Case Study Analysis: Adolescence to Emerging Adulthood

For this assignment, you will complete an analysis of a case study that deals with one of the following stages of lifespan development: adolescence or emerging adulthood.

Select one of the following case studies from your Broderick and Blewitt textbook to complete an analysis of the developmental and contextual issues related to the selected case:

• Dean, page 365.
• Angela, page 436.

Each of the case studies includes a set of questions that can guide your analysis of the pertinent issues for the particular case.

Expectations

Address the following in your case study analysis:

• Analyze lifespan development theories to determine the most appropriate theory or theories to apply to the case study.
• Apply the appropriate lifespan development theory to support an identified intervention process.
• Describe the potential impact of individual and cultural differences on development for the current age and context described in the case study.
• Write in a manner that is scholarly, professional, and consistent with expectations for graduate-level composition and expression.

Content

The case study analysis should be a maximum of 5 pages in length, including the introduction and conclusion, each of which should be approximately one half-page in length. The body of the paper should not exceed 4 pages.

Provide the following content in your paper:

• An introduction that includes an overview of the paper contents, including a brief summary and background information regarding the case study.
• The body of the case study, including:
  • The presenting challenge or challenges and primary issue or issues.
  • The appropriate lifespan development theory and research-based alternatives that explain the presenting challenges.
  • The potential impact of individual and cultural differences on development for the current age and context described in the case study.
  • Evidence-based support from lifespan development theory and current scholarly research to support appropriate interventions.
• A conclusion that summarizes what was introduced in the body of the paper, with respect to the case study context, challenges, and interventions.

Requirements

Submit a professional document, in APA style, that includes the following required elements identified with headings and subheadings:

• Title page.
• Introduction (half page).
• Case study analysis (4 pages).
• Conclusion (half page).
• Reference page: Include a minimum of 5 scholarly resources from current peer-reviewed journals as references, in addition to referencing the textbook in which the case study is embedded.
• Font: Times New Roman, 12 point.

CASE STUDY (DEAN)

Dean is a White 16-year-old. He is a sophomore at George Washington Carver High School. He lives with his father and his stepmother in a semirural community in the South. His father and mother divorced when Dean was 8 years old, and both parents remarried shortly after the breakup. Dean’s mother moved to another state, and, although she calls him from time to time, the two have little contact. Dean gets along well with his father and stepmother. He is also a good “older brother” to his 5-year-old stepbrother, Jesse.

Dean’s father owns and operates an auto-repair shop in town. His wife works part time, managing the accounts for the business. She is also an active contributor to many community projects in her neighborhood. She regularly works as a parent volunteer in the elementary school library and is a member of her church’s executive council. Both parents try hard to make a good life for their children.

Dean has always been a somewhat lackluster student. His grades fell precipitously during third grade, when his parents divorced. However, things stabilized for Dean over the next few years, and he has been able to maintain a C average. Neither Dean nor his father take his less-than-stellar grades too seriously. In middle school, his father encouraged him to try out for football. He played for a few seasons but dropped out in high school. Dean has a few close friends who like him for his easygoing nature and his sense of humor. Dean’s father has told him many times that he can work in the family business after graduation. At his father’s urging, Dean is pursuing a course of study in automobile repair at the regional vo-tech school.

Now in his sophomore year, Dean’s circle of friends includes mostly other vo-tech students. He doesn’t see many of his former friends, who are taking college preparatory courses. Kids in his class are beginning to drive, enabling them to go to places on weekends that had formerly been off-limits. He knows many kids who are having sex and drinking at parties. He has been friendly with several girls over the years, but these relationships have been casual and platonic. Dean wishes he would meet someone with whom he could talk about his feelings and share his thoughts.

Although he is already quite accustomed to the lewd conversations and sexual jokes that circulate around the locker room, he participates only halfheartedly in the banter. He has listened for years to friends who brag about their sexual exploits. He wonders with increasing frequency why he is not attracted to the same things that seem so important to his friends. The thought that he might be gay has crossed his mind, largely because of the scathing comments made by his peers about boys who show no interest in girls. This terrifies him, and he usually manages to distract himself by reasoning that he will develop sexual feeling “when the right girl comes along.”

