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Develop effective documentation skills to examine group therapy sessions with children and adolescents
Develop diagnoses for child and adolescent clients receiving group psychotherapy
Analyze legal and ethical implications of counseling child and adolescent clients with psychiatric disorders
Select two clients you observed or counseled this week during a group therapy session for children and adolescents. Note: The two clients you select must have attended the same group session. If you select the same group you selected for the Week 8 or Week 9 Journal Entries, you must select different clients.

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Then, address in your Practicum Journal 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 any legal and/or ethical implications related to counseling each client.
Support your approach with evidence-based literature.

MODEL ANSWER

Group Therapy Progress Note

Client: _________MX_________________________________________ Date: _29/10/2019__________ Group name: __________________child____________________________ Minutes: __30______ Group session # _10_____ Meeting attended is #:__9____ for this client. Number present in group _7____ of _10____ scheduled Start time: __11.30 am______ End time: _12.00 am_______

Assessment of client

1. Participation level: ❑ Active/eager ❑ Variable ❑ only responsive ❑ Minimal ❑ Withdrawn

2. Participation quality: ❑ Expected ❑ Supportive ❑ sharing ❑ Attentive ❑ Intrusive ❑ monopolizing ❑ Resistant ❑ other: _____________________________________

 3. Mood: ❑ Normal ❑ Anxious ❑ Depressed ❑ Angry ❑ Euphoric ❑ Other: _______________

4. Affect: ❑ Normal ❑ Intense ❑ Blunted ❑ Inappropriate ❑ Labile ❑ Other: _______________

 5. Mental status: ❑ Normal ❑ Lack awareness ❑ Memory problems ❑ Disoriented ❑ Confused ❑ Disorganized ❑ Vigilant ❑ Delusions ❑ Hallucinations ❑ Other:__________________

6. Suicide/violence risk: ❑ Almost none ❑ Ideation ❑ Threat ❑ Rehearsal ❑ Gesture ❑ Attempt

7. Change in stressors: ❑ less severe/fewer ❑ Different stressors ❑ More/more severe ❑ Chronic

 8. Change in coping ability/skills: ❑ No change ❑ Improved ❑ Less able ❑ Much less able

9. Change in symptoms: ❑ same ❑ Less severe ❑ Resolved ❑ More severe ❑ Much worse

10. Other observations/evaluations:  the child is experiencing a social phobia disorder, a condition that is characterized by weight loss due to loss of appetite, vomiting and use of laxatives.

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 In-session procedures: __the child is receiving mental treatment after an evaluation was conducted by a primary health psychologist.

Homework:

1._psychotherapy-the child will undergo a psychotherapy evaluation-a talk therapy where mental health concerns are addressed.

2. _Medication- the health psychotherapist will afterwards recommend particular medications like antidepressants to treat the child’s mental condition.

3. During the evaluation process, the child healthcare provider will learn more about the child’s condition, feelings, behaviors, moods and thoughts.

 Other Comments: the child greatly benefited from the help provided by the parents and the family.  However, it is important for the child’s mental health provider to advice the parents on the best was to change the way they interact with their child as well as the manner in which they can handle the unexpected behavior (Choate et al., 2015).

Signatures: DDJ-primary healthcare provider