Video critique

MH708

COUNSELING INTERVIEW CRITIQUE

 

1. MSE - Perform a mental status exam on the patient. You should be able to complete most of the exam from the video, but if there is a section that you cannot complete, you may write “unable to assess.” If there is more than one patient in the video, you may choose one of the patients.

2. Communication skills - Use the handout from the Module 2 lecture to identify communication skills used by the therapist and give examples. Were these appropriate to the timing and issues being discussed?

3. Reaction to the session – Discuss your personal feelings about the session. This is not a commentary on whether the therapist did a good job, but rather, how did this session make you feel.

4. Therapy framework - Please list the principles of the framework of the applicable theory and which the counselor addressed and which he/she did not. Give examples.

5. What could the counselor have done differently and why – Within the currently used therapy, what are some different counseling skills, responses, and interventions that you might have used instead and why? If you cannot think of anything that should have been done differently, then what would be the next step in the therapeutic process?

6. Progression - Did the therapist and patient work on any goals? Did they make progress towards those goals? Please explain why you feel it did or did not progress how you anticipated.

7. Applicability - How might this psychotherapy approach relate to your future work as a PMHNP? In other words, how (cite examples) will you be able to use and apply the knowledge and/or skills of this psychotherapy in your further work?