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Develop effective documentation skills for group therapy sessions *

Develop diagnoses for clients receiving group psychotherapy *

Evaluate the efficacy of cognitive behavioral therapy for groups *

Analyze legal and ethical implications of counseling clients with psychiatric disorders *

* The Assignment related to this Learning Objective is introduced this week and submitted in Week 10.

Select two clients you observed or counseled this week during a group therapy session. Note: The two clients you select must have attended the same group session.

Then, in your Practicum Journal, address the following:

Using the Group Therapy Progress Note in this week’s Learning Resources, document the group session.

Describe each client (without violating HIPAA regulations), and identify any pertinent history or medical information, including prescribed medications.

Using the DSM-5, explain and justify your diagnosis for each client.

Explain whether cognitive behavioral therapy would be effective with this group. Include expected outcomes based on this therapeutic approach.

Explain any legal and/or ethical implications related to counseling each client.

Support your approach with evidence-based literature.

Overview: All students will read the following HPE case study related to discerning between research and non-research during program implementation. There are many blurred lines between research and evaluation, so careful consideration of research and non-research activity is essential to ensure ethical practices are carried out at the onset of the program implementation and evaluation process.

Case Study: The CDC funded 5 health departments to develop programs to provide HIV prevention and referral services to HIV-infected persons. The project objectives included increasing the proportion of HIV-infected persons who know their HIV serostatus as early as possible after infection, providing HIV prevention services to infected persons to reduce the risk of transmission to others, and assisting HIV-infected persons in accessing medical and other needed services. Grantees were encouraged to tailor their interventions to local circumstances, and the funding supported local evaluations of the effectiveness of the interventions in each site.

The grantees provided an array of services to a mix of target populations based on their location. The CDC’s perspective was that the primary intent of the program was to provide services targeted to local community needs, and the primary intent of the evaluations was to improve those services. Thus, the project was deemed to represent non-research by the CDC. However, it was anticipated that, as a secondary benefit, the projects also would provide information—or lessons learned—that might be useful elsewhere.

Although the CDC did not consider the evaluation component of the program to constitute research, some participating health departments differed in this assessment and sought institutional review board (IRB) oversight. At sites where local IRB review was invoked, implementation was delayed up to 1 year. Confusion over whether the program constituted human subjects research resulted in the loss of formative pilot data at 1 site when a local IRB determined that appropriate approvals were not in place. Also read: HIV Rates in Black Men

Assignment: After reading the case study, write a discussion that addresses the following:

· What are the potential ethical considerations in this scenario? What are the main risks for participants in the program?

· Explain the unintended consequences that may occur from the participants’ perspective if the evaluation of the program is deemed research and informed consent is obtained? How might this change impact the participants’ behaviors, attitudes, and/or trust in the program?

· What are the unintended consequences of labeling this evaluation as non-research? How might this impact the program or future programming?

· Which entity was correct in their assessment of the evaluation’s research status (i.e. was this research or non-research)?

Discussion

Adversity and Depression Treatment Disparities

Discussion related to early life adversity’s impact on the development of depression in later life. Student will research methods to improve treatment disparities among children and young adults who experience early adversity. 

Read Stern, K. R. & Thayer, Z. M. (2019). Adversity in childhood and young adulthood predicts young adult depression. This is Module 8.

Research on your own to uncover methods to improve statistics found in the attached literature. Post for your peers what you find that could be useful to close the gap and offer potential improvement in the treatment disparity of adversity and its impact on development of depression.

For the Discussion (Include the corresponding number below as you respond in your initial post):

1. What did you take from the literature attached to the discussion board?

2. What literature did you find on your own that might be helpful for this population?

3. What resources and tools would you need to help implement helpful interventions in the primary care setting?

 A 52-year-old woman complains that she has been missing days of work almost every week. She states she is neglecting her family, and she is sleeping during the day but cannot sleep at night. She denies other health problems, medication, or environmental allergies. 

• From the information provided, list your differential diagnoses in the order of “most likely” to “possible but unlikely.”

• What are common book-tax differences relating to accounting for capital gains and losses? Do these differences create favorable or unfavorable book-to-tax adjustments
• Describe the annualized income method for determining a corporation’s required estimated tax payments. What advantages does this method have over other methods?  

Note: Please post what you view as the appropriate responses to the above prompts. Your initial post should be 250-300 words. Please provide response with a clear, well-formulated thesis; sentence structure, grammar, punctuation, and spelling count. Support ALL posts with appropriate rationale and citations from readings; document sources using APA format.