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Description For those working in the clinical mental health field, the first step in creating a treatment plan is selecting an appropriate Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) diagnosis

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For those working in the clinical mental health field, the first step in creating a treatment plan is selecting an appropriate Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) diagnosis. If you are working in the school setting, your first step is identifying a main issue, if no diagnosis is provided. Once a diagnosis or an issue is selected, then you can begin to create goals. Goals are used to help select appropriate interventions to use in session.

An additional step, when working with minors, is the consultation with caregivers and/or teachers. It is critical to include others in the process of helping the client to be as successful as possible and maintain consistency and transparency.

Your Final Project is an exercise in selecting appropriate interventions to help clients meet their overall goals and gathering resources to provide to caregivers or teachers, while accounting for any potential cultural considerations. For your Final Project, you will create a treatment plan for a fictional client. This treatment plan will incorporate three interventions/techniques that use play therapy or an expressive arts intervention. You must select at least one of each. For example, you may research two play therapy techniques and one expressive arts intervention. Then, for each intervention/technique, you will create a 1-page bulleted outline and an infographic to educate parents/caregivers.

To prepare for the Assignment:

• Select a disorder experienced by children or adolescents.
• Create a fictional client profile that includes age, ethnicity/race, gender, grade level, socio-economic status, sexual orientation, religion, intellectual abilities, physical abilities, and any other areas you think would be important to consider, such as cultural considerations. Your fictional client must have been affected by a traumatic or adverse experience (for example, you decide your client’s parents had an amicable or nasty divorce, that the child suffered from abuse or neglect, or you can choose another adverse experience).
• Review the Assignment questions that are included in the instructions listed below.
• Research play therapy or expressive arts interventions that could work with your fictional client. Note: You will need to select a total of three intervention/techniques.
• Research resources to provide parents/caregivers and teachers to support your identified intervention with the client.
• Consider how any potential cultural considerations may affect your client and the counseling process.

Submit the following for the Treatment Plan:

Page 1:

Create a cover page that provides your fictional client’s profile. The profile must include:

• The client profile, including age, ethnicity/race, gender, grade level, socio-economic status, where the client lives, whom the client lives with, sexual orientation, religion, intellectual abilities, physical abilities, and any other areas you think would be important to consider, such as cultural considerations
• A referral reason/concern

Pages 2–4:

Create a 1-page bulleted outline for each of the three interventions/technique. Each outline must include:

• A brief written description of the technique or intervention and its expected benefits
• The materials required to implement the technique or intervention
• A 1-paragraph rationale as to why this intervention is helpful for your fictional client
  • Include the relevant unique characteristics of the child/adolescent that would make this technique appropriate, for example, a child who likes to create, an adolescent who likes to read, a child who likes to be physically active, an adolescent who has difficulty or opening conversations with peers. Include any cultural considerations and whether age range is a factor and why (or why not).
• At least one peer-reviewed research article citation that supports your rationale to use this intervention
• One resource to provide a teacher of your client
  • Include the resource in your paper as an Appendix, if it is a handout. If your resource is a website or a book reference, make sure to include the link to access the information.
  • Write a 1-paragraph email to the teacher explaining why this resource supports the client.

Pages 5–7:

Create an infographic for each of the three interventions/technique to provide parents/caregivers that should include:

• One resource to provide parents/caregivers
• An explanation for why this resource supports parents/caregivers and the child/adolescent

Your Final Project should total at least 7 pages and include:

• A cover page with a client profile
• Three 1-page bulleted outlines for the interventions/techniques
• Three infographics for the interventions/technique to provide parents/caregivers

  REQUIRED READINGS

  American Psychological Association (APA). (2020). Publications and resources. https://www.apa.org/pi/families/resources

  Stinson, J. D., Quinn, M. A., & Levenson, J. S. (2016). The impact of trauma on the onset of mental health symptoms, aggression, and criminal behavior in an inpatient psychiatric sample. Child Abuse and Neglect, 13. https://doi-org.ezp.waldenulibrary.org/10.1016/j.c...

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