As time passes, however, he becomes more and more morose. His attention is diverted even more from his classwork. He finds it more difficult to be around the kids at school. Dean starts to drink heavily and is arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol. He is sentenced to a 6-week drug education program and is assigned community service. His parents are disappointed in him because of this incident, but they believe he has learned his lesson and will not repeat his mistake. Dean’s father believes that his son will be fine as soon as he finds a girlfriend to “turn him around.”

Discussion Questions

1.

What are the issues facing Dean at this point in his development?

2.

Enumerate the risks and the protective factors that are present in his life.

3.

How would you, as his counselor, assess Dean’s situation? What approaches could you take with this adolescent? What kinds of psycho-educational interventions might you consider within the school setting?

(Broderick 365-366)

Broderick, Patricia C., Pamela Blewitt. Life Span, The: Human Development for Helping Professionals, 4th Edition. Pearson Learning Solutions, 01/2014. VitalBook file.

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Instructions

In this module, you will complete the Module Eight journal activity by using the provided Module Eight Activity Template.

Submit your assignment here. Make sure you’ve included all the required elements by reviewing the Module Eight Activity Guidelines and Rubric.

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If counseling is all talk and no action it is not effective counseling. The problem is that clients encounter many barriers in carrying out actions they identify in the counseling process.

Write a 750-1,000-word paper discussing action planning and overcoming barriers for client treatment. Please use headings and include the following in your paper:

1.Discuss the principles for effectively implementing an action plan.

2.Describe at least five barriers that might interfere with client implementation of the action plans that are created. Include a case example of each barrier.

3.Outline a counselor intervention that would help to overcome each barrier.

4.A list of your local community resources for different types of needs.

5.Outline an aftercare plan that utilized local community resources.  Include at least three scholarly references in your paper.

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This week we will explore the question, “In what ways, under what circumstances, and with which clients should we use prayer in Christian counseling?” You will discuss in-depth the ways in which prayer in counseling is an effective approach to true self-change.

The online lectures and McMinn suggested some “cautions” or possible negative impacts when using prayer and Scripture in counseling.  The importance of those cautions may be better understood in seeking to apply prayer and scripture with a client.  Read the case study below and respond to the following:

1. What would you consider the most therapeutic use of prayer with this client?  Why?

2.  What would you consider to be the most therapeutic use of Scripture with this client?  Why?

3.  As you consider the integration of psychology and theology, discuss how you would integrate theology into this case.  What aspects from psychology would you bring into this case?

4.  How do your responses to the first two questions mesh with your response to the third?  Do they integrate?

Case Study:
Mary is a 28-year-old woman who was referred to counseling as part of her discharge plan from a local psychiatric facility to which she was admitted as a result of a suicide attempt.  She was diagnosed with Major Depressive Disorder.  There was also suspicion that she might have Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID).  Mary’s father sexually molested her throughout her childhood.  He was a pastor and would often quote from the Bible as justification for his abuse of her in an attempt to keep her quiet, such as “Honor your father and mother” (Exodus 20:12).  At one point when she was approximately 14 years old, Mary became pregnant by her father.  When she suffered a miscarriage at the hospital, she disclosed the repeated rapes by her father, and when the doctor at the hospital made the appropriate referrals to police and social services, Mary was placed in foster care.  Mary still reads her Bible regularly; however, she questions why God would allow her father to do what he did to her.  During counseling, she told the therapist that she was still a believer, but that there was a great distance between her and God.

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THIS IS THE INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE DISCUSSION AND THE DIRECTIONS FOR THE ASSIGNMENT ARE BELOW. THIS IS A TWO-PART ASSIGNMENT. PRICE WILL BE FOR BOTH. THE DISCUSSION IS DUE WEDNESDAY AND THE ASSIGNMENT IS DUE SATURDAY AND BOTH BY 10 PM PLEASE.

 

Instruction: Listen to each of the four phone messages. Choose from among the terms provided that might be applied to the individual or situation within the audio recording. The terms include: Alcoholic Dependent Functional Recovering Abuse Addict Social user Defense mechanism Tolerance Withdrawal Note that for this discussion you are not being asked to diagnose the individual on the telephone call or the person he or she is calling to discuss, but merely to demonstrate your understanding of common terms in the field of addictions. There are no right or wrong answers. Post by Day 4 a description of one of the scenarios using two or more of the terms provided. Provide your rationale for the selection of these terms. Finally, select one term that might be applicable across multiple scenarios and explain why.

