Counseling Children

How to Do a Case Plan based on a given case example

Guideline: For this assignment, there is no wrong response. Read each case description and answer to below questions. Try to be imaginative and apply the concepts you learned through textbook reading and lecture material. As you are taking this as online, you have an advantage of watching how other students’ class presentations related to cases. Your response will be graded by the quality of your understanding of the course material.

1. What they have missed during “sensitive periods” of development, early childhood? Identify critical deficiencies that the child might have missed.

Assess the child across the SPECS of normal development.

SPECS—Social, Physical, Emotional, Cognitive, and Sexual Development

1. What would be core symptoms and issues based on the deficiencies you have identified in 1) responses? Refer to Behavioral impact of maltreatment, textbook, and lecture materials.

1. What questions do you have in order to develop interventions—care and counseling plan? Describe the first interview or meeting.

1. Based on those deficiencies, describe your care plan. What would you do to help the child? How would you intervene the issues? How long do you think it will take for any progress to be made? As time goes, how the symptoms and issues will progress?

*Care/counseling plan components

• Diagnosis

• Symptoms

• Initial

• Middle

• Last stage

• Progress

• What they may have missed during “sensitive periods” of development, early childhood.

In your face: sparkling eyes, smiling face, tender voice, tender touch (cuddling, stroking), synchronized care (Attuned care)

What Synchronized care means? —mother or other primary care taker(s) attunes to the need of a baby, not the other way around, meaning a baby meets the mother’s unmet needs. Example, Mother feeds the baby when the baby is hungry, not when the mother feels hungry. Mother’s providing a repeated, patterned physical nurturing is critical and needed for a baby to develop a well regulated and responsive stress response system.