Identifying a Population and Clinical Area of Concern
For your three-part project for this course, you will design a program
evaluation plan that will examine the impact of a clinical intervention
(such as reality therapy, cognitive therapy, or narrative therapy) on a
clinical area of concern (such as depression) within a selected population
(such as children, adolescents, adults, older adults). Note: You will not
be implementing the program evaluation; you will only plan a hypothetical
program evaluation in this course.
For this discussion, identify the population and the clinical area of
concern that are addressed in the mental health counseling program for
which you will propose the program evaluation. The identified population
can be general or specific. You may want to identify a specific,
underserved group. Examples of populations include the general public,
children and adolescents, adults, women, men, veterans, police officers,
Hispanic males, Hispanic females, high school students, college students,
et cetera.
Once you have identified your population, identify the clinical area of
concern that your project will examine. You might select a certain clinical
area of concern that is a focus at your practicum or internship site.
Examples of clinical areas of concern include, but are not limited to,
substance abuse or dependency, depression, anxiety, eating disorders,
attention deficit/hyperactivity symptoms or disorders, or PTSD.
Note: You may change the population, clinical area of concern, and the
clinical intervention that you address in discussions throughout this
course; doing so, however, will require more work on your part, as you will
need to go back and research new literature.
In this post, address the following:
- What population does your hypothetical program serve? Specify age
range, gender, ethnicity, race, and so forth to demonstrate the unique
characteristics of the population served.
- What is the clinical area of concern (depression, anxiety, PTSD,
eating disorders, self-esteem, et cetera) that your program is designed to
address?
- Integrate, cite, and reference at least one peer-reviewed journal
article that describes how your hypothetical population has unique needs in
this area of clinical concern. For example, your hypothetical program could
be designed to assist female law enforcement officers who have developed
PTSD. In this case, you would find at least one article that describes the
particular issues that female officers might face in developing or getting
treatment for PTSD.
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