FINAL PROJECT PART 1: APPLYING RESEARCH TO A CASE STUDY

FINAL PROJECT PART 1: APPLYING RESEARCH TO A CASE STUDY

FINAL PROJECT PART 1: APPLYING RESEARCH TO A CASE STUDY

Case Conceptualization

The case depicts Jared, a 37-year-old African American man referred to counseling by his girlfriend. Jared served four years in Operation Iraqi Freedom as a marine, and upon returning home, he was served with divorce papers. He has struggled with his divorce and homelessness in the 12 years since returning from his deployment. He has two children, 13 and 15 years old.

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Presenting Problem

The patient presents with clinical features of Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). PTSD can be associated with exposure to and witnessing trauma when serving as a marine in Operation Iraqi Freedom. He presents with features of PTSD, including intrusion symptoms, as evidenced by having unwanted horrific memories and flashbacks from combat (Miao et al., 2018). He also has avoidance as he tries to block the horrific memories from combat. Besides, Jared has negative alterations in mood, seen with a short temper, isolation, and being emotional. Alterations in arousal and reactivity are also present, seen with irritability and concentration difficulties (Schrader & Ross, 2021). The PTSD symptoms have created distress and functional impairment in the patient.

Counseling Intervention

Prolonged Exposure Therapy will be investigated for use with Jared. Foa et al. (2018) explain that Prolonged exposure therapy for PTSD is a manualized, trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy with empirical support in civilians and veterans. It entails repeated and prolonged recounting of the traumatic experience. Prolonged exposure therapy is suitable for this client since its goal is to increase the emotional processing of the traumatic event so that memories or situations no longer lead to anxious arousal to trauma or escape and avoidance behaviors (Beidel et al., 2019).

Research question

Is Prolonged exposure therapy effective in treating military personnel with PTSD?

References

Beidel, D. C., Neer, S. M., Bowers, C. A., Newins, A. R., Tuerk, P. W., Cunningham, C. A., Mooney, S. R., Hauck, H. N., & Jett, M. (2019). Trauma Management Therapy and Prolonged Exposure Therapy for PTSD in an active duty sample: Design and Methodology of a randomized clinical trial. Contemporary clinical trials communications, p. 17, 100491. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.conctc.2019.100491

Foa, E. B., McLean, C. P., Zang, Y., Rosenfield, D., Yadin, E., Yarvis, J. S., … & Strong Star Consortium. (2018). Effect of prolonged exposure therapy delivered over 2 weeks vs. 8 weeks vs. present-centered therapy on PTSD symptom severity in military personnel: A randomized clinical trial. Jama, 319(4), 354-364. https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2017.21242

Miao, X. R., Chen, Q. B., Wei, K., Tao, K. M., & Lu, Z. J. (2018). Posttraumatic stress disorder: from diagnosis to prevention. Military Medical Research, 5(1), 32. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40779-018-0179-0

Schrader, C., & Ross, A. (2021). A Review of PTSD and Current Treatment Strategies. Missouri Medicine, 118(6), 546–551.

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To Prepare

• Review the Final Project Worksheet Part 1 media program found in the Learning Resources for this week
• Review the Final Project Case Studies found in the Learning Resources for this week and choose one of the four case studies to use for your Final Project. School counselors should choose Case 1 or 2.
• Consider the case study and identify your client and the mental health issue you will focus on
• Choose one intervention that you would like to further investigate for possible use with the client
• Review the Part 1 Final Project found in the Learning Resources and use this template for this Part 1 Assignment.

Final Project Assignment

Complete Part 1 of the Final Project.

Required Readings

• Walden University Library. (n.d.). How to save PDFsLinks to an external site.. https://academicguides.waldenu.edu/library/pdfhelp/saving
• Document: Final Project Case StudiesDownload Final Project Case Studies
• Document: Part 1 Final Project

• Download Part 1 Final Project

Required Media

• Walden University, LLC. (Producer). (2017c). Final project worksheet part 1 [Audio file]. Baltimore, MD: Author.
  Note: The approximate length of this media piece is 10 minutes.
  In this recorded audio, Dr. Laura Haddock describes the portion of the Final Project due this week, with a review of the remaining components and corresponding due dates.

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