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Discuss the similarities and differences between the Oklahoma City Bombing and 9/11 terrorist attacks. Also, examine some of the lessons that you feel were learned from the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Finally, share your thoughts on how the lessons learned can be used in the future. This is a chance for you to combine your personal thoughts with the concepts that are covered in this unit.
The completed assignment must be a minimum of three double-spaced pages in length, not including the title page and reference page. The use of outside sources to support your writing may be helpful, but is not required for this assignment. All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced using APA formatting; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations.
En 09-Meredith Case Study
Meredith is a 24-year-old female who comes to the community counseling office where you work as a newly hired mental health counselor. On her intake form, which she filled out earlier while waiting for the appointment, she provides the following information, which is based on her answers to the questions on this form.
Birthdate: 1/22/1980
Home: Whiting, MA
Race: Caucasian
Current job: Assistant to the activities director at a nursing home
Parents: Married, both living, Leek, MA
Father: Works full-time as a business manager
Mother: Works part-time as an office clerk
Parents’ histories: Father – heavy use of alcohol, two heart attacks; mother – use of prescription opiates for back pain.
Siblings: Meghan, 22, who is employed full-time in the publishing industry in New York City; Molly, 20, engaged to be married, still in college; Sarah, 18 (Meredith reported during her first session that this sister is “acting weird, washing her hair constantly, scared to go outside, almost seems afraid of everyone and thinks everyone is talking about her – she refuses to go to high school”), and Brian,12, who lives at home.
Medical history: Migraines? [she writes a question mark after migraines], menstrual problems [she writes in “serious cramps”]
Mental health history of patient: None
Substance use history of patient: First use of alcohol during first year of college; drinks during celebrations and weekend parties, uses alcohol to help with sleep. Medications: None, “but I think I need sleep medication” [client’s words]
Sexual History: [client left questions related to sexual activity blank]
Extended family information: Uncles on Father’s side are two “alcoholics?” [she writes the question mark after the term alcoholics]; father’s sister was hospitalized for a mental disorder for two years; “maternal grandmother – early death, question of alcohol use.
What prompted you to make this appointment? Meredith writes: “can’t sleep, eat, and my work is suffering because I can’t think…. I am stressed out…feeling out of control.”
1. Based on what the clinician has learned during the intake, what are some of the symptoms a clinician should look for, or ask about, when working with this client during the initial sessions? Explain each symptom.
2. What other historical information might a counselor want to ask about?
3. What might a clinician want to know about Meredith’s alcohol use and why?
4. What might a clinician want to know about her eating, sleeping, and stress, and why?
5. What conditions would the clinician want to explore when working with this client? Explain why.
6. If Meredith reported that her friends have said that she is “crazy, talking too fast, hyperactive, and unable to pay attention,” what diagnoses would you also explore?
7. How would the clinician determine if Meredith was experiencing a co-occurring disorder or a single diagnosis?
8. Meredith explains in a future appointment that she is in love with Andy, but is scared that her parents will not like this person. She states that she feels stressed out about someone finding out how much she loves this person. It is noticeable that Meredith is not using pronouns. What other issues might a counselor want to explore? How does this interact with the diagnosis, or does it?
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In Week 6, you developed a storyboard that could be used to create a media channel / document for the health risk related to your health communication campaign. How does a health educator go from developing a storyboard to capturing a media channel / document for a health communication campaign?
Not surprisingly, within the field of health education, budgets for certain heath programs do not account for extensive use of or development of media. Within the subset of health communication campaigns, health risk messages convey a health risk based on certain health behaviors. Nevertheless, by understanding how to create brief health risk messages, you can develop brief health risk videos without incurring large costs. The media channel / document may also have the added benefit of reaching large segments of the population. When developing your media channel / document, you must convey a health risk associated with a behavior and offer resources to gain further information on the risk.
For this Discussion, review the storyboard that you developed in Week 6. Reflect on what considerations you should keep in mind when creating a media channel / document based on a storyboard for a health risk related to your health communication campaign.
Post and upload the media channel / document, based on the storyboard that you developed in Week 6. The following formats can be used to create your media channel / document:
1) Social network platform (Facebook page or twitter account)
2) Video – 2 minutes (See Kaltura Media Uploader instructions)
3) Audio PSA – 2 minutes (See Kaltura Media Uploader instructions)
4) PowerPoint presentation – voice over OR script in notes section
5) Interactive skill-based worksheet (assess and/improve current behavior or attitudes)
6) Educational series of brochures / materials
Keep in mind that you must convey a health risk associated with a health behavior that is related to your health topic of your health communication campaign.
My choice of health communication campaign would be the prevention campaign against HIV/AIDS, through the mass media. The campaign will help people have an increase in knowledge about sex, change of sexual behaviors, improve in risk perception, as well as criticism of hypothetically risky social norms. The campaign aims to utilize television, radio, as well as other ideally means a fragment of the multi-level exertions.
Basil, M., & Witte, K. (2012). Health risk messages design using the Extended Parallel Process Model. In H. Cho (Ed.), Health communication message design: Theory and practice (pp. 41–58). Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications.
(Chapter 3 in the course text)
Conrath Doak, C., Doak, L.G, & Root, J.H. (1996) Assessing suitability of materials. In Teaching Patients with Low Literacy Skills (2nd ed.) (pp. 41 – 60). Retrieved from
https://cdn1.sph.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/si…
Hammond, D. (2011). Health warning messages on tobacco products: A review.
Tobacco Control, 20(5), 327–337.