The purpose of Case Study 2 is to demonstrate increased knowledge/growth in your ability to identify behaviors and to communicate about treatment.

The purpose of Case Study 2 is to demonstrate increased knowledge/growth in your ability to identify behaviors and to communicate about treatment. You will demonstrate course-related knowledge in speaking more “deeply” about 1 specific client. Your case study will identify specific behaviors and how those behaviors are evaluated in light of a specific theory. You will also identify the ways that specific behaviors can be addressed in a manner consistent with theories of your field. (For research-oriented internships, you will identify specific variables being studied and provide rationale for the study.)

Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.

The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.

With explicit permission from your site supervisor, choose a case, circumstance, or situation at your site. If an appropriate case cannot be obtained from your site, then you may complete a case study on a historical or fictional character. You will need explicit permission from your instructor to use a historical or fictional character.

You may use your supervisor as a resource, but you should work more independently on the following steps than you did in Case Study 1:

• Without violating confidentiality, provide background information on your subject (or group/situation), including behaviors observed, any medical information that is available, socio-cultural factors that might affect treatment, etc.
• Provide information about current behaviors, specifically maladaptive behaviors, and about current treatment plans/progress.