• Jen & Mike Recording Assessment-20220225_115113-Meeting Recording.

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To prepare for this assignment, watch this video example of a psychosocial
assessment. This is a role play rather than an actual client interaction. After viewing
the video, you will write an assessment of the identified client. Your written
assessment should include the following:

Section One – Client Identifying Information/Demographics:

• Date of the interview: 4/6/2023
• Name: Jennifer McArdle
• Address: 1409 Devine St, Columbia SC 29201 Originally from Maryland
• Age: 27
• Gender: Female (from appearance, they did not disclose what they identify as)
• Ethnicity: White (from appearance)
• Race: White (from appearance)
• marital status: Newly Divorced
• referral source: co worker

Section Two: Background

Family composition and background, educational background, employment and
economic status, religious/spiritual involvement, physical functioning, health conditions,
and medical background, psychological functioning, and background, social,
community, and recreational activities, basic life necessities, legal concerns, other
environmental or psychosocial factors

- Divorced
- Moved to SC from Maryland to start over
- -didn’t know anyone
- - psych degree
- Worked at Inpatient facility with people who are dialoged with mental illness
- She was burnt out from all the crisis
- Clients attempted and committed suicide she had to respond to
- 6-8 week therapy during divorce
 - Got married right after high school
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Section Three: Current Situation

Including physical functioning and health practices; intellectual, spiritual, and emotional
functioning; current significant relationships, including spouse, significant others,
friends, extended family, support systems; problem-solving capacity; financial situation;
legal involvements; housing and transportation; use of community services.
- hasn’t been going great here
- Never been away from family and friends
- Hard to make friends
- People in classes can't relate to her because of commonality
- Feels isolated
- No roommate
- 1 bedroom NE cola
- Alimony (money for 2 years)
- Has savings
- Work study
- Loans
- Military neighbors
- Personal time
- Healthy eating
- Farmers market for fruit and veggies
- Sitting around apt after class
- Used to like to read and watch tv shows but lose interest and get distracted
- Active in church back home
- Catholic churches lack in cola so doesn’t go to church bc it is too far
- Losing weight because of appetite
- Self-consciousness about what she looks life
- Avids social situations because of how she looks
- Stress eating during divorce
- Sleeping isn’t great can't stay asleep or get back to sleep when woken up
- Busy with internship
- Bailed on 3 group meets because she doesn’t want to be social
- Doesn’t want social interactions
Section Four: Client Strengths, Capacities, and Resources:
What are the client's strengths? Think of how the person has coped to date with the
problem. Do they have social, intellectual, physical, emotional, etc. resources?
 - She is taking steps to eat healthily and going to the farmers market for fruits and
vegetables.
- Reaching out for help in the form of therapy
- She hasn’t coped as well as one could hope but she has been through a lot
- She doesn’t have a strong support system as she doesn’t know many people
here.

Section Five – Impressions, Assessment, and Recommendations

Following completion of sections one and two of the assignment students will select one
of the change-oriented approaches covered in Chapter 13 of the text (task-centered,
crisis, cognitive restructuring, solution-focused, and case management). Based on the
selected change-oriented approach students will develop a proposed intervention plan
that includes a minimum of two (2) goals.

For each goal, list specific objectives that will get the client to that goal in a SMART goal
format. Remember, goals are more general, objectives are specific. Include outcome
criteria for each goal and (if appropriate) for each objective. Include completion dates
where appropriate. Specify how outcomes will be measured and by whom (i.e., how will
you know if the goals are met?). This section must be a minimum of two (2) pages.

Case management-

Goal options
1. Continue therapy
2. Join a group of grad students
3. Move out and closer to campus
4. Find a church or bible group

Case Management Approach

For the purpose of helping Jennifer, we will be taking a case management approach to help elicit

change. We have come up with two specific goals that I will be talking about below.
Initial Goal

The first goal to help the client, Jennifer, become her best self, would be to find a church

or bible study group. She mentioned she used to attend a Catholic church which helped her stay

connected with others and her religion.

SMART Goal

If this goal is achieved, it would help Jennifer get connected with other people who have

something in common with her, spirituality. It can also help her feel more connected to her God

or whoever she follows. This could look like your regular Sunday morning church time or just a

group that meets during the week and talks about their religion. The group can be made up of

however many people Jennifer wants, it truly does not matter.

To track the progress, this would require a biweekly meet up between Jennifer and I for

12 weeks. I would like to assess how she is feeling in social situations and see if she is ready to

integrate another change in her daily or weekly routine. I will track the progress based off of the

feedback I receive from the client.

I do believe this goal is achievable for Jennifer as she does not express sever social

anxiety. Nothing would stop her from meeting with a group of fellow believers if she saught

them. There may be obstacles like travel time or business of life but if Jennifer could find a time

that works for her, it would take a commitment and I am sure this would help improve her

overall being.

This is relevant to the goal of getting the client back to a position where she can function

normally in society. Helping her get more active in a certain community can show her she can
face social situations and may help bring her out of isolation, which can lead to a multitude of

other things.

It may take longer or shorter to achieve this goal, but I am thinking we could see a

change within 12 weeks.

Second Initial Goal

The second goal that would help Jennifer become her best self would be to move out of the

apartment she is in. She mentioned she lives in an apartment complex that is further away from

campus than most and it is full of mostly military families.

SMART Goal

If this goal is achieved, Jennifer could possibly meet more people, make new friends, and live

with other graduate students. She does not feel connected to the people who live in the complex

she is currently at because they are not in the same family dynamic or age range. There seems to

be no commonality. Moving somewhere closer to campus or even somewhere with a few

graduate students like her, Jennifer’s social life could improve drastically.

With this goal, the progress will be harder to track due to leases. Once Jennifer’s current lease is

coming to a close, we can meet once a week for 4 weeks to help find an affordable place to rent

that is hopefully closer to campus and has the potential to house other graduate students. Within

those four weeks, we could dedicate two weeks to searching online and two weeks to touring

places. Hopefully after two weeks of touring, she will be ready to sign a new lease.

Although this goal is a bit harder than the previous one, I do believe it is achievable. It just may

take time, depending on when Jennifer’s current lease is up and if her financial situation is stable

enough to make that change.

Moving to a place where Jennifer can feel connected to the people, she lives around is very much

so connected to helping Jennifer get back to where she can function normally in society. She can

have conversations with her neighbors about classes and professors. She can see people her age

and probably not with different family dynamics. She could be living the young adult/college life

with others.

Like I touched on earlier, I am not 100% sure how long this goal can take. It depends on when

Jennifer’s current lease is up. As she has made the decision to move and is looking, I anticipate

the process only taking 4 to 5 weeks.