Description
Simmons is married to Brian Simmons for the last 10 years. Brittany is 35 years olds, she and her husband have two children together 1 girl Toya Simmons (12 years old ), and 1 son Joe Simmons (8 years old). Brian is a janitor for Public School in Milwaukee, WI and Brittany doesn’t work due to being a drug addict. Brian kicks his addict wife, Brittany out of their home, causing him to have a strained relationship with their daughter, Toya Simmons who wants to join the church choir. Fearing that Toya will turn to drugs like her mother, Brian refuses until a family member convinces him otherwise, encouraging him to also fix his relationship with Brittany. In 2019, Brittany is now clean and sober after going into rehab, reconciles with her husband Brian. Brittany enrolled in While in rehab, Brittany enrolled in Comprehensive Community Services (CCS) to maintain her sobriety once release from the program. CCS is a voluntary Medicaid program. It is a recovery-focused, integrated behavioral health program for adults with severe mental illness and/or substance use disorders.
Background information about Case Study:
Prior to getting on drugs, Brittany worked as a Register Nurse, she graduated from UW-Madison with a 3.8 gpa. Brittany grew up seeing her father Michael doing drugs, cocaine. Michael died in 2007 from an overdose. Brittany stated that she was close with her father, but would go missing days at a time. Brittany’s parents were married, mother name Mariah, who worked in a factory. Brittany is the only child. Brittany was not as close to her mother because her mother worked a lot of hours to support the family, while her father stayed home. Brittany described her father as a “stay-at-home father.”
DSM Dx: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), and Substance-Related Disorder
Evidence-Based Practice Paper
You will apply evidence-based research and practice concepts learned throughout the course to a case at your internship. The professor is available to meet with you at any point to support this process.
Outline of Case Study: Introduction
Describe your agency
Describe the client’s characteristics Client history
Reason for referral Culture/religion
Assessment
DSM-5 (APA, 2013) Diagnosis
Assessments used for diagnosis (e.g., Beck’s Depression Inventory, ADIS, Connor’s, etc.). Rationale for diagnosis (citing the DSM-5- APA, 2013)
Prognosis and relapse prevention
Evidence-Based Practices
Logic, scientific inquiry, culturally-informed practices, and ethical approaches for evaluation. Use of evidence-based practice and the processes
Discern and translate quality evidence-based research
Describe of how you will evaluate the impact of your chosen intervention/s on client change (your pre-and post- assessment data)
Describe how you will use qualitative data (client feedback) to inform your conclusions. Discuss your process for locating quality research to inform your practice decisions. Life-long learning
Contributions to the research base
Interventions SMART Goals
Duration of Intervention
Interventions of choice Conclusion
Critically examine and summarize background, assessment, diagnosis, evidence-based practices, interventions, and evaluation.
Details by Section
Introduction: (approximately 1-2 pages)
This section describes the agency and the client.
Describe your agency. Inform the reader where you work, and what type of clients the agency serves. Explain the services offered/used with clients.
Provide a description of the client that includes standard characteristics such as age, sex, ethnicity, and family composition.
Provide the client’s history, especially information on earlier life history. Include the details ordinarily incorporated in a clinical case study.
Describe the reason for seeking treatment and presenting concerns or symptoms.
Discuss the client’s culture, how this may be affecting his/her development, and the considerations you need to make to be culturally competent (you should include at least one reference about cultural competence/humility, as relevant to this client).
Assessment: (Approximately 2 pages)
In this section, you will diagnose your client. You will use the DSM-5 (APA, 2013) to apply diagnostic criteria about your client to the client’s diagnosis to demonstrate that the client meets the criteria of that diagnosis.
Please also explain the assessments that were or will be used for diagnosis and why you chose them (e.g., Beck’s Depression Inventory, ADIS, Connor’s, etc.).
End this section with your client’s prognosis. Describe the client’s potential for recovery and relapse prevention and how you reached that conclusion.
Evidence-based practices: (Approximately 4-5 pages)
In this section, explicitly incorporate principles of logic (your decision-making process), scientific inquiry (how you located and examined the available research), and culturally informed (account for diversity, differences, and cultural humility), ethical approaches, and evaluation data (use NASW Code of Ethics, 2017) to appraise clinical practice and program outcomes.
As you complete this section, include information about how you will use the process of evidence-based practice to translate research findings into effective practice.
In this section, include three or more citations/peer-reviewed articles supporting your practice interventions from BOTH quantitative and qualitative research methods determining your evaluation of clinical practice and program outcomes (how your program outcomes were met or not met by your clinical outcome).
Discern and translate quality evidence-based research for application to the process of decision-making in practice and program contexts. Discuss your process for locating quality research including quantitative and qualitative methods and how you used that evidence to inform your practice decisions. You may need to use professional journals in multiple fields. For example, if your case study is about a student who is a client in a school setting, your quantitative and qualitative research articles can derive from both mental health journals as well as education. If you’re working with an older adult in a geriatric setting, your research should involve health care and mental health.
Life-long learning- Discuss what steps you will take to remain current with the research and practices as it pertains to your client population (e.g., if you’re working with a child with an anxiety disorder, then describe how you will remain current with research and practice for childhood anxiety disorders).
