CPCS Suggestions for Use

CPCS Across the Curriculum

The Client Profile Case Study® creates multidimensional, realistically complex client profiles for use as case studies. They can be used as the case itself or as the client information for clinical or other cases without identifying client information. The Client Profile Case Study® is a set of identities, characteristics, and experiences for an individual. Scenarios 1 through 4 are geared towards counselors- or therapists-in-training.

Scenario 1: Multicultural Counseling

Introduces students to the concept of intersectionality and working with clients across cultural and social identities. There may not be a specific clinical issue, however, the student is learning about their assumptions and biases, how to research and learn more about their clients, and how different identities impact and are impacted by client mental health.

Scenario 2: Psychopathology

Introduces students to the impact of assessment and diagnosis on individuals with different social and cultural identities. It can be paired with a clinical profile that describes current clinical concerns and levels of functioning. The student would learn not only how to create a case conceptualization, but how to understand behaviors within sociocultural contexts. 

Scenario 3: Human Development

Built across the lifespan allowing students the opportunity to follow a client from birth to end of life. This particular frame increases understanding of sociocultural factors during each developmental phase. The student can understand impact of social and cultural identities on developmental processes.

Scenario 4: Vocational/Career Counseling

Introduces students to the impact of client social and cultural identities on the role of work in their lives. They would examine how these identities are impacted by the work environment.

Scenario 5: Health Care

Health care trainees would use the Client Profile Case Study® to examine the role of culture in diagnosis and treatment. The trainee would get experience examining sociocultural factors and their interrelation with health and well-being.

Scenario 6: Teacher Education

Within a cohort training model each teacher receives a different profile, and the profiles together make up a class. The teachers would gain insight about their assigned student as an individual and within the context of the other students in the class. The cohort of teachers would work together to imagine an ideal learning environment that could serve the needs of all students.

Is CPCS right for my course?

When deciding to use the Client Profile Case Study®, start with the goals and objectives of your course. How does case study fit into the overall plan of the course? Next, identify the specific objective of the case study and decide the parameters for its use. Will it be for one exercise, such as a case conceptualization in psychopathology? Will it be built upon over the course of the semester as more is learned about a client as in the human development example? Finally, build the assignment and identify the relevant identities, characteristics, and experiences. If not already built into the web app, the administrator will work with you to include them, taking the following into consideration: 

• Is the category shared within the community in which my students are learning and working? 

• Are their multiple identity, characteristic, or experience possibilities within the category? 

• Are the identities, characteristics, or experiences relevant to the course?

Hire Me

As the creator of the Client Profile Case Study®, I am available to administer and present the CPCS activity to your class or workshop. 

For rates and parameters, email Donna at theevaldoc@gmail.com. 

In your email indicate the title of the course or workshop, the number of participants, the anticipated date and time of the course or workshop, and the location: in-person (indicate city/town; Greater Boston only at this time) or virtual (indicate time zone).