Master’s in Counseling, Mental Health and Wellness & School Counseling Tracks

Master’s in Counseling, Mental Health and Wellness & School Counseling Tracks
Alternative Assignment
Spring, 2020
Your scores fell below the minimum required score for the following domains: Research and
Program Evaluation, Group Work. For this alternative exam, we are asking you to prepare a
case report based on your clinical experiences. For every domain listed, you are being asked to
respond to a set of questions related to each content area.
We expect a well-written paper following APA style guidelines. Please present your response in
an integrated, concise manner demonstrating your ability to meaningfully apply relevant
theoretical and/or empirical knowledge to the case study. The estimated length of each domain
response must not exceed 5 pages (this does not include references). Specifically, your case
report should not exceed 3 pages and should be used to answer any and all domain-specific
questions listed below.
Domain Specific Questions:
Research and Program Evaluation. Based on the context of your work with this client (e.g.,
school, community-based organization, hospital), identify an intervention program model that
can be implemented across the setting, expanding the focus of your therapeutic goals to others.
What are the features of this intervention? How will you measure the efficacy of this program?
What type of data should you obtain to examine outcomes related to participation in this
intervention? How will you collect these data? Are there other types of data that are relevant to
collect? Why? How will you use data to further refine and/or support programmatic changes?
How what kinds of dissemination strategies would be important to use to share your findings
with your participants and community partners?
Group Work: Apply the various features of group work into your treatment plan for you case. Is
your client appropriate for group therapy? What kind of group therapy would work well for
them? Why or why not? Which of the Yalom’s basic ingredients (i.e. universality, instillation of
hope, the recapitulation of the primary family group, etc.) do you feel your client would benefit
from the most/or least from being part of group therapy? Note that while you may not have
provided any group intervention at this point, please speak hypothetically about how group work
could be included. Include the advantages and challenges to group work and goals of group.
Perhaps you would work individually with the client and then consider whether having the client
in a group would facilitate their growth? If in terms of your clinical judgment you do not feel that
group would be helpful please explain your decision based upon the criteria upon which group
members are to be selected and/or excluded. Consider the goals of group work and advantages
and challenges to this process.