- Description
BSHS/402 Case Management
Discussion Questions
Week One Discussion Questions
- Define the following terms:
o Assessment
o Chronic illness
o Developmental disability
o Disability impairment
o Monitoring
o Outreach
o Service coordination
- Describe various types of case managers—social work, nursing, psychology, and so forth—and the tasks performed by each. Compare client-driven goals and provider-given goals.
Week Two Discussion Questions
- Describe the benefits and drawbacks for case management of managed care. Share your own experiences
with or observations of managed care and case management.
- List the steps in the model of case management found in your textbook readings and apply those steps to a case of your choice. Describe what you might do in each step.
Week Three Discussion Questions
- List the components of an intake interview. In other words, what do you need to find out?
- List the components of assessment. Describe how you would assess the seriousness of each problem and the steps you might take to address them.
Week Four Discussion Questions
- Explain the difference between counseling and therapy. What do case managers do?
- Describe the theoretical approaches to counseling and therapy as outlined in the textbook, including:
o Ego psychology
o Behaviorism
o Cognitive-behaviorism
o Crisis intervention
Week Five Discussion Questions
- Describe the following components of reassessment and outcome evaluation:
o Tasks and objectives
o Instruments
o Obstacles
o Discharge evaluation
Week One: Case Management Overview, Clientele, and Practice Models | |||
Details | Due | Points | |
Objectives | 1.1 Understand the basic definition and application of the case management function and process. 1.2 Delineate the concepts of case management as they apply to the needs of various special populations. 1.3 Describe the components of an integrated delivery model of case management. | ||
Readings | Read the Appendix and Ch. 1, 2, & 10 of Case Management. Read this week’s Electronic Reserve Readings. | ||
Participation | Participate in class discussion. Four out of seven days in the main forum-minimum two substantial responses to receive credit. | All week | 15 |
Discussion Questions | Respond to weekly discussion questions. Minimum One resource cited – APA format for credit. | Thursday Day 3 | 30 |
Weekly Summary | Weekly summary | Monday Day 7 | 5 |
Nongraded Activities and Preparation Learning Team Discussion Journal | . Discussion one: enter into a journal the most significant learning you had in the Learning Team discussion this week. A review of the posts during the Learning Ask yourself what was the most significant thought, feeling, idea, or reaction you had as a result of the activities completed in the Learning Team meeting. POST thread as “Team Meeting One” The content of your journal must be related to the course objectives rather than the Learning Team dynamics. An entry describing your feelings about group members, for example, would not be appropriate, but an entry describing your reactions to the concept of using case management in the managed care setting would be. Write three to five complete sentences. Regardless of the form, you must follow rules of proper grammar and punctuation. The completed journal is collected in Week Five. | ||
Learning Team Instructions | Review the Week One objectives and discuss with your team insights and questions you may have. Title the Thread: “Articles Week 1” Create the Learning Team Charter to be submitted in week 2. Prepare for the Case Manager Interviews Presentation. · Create a plan for how the case manager interviews will be selected and conducted and adding any new ideas. · Discuss the areas that each of you wishes to pursue, who to contact, and how to contact likely interviewees. · Information obtained from these interviews is combined and synthesized into your APA written team project presentation in Week Five about how case managers function in the real world. Search online for articles on case management for special needs populations. Post the resource to your Learning Team’s appropriate Thread. · Divide the various disability populations and conduct an online search for articles on each student’s specific population. · Review the articles found and focus on the similarities and differences in services to the various populations. Conduct a group discussion in which you review the similarities and differences in case management practices between special needs populations. Search online for articles on case management in the managed care setting. | Monday Day 7 L.T. Participa-tion | 15 |
Week Two: Implementation of the Case Management Process | |||
Details | Due | Points | |
Objectives | 2 2.1 Describe the role and practice framework of case management. 2.2 Identify the differences and similarities of case management in the community setting and in the managed care environment. | ||
Readings | Read Ch. 3 & 4 of Case Management. Read this week’s Electronic Reserve Readings. | ||
Participation | Participate in class discussion. Four out of seven days in the main forum-minimum two substantial responses to receive credit. | 15 | |
Discussion Questions | Respond to weekly discussion questions. Minimum One resource cited – APA format for credit. | 30 | |
Nongraded Activities and Preparation | Enter into your Learning Team Meeting Observations Journal the most significant learning you had in the meeting TWO. | ||
