Engagement strategies
Assignment #1: Engagement Strategy (20% of final grade)
This assignment is designed for you to apply culturally appropriate strategies to engage and build rapport with a challenging client case. Select one of the vignettes and then consider how you (whom the client is meeting for the very first time) will develop an engagement strategy. Support your engagement strategy with the assigned reading material in the syllabus.
When reading the vignette, think about the unique strengths and challenges the client presents and how you can use that knowledge to build rapport. Consider the cultural, spiritual, religious, filial, and intersectionality identities and characteristics that the client in the vignette displays, and apply your reading to understand the unique considerations for the case. The strategy should focus on engagement not interventions.
Please answer the following questions in your engagement strategies: 1. What are the client’s strengths? 2. What are the major obstacle(s) to the client’s engagement in the intervention process? 3. What is your clinical countertransference in working with this client? Please use the first person tense for this section. 4. What does the literature/research say about engagement for a client like this? 5. Considering all your answers above, what are some specific things you will consider and do to give the client the best chance to engage in the treatment process, ?
Academic Paper Guidelines Select one of the vignettes. The paper should be 4-6 pages in length (not counting the title page or reference list), double-spaced, with 1-inch margins on all sides, with 12 point Times New Roman font. Insert page numbers with the title page. Use subheadings (in bold font) to organize your paper. See APA Manual p. 62 for levels of headings. Do not restate the vignette or the questions in your paper, though you can identify the client as a heading, if desired. Throughout the paper, please provide conceptual and empirical evidence to support your intervention, referencing a minimum of 4 scholarly works (at least 1 of those must be found outside of the 544 syllabus). The references found outsid the syllabus should be bolded on the reference page. Use editorial referencing styles as specified in the APA Publication Manual 6th Edition