THIS IS THE PHONE MESSAGE FOR THE DISCUSSION

There were 4 messages and I know you cannot hear them, so I am explaining one to elaborate on. (There is a young college girl who got caught smoking pot by her stepdad and got defensive and denies that she has a problem. She claims it helps her to relax while studying for exams and he is only mad because she spent the money he had given her already. She is blaming it on school cost and the fact that she lives off campus.)

 

THIS IS THE REQUIRED READING FOR THE DISCUSSION& THE ASSIGNMENT.

 

Week 1: The Field of Addictions

Substance related and addictive disorders have a long and complex history. There is evidence that shows that some Peruvians in the 1450s deliberately ingested charred oyster shells to slow down the absorption rate of cocaine found in cocoa leaves (Inaba & Cohen, 2007). And early American colonists viewed alcohol as a healthy substance with curative capabilities. But terminology and our understanding of addiction have changed over time. One has only to look at how terminology surrounding alcohol has evolved over the years in the United States alone to see how attitudes toward substance use have changed, from “temperance as moderation” in the 1820s to “temperance as abstinence” in the 1840s.

Likewise, gambling goes back to ancient times. In many instances, it was also considered illegal. The Roman Emperor Augustus was believed to have had a gambling addiction, yet he imposed laws that prohibited gambling except during Saturnalia, a week-long festival honoring the God of Saturn.

This week, you apply terminology related to addictions. You also examine historical events and emerging trends in the field of addictions.

References

Inaba, D. S., & Cohen, W. E. (2007). Uppers, downers, all-arounders (6th ed.). Medford, OR: CNS Productions, Inc.

History of Gambling. (n.d.). The popularity of gambling in ancient cultures. Retrieved October 25, 2013, from  http://www.thehistoryofgambling.com/

Learning Objectives

Students will:

· Apply terminology related to addictions

· Analyze historical events contributing to the field of addictions

· Analyze trends related to the field of addictions

 

Learning Resources

Note:  To access this week’s required library resources, please click on the link to the Course Readings List, found in the Course Materials section of your Syllabus.

Required Readings

Miller, G. (2015). Learning the language of addiction counseling (4th ed.). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.

· Chapter 1, “Introduction” (pp. 1–7)

 

Focus on the influences of addiction.

 

Barry, C. L., Huskamp, H. A., & Goldman, H. H. (2010). A political history of federal mental health and addiction insurance parity. The Milbank Quarterly, 88(3), 404– 433.

 

Focus on the factors instrumental in eliminating the differences in insurance coverage for mental health and addiction treatment.

 

Grant, J. E., Potenza, M. N., Weinstein, A., & Gorelick, D. A. (2010). Introduction to behavioral addictions. American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse, 36(5), 233– 241.

 

Focus on the terminology and how behavioral addictions and substance use disorders are alike. Note their differences from obsessive-compulsive disorder

 

Lee, P. R., Lee, D. R., & Lee, P. (2010). 2010: U.S. drug and alcohol policy, looking back and moving forward. Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, 42(2), 99–114.

 

Focus on how language can play a role in the public’s understanding of addictions, dependencies, and diseases.

 

National Alliance of Advocates for Buprenorphine Treatment. (2004). Substance use disorders: A guide to the use of language. Farmington, CT: Author. Retrieved from NAABT website: http://naabt.org/documents/Languageofaddictionmedicine.pdf

 

Focus on how language can play a role in the public’s understanding of addictions, dependencies, and diseases.

 

Required Media

 

Laureate Education (Producer). (2012). Addictions terminology [Video file]. Retrieved from https://class.waldenu.edu

 

“Addictions Terminology” Transcript

 

Optional Resources

 

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. (2006). Definitions and terms relating to co-occurring disorders. Rockville, MD: Author. Retrieved from Addiction Treatment Forum website: http://www.atforum.com/pdf/DefinitionsandTerms-OP1-4.pdf

 

 

Harrington, M., Robinson, J., Bolton, S., Sareen, J., & Bolton, J. M. (2011). A longitudinal study of risk factors for incident drug use in adults: Findings from a representative sample of the U.S. population. Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 56(11), 686–695.

 

 

National Institute on Drug Abuse. (n.d.). About NIDA. Retrieved November 30, 2013, from http://www.drugabuse.gov/about-nida

 

Focus on the resources this website offers to addictions professionals

 

 

White, W. L. (2008). Alcohol, tobacco and other drug use by addictions professionals: Historical reflections and suggested guidelines. Alcoholism Treatment Quarterly, 26(4), 500–535.