Learning Team Instructions | Prepare for the Textbook Quiz in Week Three by reviewing Ch. 1–4 of Case Management as a group. Discuss progress being made in completing the case manager interviews, including any difficulties anyone is experiencing, and solve problems as a team to overcome the difficulties. Diversity Issues Exercise Search online for articles on differences and similarities in sex, race, culture, politics, and religion. Bring and post to your Learning Team thread. “Diversity Issues Exercise” After you have completed your post, discuss with each other about what you find hard to discuss, what you find easy. Discuss your experiences. Submit the completed Learning Team Charter. | LT participa- tion Monday Day 7 Tuesday Day 1 | 15 25 |
Weekly Summary | Weekly Summary | Monday Day 7 | 5 |
Week Three: Case Management Skills: Interpersonal and Information Gathering Skills, Goal Setting, Intervention, and Evaluation | |||
Details | Due | Points | |
Objectives | 3 3.1 Demonstrate the interpersonal skills necessary to build rapport in the early stages of case management. 3.2 Understand the integration of assessment to problem identification and goal setting. 3.3 Examine the connection between intervention planning and resource utilization. | ||
Readings | Read Ch. 5 & 6 of Case Management. Read this week’s Electronic Reserve Readings. | ||
Participation | Participate in class discussion. Four out of seven days in the main forum-minimum two substantial responses to receive credit. | All week | 15 |
Discussion Questions | Respond to weekly discussion questions. Minimum One resource cited – APA format for credit. | Thursday Day 3 | 30 |
Nongraded Activities and Preparation | Enter into your Learning Team Meeting Observations Journal the most significant learning you had in the meeting. | ||
Learning Team Instructions | Discuss progress being made toward locating appropriate interviewees for the case management interviews, including any difficulties anyone is facing or experiencing, and solve problems as a team to overcome the difficulties. Conduct an online search for MIS programs designed to help case managers track clients, gather statistical data, generate reports, access resources, and record contacts. Discuss your findings as a group. Discuss the value of such systems in the case management process and the provision of client services. | Monday Day 7 | 15 |
Individual Textbook Quiz | Complete the quiz on Ch. 1–4 of Case Management. | 100 | |
Weekly Summary | Weekly Summary | Monday Day 7 | 5 |
Week Four: Case Management Skills: Counseling, Therapy, and Linking of Clients to Services | |||
Details | Due | Points | |
Objectives | 4 4.1 Examine the personal helping interventions that can have positive effects on behavioral patterns of vulnerable clients. 4.2 Understand the case manager’s role in developing formal and informal linkages to benefit the client. | ||
Readings | Read Ch. 7 & 9 of Case Management. Read this week’s Electronic Reserve Readings. | ||
Participation | Participate in class discussion. Four out of seven days in the main forum-minimum two substantial responses to receive credit. | 15 | |
Discussion Questions | Respond to weekly discussion questions. Minimum One resource cited – APA format for credit. | 30 | |
Nongraded Activities and Preparation | Enter into your Learning Team Meeting Observations Journal the most significant learning you had in the meeting. | ||
Learning Team Instructions | Review textbook material as a group from Weeks One through Four in preparation for the Final Examination in Week Five. Continue preparing for the completion of the 20-minute Case Manager Interviews Presentation due in Week Five. | Monday Day 7 | 15 |
Weekly Summary | Weekly Summary | Monday day 7 | 5 |
Individual Special Populations Paper | Resource: University of Phoenix Material: Criteria for Preparing Individual Paper on Special Populations Review the material gathered on your chosen special population for the Week One Learning Team discussion. Write a 3- to 5 page paper in which you explain the following: · What populations have you reviewed and which one have you selected? · How and why have you selected this population? How was this area of interest formed? · What do you bring to the field of helping that would benefit this specific population? · How would you use case management to help this population? · What limitations and strengths do you bring to this chosen field? How would you use the strengths and overcome the limitations? · Are there likely to be multicultural issues to be addressed as you work with this population? How would you address those? · What local resources did you find in your Internet search for this population? For credit: Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines. Don’t forget headings to orient your reader! | 150 | |
Week Five: Case Management Skills: Reassessment, Outcome Monitoring, and Advocacy, and General Case Management Problems | |||
Details | Due | Points | |
Objectives | 5 5.1 Understand the correlation of reassessment, monitoring, and outcome evaluation to the prevention of future problems. | ||
Readings | Read Ch. 8 of Case Management. Review Ch. 1–9 of Case Management. Read this week’s Electronic Reserve Readings. | ||
Participation | Participate in class discussion. Four out of seven days in the main forum-minimum two substantial responses to receive credit. | 15 | |
Discussion Questions | Respond to weekly discussion question. Minimum One resource cited – APA format for credit. | 30 | |
Individual Learning Team Meeting Observations Journal | Submit your journal. | 100 | |
Individual Final Examination | Complete the Final Quiz | 150 | |
Learning Team Case Manager Interviews Presentation | Submit the information compiled by the team’s research and interviews on case managers. | 200 | |
Learning Team Participation | Monday Day 7 | 15 | |
Weekly Summary | Monday Day 7 | 5 |