For the purposes of this assignment, I will refer to my patient as Clark, which is not his real name. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPPA) requires that personally identifiable information about a patient must be redacted or changed to protect the privacy rights of clients.Clark is a sixteen year old male of African American decent. He has been in foster care since the age of eight. He first came to the attention of the child protective authorities due to the severe nature of the corporal abuse he and his sibling received at the hands of their biological mother.
Clark 's case file documents states that he was severely physically and emotionally abused on many different occasions while he was still very young. …show more content…
The purpose of our particular orientation is to provide a holistic approach to the multi-faceted needs of our client base. This approach of the differing levels of mental health staff is put into place to hopefully be a catalyst toward the change needed to help improve Clark 's level of biopsychosocial functioning. These techniques were prescribed based on several factors including: 1.the therapeutic need of the patient, 2. the theoretical orientation of the larger agency organization, 3. and the clinical team’s best ability to approximate the services Clark requires while in our …show more content…
There are many other theories more well suited to just his SUD. However, they do not get to the underlying grief and traumatization which may the causation of the self-medication in the first place. According to Cohen, Deblinger, and Mannarino (2004) Evidence is growing that trauma-focused cognitive-behavioral therapy (TF-CBT) is an efficacious treatment modality for sexually abused children, including those who have experienced multiple other traumatic event (p.1202). Exposure to childhood trauma has been shown to be associated with a broad range of future psychopathologies, not limited to but including SUD’s. Left untreated, many patients seek to ‘self-medicate’ to gain relief from the presenting symptoms. According to Leenarts, Diehle, Doreleijers, Jansma, and Lindauer (2013), 27 studies which sought to evaluate the psychotherapeutic treatments which used trauma-focused cognitive, behavioral or cognitive-behavioral technique. The results of this review suggest that TF-CBT was the best-supported treatment for children following childhood maltreatment. (p.
Clark 's case file documents states that he was severely physically and emotionally abused on many different occasions while he was still very young. …show more content…
The purpose of our particular orientation is to provide a holistic approach to the multi-faceted needs of our client base. This approach of the differing levels of mental health staff is put into place to hopefully be a catalyst toward the change needed to help improve Clark 's level of biopsychosocial functioning. These techniques were prescribed based on several factors including: 1.the therapeutic need of the patient, 2. the theoretical orientation of the larger agency organization, 3. and the clinical team’s best ability to approximate the services Clark requires while in our …show more content…
There are many other theories more well suited to just his SUD. However, they do not get to the underlying grief and traumatization which may the causation of the self-medication in the first place. According to Cohen, Deblinger, and Mannarino (2004) Evidence is growing that trauma-focused cognitive-behavioral therapy (TF-CBT) is an efficacious treatment modality for sexually abused children, including those who have experienced multiple other traumatic event (p.1202). Exposure to childhood trauma has been shown to be associated with a broad range of future psychopathologies, not limited to but including SUD’s. Left untreated, many patients seek to ‘self-medicate’ to gain relief from the presenting symptoms. According to Leenarts, Diehle, Doreleijers, Jansma, and Lindauer (2013), 27 studies which sought to evaluate the psychotherapeutic treatments which used trauma-focused cognitive, behavioral or cognitive-behavioral technique. The results of this review suggest that TF-CBT was the best-supported treatment for children following childhood maltreatment. (p.