Contributions to the research base- how can you contribute your findings to the existing knowledge base while maintaining confidentiality. For example, you could share at an in-service or a professional conference the evidence-based process you took applying research to practice and the evaluation practice of assessing effectiveness of interventions.
Intervention(s): (Approximately 2 pages)
In this section, you will use informed decision making identified in the evidence-based practice section to identify and justify your methods of intervention with the client.
Determine a minimum of two goals and describe the objectives for each goal. Use S.M.A.R.T goals and objectives.
Decide on whether your intervention will be short or long term and give a rationale.
Using at least two or more peer-reviewed research articles, describe the interventions you would use, and how you believe this will help the client change and function more effectively. Be explicit about how your interventions are grounded in evidence, and how the specific approach/es selected are expected to facilitate treatment goal achievement.
Conclusion: (Approximately 1-2 pages)
Include a strong conclusion that reflects on your critical examination of your client and what outcomes you anticipate given their background, your assessment, the diagnosis, evidence-based practices, and interventions.
Please disguise clinical information on the case study as well as within your group. Use a single initial, “Mr./Ms. Smith,” or simple first names for children. If you do not have access to certain information or a current case, please discuss this with the professor within the first week of the term.

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Student’s name
Institutional affiliation
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Introduction
Comprehensive Community Services (CCS) is a very good program that offers
rehabilitative services to former or current addicts. The CCS program is an entirely voluntary
program that deals with maintenance of sobriety in its clients by utilizing a more psychosocial
rehabilitative Medicaid Program that caters to people of Milwaukee County where our current
client Mrs. Simmons and her family is from. The CSS program basis its facilities into assisting
individuals who struggle with mental health or different forms of substance abuse, and make sure
that they do not relapse into old habits.
The application procedure to join the program is quite simple, and only those who qualify
and meet the requirements of the program are then admitted into the program. The participants,
like our prospective client Mrs. Simmons will work with an able team of Care coordinators who
are going to personalize a recovery plan for her, and others like her who are also our clients. The
clients have the discretion of choosing from a wide array of treatment plans and seeing what
works for them and what does not, with the guidance of the care coordinators. According to the
CCS guidelines, the program is meant to; improve health, promote wellness, achieve personal
goals, and enhance overall quality of life. The CSS also offers different rehabilitative services
such as support groups, nutrition and dietetics, exercise, and medication. The program involves a
more independent approach where the coordinators assist the client to discover their own
potential in a more supervisory capacity, be it self-care or family care and substance abuse
recovery assistance.
Our new client to the program is Mrs. Simmons. Mrs. Simmons, is 35 years old, married
to Mr. Simmons. They have two children together, Toya who is 12 years old and Joe who is 8
years old. Brian, the husband is a janitor for a Public School in Milwaukee. Mrs. Simmons has
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been struggling with cocaine abuse, which has really affected her family. Brian is not please with
that behavior and has Mrs. Simmons move out of the house. Mrs. Simmons after years of
struggling with cocaine abuse, decides to become clean and go to rehab. Mrs. Simmons joined
CCS to assist her maintain her sobriety and to avoid any chances of her relapsing. She is afraid
that if she does not stick to a program she will find herself going back to using cocaine and ruin
her family dynamic.
Mrs. Simmons grew up in a household where the father was a drug addict. The father
passed because of overdose on cocaine and that really affected Mrs. Simmons. Drug addiction
sometimes manifests culturally and children can easily pick those traits from their parents.
According to clinician Gainsbury, culture sometimes has a very huge influence and impact on
the possibilities of an individual using drugs and therefore developing substance abuse disorders
(Gainsbury, 2016). She also believes that cultural competence is very vital in clinicians to
facilitate their ability to create a conducive and comfortable environment for their clients for the
best outcome (Gainsbury, 2016). In Mrs. Simmons case, it is important to track how her
addiction, and why it started, and as we have seen is her father was also a substance abuser,
which might have been an influence on her because of the trauma that she had to go through
growing up, which influenced her take on cocaine.
Assessment
Diagnosis criteria
A. A pattern of amphetamine-type substance, cocaine, or other stimulant use leading to
clinically significant impairment or distress, as manifested by at least two of the following,
occurring within a 12-month period:
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1. The stimulant is often taken in larger amounts or over a longer period than was intended.
2. There is a persistent desire or unsuccessful efforts to cut down or control stimulant use.
3. A great deal of time is spent in activities necessary to obtain the stimulant, use the
stimulant, or recover from its effects.
4. Craving, or a strong desire or urge to use the stimulant.
5. Recurrent stimulant use resulting in a failure to fulfill major role obligations at work,
school, or home.
6. Continued stimulant use despite having persistent or recurrent social or interpersonal problems
caused or exacerbated by the effects of the stimulant.
7. Important social, occupational, or recreational activities are given up or reduced because of
stimulant use.
8. Recurrent stimulant use in situations in which it is physically hazardous.
9. Stimulant use is continued despite knowledge of having a persistent or recurrent
physical or psychological problem that is likely to have been caused or exacerbated
by the stimulant.
10. Tolerance, as defined by either of the following:
a. A need for markedly increased amounts of the stimulant to achieve intoxication
or desired effect.
b. A markedly diminished effect with continued use of the same amount of the
stimulant.
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