEANING attached to event/perspective
X - CRISIS
Why is it important to have a system for assessing and diagnosing a client?
Many reasons, but we have an ethical requirement to diagnose when appropriate.
- Benefits of diagnosis:
- Common Language
- Aids in Treatment
- Planning
- Insurance Reimbursement
- Facilitates Clinical
- Research
- Most Effective Treatments
- Name to Symptoms
- Help to find support networks
What are the critical questions to ask when assessing a client’s level of suicidality?
- Do they have a plan?
- Is it lethal?
- Is it specific? (when, where, how)
- Do they have the means to carry it out?
- What’s the timetable?
- Are they intoxicated?
- What’s their level of ambivalence?
What are the 3 prime objectives of an intake interview?
- Identifying, evaluating, and exploring the client’s chief complaint and the associated therapy goals
- Obtaining data related to the client’s interpersonal style, interpersonal skills, and personal history
- Evaluating the client’s current life situation and functioning
What are the 3 prime objectives of an intake interview?
- Identifying, evaluating, and exploring the client’s chief complaint and the associated therapy goals
- Obtaining data related to the client’s interpersonal style, interpersonal skills, and personal history
- Evaluating the client’s current life situation and functioning
- Combined with other information gathered, it leads to a diagnosis.
What is Case Conceptualization?
“the way that professional counselors make meaning out of the information they have gathered, how the client’s presenting concerns are embedded in some theoretical and practical context”
- Organizes information to see major concerns, reasons for these, what’s maintaining the problem, resources, desired outcomes, and strategies.
- Leads to diagnosis and treatment (including theoretical orientation)
- Intersectionality needs to be considered (race, religions, SES, family, etc.) to relate and have effective treatment
What is treatment planning?
“Assessment appropriate to the client’s presenting concerns and a case conceptualization that includes and understanding of what the problem is, how it developed, and how to deal with it.”
- Subjective experiences, behaviors, and Cultural Context
What is a treatment GOAL?
“broad statements of desired outcome”
Example:
Viktor will experience positive mood.
What is a treatment OBJECTIVE?
“statements of observable or measurable outcome targets”
Example:
Viktor will report an absence of suicidal ideation.
What is a treatment INTERVENTION?
“counseling strategies designed to meet the objective”
Example:
Viktor will learn skills to tolerate distress effectively.
What is outcomes research?
“…intended to answer the question of counseling effectiveness. The outcome of a counseling intervention, occurring in response to the therapeutic process, is measured through outcome research, resulting in knowledge about what is and is not effective”
What is a scientist-practitioner?
“Scientist-Practitioner Model teaches professional counselors to view all counseling as a formal research project. By taking a scientific approach to problem identification and using empirical evidence to design treatment interventions, monitor symptoms, and evaluate outcomes, practitioners ideally should become both consumers and producers of research.”
