What kind of supervision would you need to stay within your scope of competent practice?

Clinical Evaluation and Case Conceptualization
Chose a case study and clinical theory that you would use
as the therapist working with the case you selected for this assignment. Write
a 10–13 page paper that includes the following two parts:
Part 1: Clinical Evaluation
In this 4–5 page section of your paper, complete the
following:
·
Discuss which clinical theory you have chosen for your case
study, including how you made your choice of one of the following:
o Bowen Family
Systems.
o Structural Family
Therapy.
o MRI Brief Therapy.
o Milan Systemic
Therapy.
o Solution-Focused
Brief Therapy.
o Narrative Therapy.
o Emotionally Focused
Therapy.
o Contextual Family
Therapy.
o Feminist Family
Therapy.
·
Address the following points using your chosen theory as a lens:
o How would assess
the clients in the case study?
o Who would you meet
with, and in what sequence?
o What assessment
methods, formal or informal, would you use to gather information?
o Which areas would
you consider most important to investigate?
o What are the
clinical issues that this case presents?
o How would your
chosen clinical approach describe these issues?
o How would this
clinical issue have been viewed in the past?
o If the contemporary
perspective is different, what has influenced the change?
o What diversity
issues are relevant to this case?
o What aspects of
diversity would you need to know more about to understand the context of these
clients?
o What ethical,
legal, or crisis issues in this case would you need to attend to?
o What issues raised
by this case would require you to research the clinical literature to expand
your knowledge or seek supervision to cope with areas of discomfort or bias?
o What kind of
supervision would you need to stay within your scope of competent practice?
·
Evaluate the need for referral to community resources. What
options for these resources exist in your community? Be specific.
Part 2: Case Conceptualization
Based on your choice of theory and case study from Part 1
of this assignment, consider these questions:
·
What would the clinical goals be with these clients?
·
How would the goals be formulated in accordance with your
clinical approach?
To answer these questions, address the following in 6–8
pages:
·
Using your chosen family systems theory, develop a basic,
systemically based treatment plan for use with these clients.
o One option is to
choose at least one short-term, medium-term, and long-term goal targeted at the
whole system or chosen subsystems depending on the case, then identify specific
interventions from your chosen theory to achieve each goal. However, your
treatment plan should be driven by your choice of theory. Remember,
interventions are therapist actions that encourage, invite, or support change.
o You may find that
the nature of the case suggests interventions that do not fit with your chosen
theory, such as psychoeducation about birth control options if using Bowen
family therapy. You may include these in your treatment plan as long as you
articulate a clinically sound rationale, grounded in professional literature,
for doing so.
·
Discuss how the application of your treatment accounts for the
diversity issues relevant to this case. How might your chosen theory or
interventions need to be adapted to be culturally sensitive?
·
Discuss how your own identities—gender, race or ethnicity, age,
religion, disability, relationship status, and so on—inform your work with
these clients. Consider ways in which you might be similar to or different from
one or more members.
Additional Requirements
·
Written communication: Written
communication is free of errors that detract from the overall message.
·
APA formatting: Resources and
citations are formatted according to current APA style and formatting.
·
Number of resources: Use a minimum of 4 scholarly resources, including citations for
the founders of the identified theory. Textbooks are not considered scholarly
references in this context.
·
Length of paper: Write 10–13
typed, double-spaced pages of content plus title and reference pages.
·
Font and font size: Use Times New
Roman, 12-point font.

Some Reference:
LGBTQ
Clients in Therapy
Bloom, Z. D., Gutierrez, D., Lambie, G. W.,
& Ali, S. (2016). Counselors’ comfort with sexuality, attitudes towards pornography,
and propensity to assess and treat client issues related to pornography use. Journal of Mental Health Counseling, 38(4), 327–345.
·
Friedman, C., Arnold, C. K., Owen, A. L., & Sandman, L.
(2014). “Remember our voices are our tools:” Sexual
self-advocacy as defined by people with intellectual and developmental
disabilities. Sexuality and Disability, 32(4),
515–532.
·
Kattari, S. (2015). ‘Getting it’: Identity and sexual communication for sexual and
gender minorities with physical disabilities. Sexuality and Culture, 19(4), 882–899.
·
Klesse, C. (2014). Polyamory: Intimate practice, identity or sexual orientation? Sexualities, 17(1/2), 81–99.
·
Walker, A. (2014). “I’m not a lesbian; I’m just a freak”: A pilot study of
the experiences of women in assumed-monogamous other-sex unions seeking secret
same-sex encounters online, their negotiation of sexual desire, and meaning-making
of sexual identity. Sexuality and Culture, 18(4),
911–935.
Use the Internet to complete the following:
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Sheypuk, D. (2015). Every body: Glamour,
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Cravens, J. D., & Whiting, J. B. (2014). Clinical implications of
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·
Johnson, S., & Zuccarini, D. (2010). Integrating sex and
attachment in emotionally focused couple therapy. Journal of Marital & Family Therapy, 36(4), 431–445.
·
Kolmes, K., & Witherspoon, R. G. (2017). Therapy with a
consensually nonmonogamous couple. Journal of Clinical Psychology,
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Reibstein, J. (2013). Commentary: A different
lens for working with affairs: Using social constructionist and attachment
theory. Journal of Family Therapy, 35(4),
368–380.
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Rosenbaum, T. Y., De Paauw, E., Aloni, R., & Heruti, R. J.
(2013). The ultra-orthodox Jewish
couple in Israel: An interdisciplinary sex therapy case study. Journal of Sex and Marital Therapy, 39(5), 428–435.
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McGrath, M. (2016). No sex marriage –
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Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVgzOyHVcj4
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