Case study LC is a 13-year-old African-American male. He is in the 7th grade middle school, and his IEP classification is speech or language impairment. He receives mandated individual and group counseling once per week for 30 minutes. His individual counseling goal is to be able to identify and communicate his feelings (i.e., anger, anxiety, stress, frustration) by utilizing at least two strategies (i.e., identifying and naming his feelings as things happen and learning new feeling words). His group counseling goal is to acquire two new social skills per quarter, including initiating conversations with peers and adults, participating in turn-taking during structured activities, and recognizing positive social interactions. LC is the oldest child of two kids. It's him and his younger brother CS. He lives with his mom and younger brother. He is high-performance academically and always on the high honor roll list. He is currently residing with his stepdad, his younger brother's father, because his mom is hospitalized after refusing to take her schizophrenia medication and did not eat or drink for two weeks. Since the move to his stepdad, LC has been very emotional and withdrawn because his commute is much longer, and he has to wake up an hour earlier to get to school on time. His stepdad lives in a different borough from the school. LC has shared that he is concerned about his mom's health because she looked very sick when he went to visit her at the hospital.

Questions

Part I. Write up of the Assessment

1)Describe what you learned about the presenting problem.

2)Describe what you learned about the client on the individual/person level (key demographics and any individual risk and protective factors

3)Describe what you learned about the client's family (structure, roles/rules dynamics) and the family-level risk and protective factors.

4)Describe what you learned about the client on the environmental (socio-cultural) level.

5)Based on what you learned about the presenting problem and the information on each of the above levels, write a case formulation

6)Describe an intervention plan that would be responsive to this case formulation

Part II. Discuss the Information Gathered on Each Level

1)Discuss what information was gathered on each level (individual, family, environment)and the extent to which it assisted you (or the social worker on the audio) in understanding the client's situation. This discussion should be informed by the relevant published literature you found about this client population and situation, including what you have learned about the relevant individual, family, and environmental risks and protective factors for clients in this developmental stage. Please discuss any further information you recommend be explored based on what you learned from the literature.

2)Discuss how the information was gathered and explored, including the interviewing skills utilized. Discuss how effective you (or the social worker on the audio) were based on what you have learned about effective interviewing and client engagement for the client's developmental level and any other factors that could impact the engagement process. Be sure to ground your discussion based on the literature.

Part III - Discussion of Case Formulation and Intervention Plan

1)Discuss any literature that supports the case formulation and intervention plan

2)Discuss the extent to which the client was involved in the case formulation process and whether the level of involvement was appropriate given the client's age and developmental abilities.

Integrate the relevant readings and at least three outside scholarly journals/articles sources to support your analysis of the assessment interview.