 

Focus on the ethical, legal, and clinical issues surrounding a person’s right to personal privacy as it relates to professional duties and obligations.

 

 

THIS IS THE DISCUSSION DUE ON 3/3/21 BY 10PM

 

Discussion: Terminology Related to Addictions

Consider this passage from a psychology textbook, Ethical Conflicts in Psychology (Bersoff, 2008): “The method of adjudication for a recommended sanction of expulsion issued under Subsection 7.5 of this part is a formal hearing before a three-member Hearing Committee.”

This passage is not meant to be understood in the context of this course, but to demonstrate that, similar to the field of ethics in psychology, the field of addictions also has its own terminology employed by professionals. For example, although the terms alcohol abuse and alcohol dependent sound familiar, they have very specific and important differences in meanings within the field of psychology, and depending on which term is applied to an individual, it may affect everything from screening to treatment. Everyone may not agree on definitive definitions of terms because there are many gray areas and degrees of addiction. There are also many perspectives regarding commonly used operational definitions of terms. Even so, addictions professionals need to be familiar with the terminology of their field in order to practice effectively.

To prepare for this Discussion:

· Review Learning the Language of Addiction Counseling, Chapter 1, “Introduction.”

· Review the articles “Introduction to Behavioral Addictions” and “Substance Use Disorders: A Guide to the Use of Language.”

· Listen to the media titled Addictions Terminology, featuring four scenarios of individuals making telephone calls to addictions professionals.

· Choose one of the four scenarios to discuss.

· Choose from among the following terms that might be applied to individuals or situations in the audio recordings: (Note that not all of the terms will be used.)

· Problematic use

· Alcoholic

· Dependent

· Functional

· Recovering

· Abuse

· Addict

· Social user

· Defense mechanism

· Tolerance

· Withdrawal

Note:  In this Discussion, you are not being asked to diagnose the individual on the telephone call or the person he or she is calling to discuss, but merely to demonstrate your understanding of common terms in the field of addictions. There are no right or wrong answers.

The media is only a demonstration and does not simulate real-life scenarios. Remember that while you are not diagnosing the individual on the telephone call, if this were a real situation, the person who is answering the call, some cases, is committing a  HIPAA  violation by speaking with someone other than the person with the problem.

By Day 4

Post a description of one of the scenarios using two or more of the terms provided. Provide your rationale for selection of these terms. Finally, select one term that might be applicable across multiple scenarios and explain why.

Be specific and use the week’s Learning Resources in your Response.

By Day 6

Respond to at least one of your colleagues who used a term other than the ones you used in one or more of the following ways:

· Offer polite agreement or disagreement with the usage of the term and explain why.

· Reply using a term from this week’s Learning Resources not included in the list provided.

· Expand on your colleague’s posting.

 

 

THIS ASSIGNMENT IS DUE SATURDAY 3/6/21 BY 11 PM

 

Assignment: Significant Events in the Field of Addictions

The history of the field of addictions brings to mind the idiom “all or nothing.” In earlier times, moderation appeared to have few proponents. The pilgrims in the United States widely accepted drinking as healthy. By the early 1800s, clergymen ushered in the temperance movement, which stigmatized drinkers as “corrupt.” Acceptability of practices such as drinking is one aspect of significance in the field of addictions that has evolved over time. Other considerations include types of addictions, treatment, intervention, and populations engaging in addictive behavior.

Familiarity with historical events in the field of addictions provides addictions professionals with a foundation for understanding emerging trends.

To prepare for this Assignment, read the following articles from the Learning Resources:

· “A Political History of Federal Mental Health and Addiction Insurance Parity”

· “2010: U.S. Drug and Alcohol Policy, Looking Back and Moving Forward”

· Optional readings as you see necessary

By Day 7

Submit a 2- to 4-page paper that includes the following:

· Describe two historical events that you believe contributed most to the field of addictions.

· Explain the contribution of each event to the contemporary field of addictions.

· Explain why you chose each event as being one of the most significant.

· Research two websites dedicated to some aspect of the field of addictions (see Learning Resources for ideas). Analyze 2–3 trends that emerged from your review.

· Cite the sources you used following APA guidelines.

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