The movie to watch is called Monster on Netflix.
The psychosocial assessment will include the following areas of content: develop a psychosocial assessment and treatment plan based on one of the movie’s main characters (Steve Harmon). The client Steve Harmon is seeking therapy from a community mental health agency, after displaying systems of PTSD and attempting to cope with the recent life events.
1. Presenting problem
2. Client background (Provide a coherent picture of the client using a biopsychosocial-spiritual narrative, including diversity factors; provide factual information in this section; you will formulate professional opinions in the assessment section below)
3. Client strengths
4. Client concerns, challenges, and needs
5. Genogram (You may include this under client background, in reference to family background)
6. Ecomap (Refer to your ecomap and genogram in your written descriiptions)
7. Assessment (Provide your professional assessment of the nature and causes of the client’s challenges, which will be used as the basis of your treatment plan, below. Link case information with knowledge from 3 or 4 scholarly readings (journal articles and, or textbooks) related to the client’s diversity, social, economic, and environmental justice issues, and presenting problem [could apply systems theory, sociocultural theory, developmental theory, cognitive-behavioral theory, etc.; if using instruments to assess client or evaluate outcomes, provide citations for those measures]
8. Evidence-based treatment plan – client goals [at least 3] and objectives, plans for intervention (worker and client responsibilities; using the format covered in class). Also, describe how you will monitor and evaluate the client’s progress.
9. Ethical issue – Identify at least one ethical issue that might arise in working with this particular client and cite the ethical standards from the NASW Code of Ethics that may apply in dealing with this ethical issue. Describe how you would resolve the ethical issue.
