M4 Written Assignment – Beginning the Assessment of a Case of TraumaWhat is a Case Study?
A typical case study is a written narrative of some real-life event, situation, or experience centered in a problem or issue faced by a person, group of persons, organization, community, or even an entire society. Case studies are intended to test your understanding of important concepts and discover how to sharpen your intellectual skills of analysis, synthesis, evaluation, critical thinking, and application. Cases add realism to the course and allow you to apply the concepts in a controlled setting while increasing your involvement in the material.
For this Case Study assignment, you will begin by reviewing the case study of a three-year-old child named Tessie, whose mother has come in for an assessment of trauma. Please refer to the following four (4) readings for this module and the CANS assessment tool:
National Child Traumatic Stress Network. (n.d.) What is a trauma screen tool or process?
National Child Traumatic Stress Network. (n.d.) What is trauma-informed mental health assessment and why is it important?
Scheeringa, M. (n.d.). PTSD for Children 6 Years and Younger. Retrieved from PTSD: National Center for PTSD, US Department of Veteran Affairs.
Kisiel, C., Lyons, J.S., Blaustein, M., Fehrenbach, T., Griffin, G., Germain, J., Saxe, G., Ellis, H., Praed Foundation,