LIB-342: ONLINE OBSESSIONS: DETERMINING AND DEALING WITH DIGITAL DEPENDENCY
Final Project
You are required to complete a final project for this course. For the final project imagine that you are a
new counselor at the college’s student center, you will provide an assessment and a treatment plan for
someone presenting with an electronic addiction. You will prepare a 8-10 page paper about a new client
you are seeing that includes answers to the following questions and topics.
- What is the presenting electronic addiction problem? Provide a brief statement regarding why this
student has come in today. What motivated this client to get help? - What is the electronic addiction? Describe any short and/or long term risks of this addiction.
Relate this information specifically to this client’s situation. - What is/was the progression of use of this addiction? (Social issues?)
- What changed to cause your client to suddenly seek treatment?
- Assessment. (Identify a valid and reliable tool that you believe can be effective to assess this
client’s situation; explain why you feel this tool would be appropriate for your client.) - What is this client’s biological/medical background?
- Are there any psychological issues?
- What is this client’s social background?
- What are some of this client’s strengths and challenges in relationship to this addiction?
- What intervention will you suggest to help with this client’s electronic addiction?
- Create an evidence-based treatment plan which would include:
a. Goals
b. Objectives
c. Action Plan
d. Intervention
e. Rationale/justification for your treatment plan
f. Challenges, and how to deal with them - Reference list (Do not include Wikipedia as a scholarly/reliable resource). You should include at
least 5 scholarly references.
If you have questions about the requirements of the project, be sure to discuss them with your mentor
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