CASE STUDY: TOOL FOR EFFECTIVE COUNSELING

Presented by:

JAYSON S. HERNANDEZGuidance Counselor I

San Miguel National High School

DEFINITION OF CASE STUDY

An analysis and write up of the data collected in a case history.

Is a report on an interview investigation of many important aspects of some unit - a person, a group, a community, an institution or the like. (All available data about an individual are surveyed and the significant items are assembled, organized and studied in order that the nature and the causes of difficulties maybe discovered and the treatment designed to remove the difficulties maybe planned and carried out).

It is a detailed study of an individual conducted for the purpose of bringing about better adjustment of the person who is the subject of the investigation.

All information gathered about an individual.

PURPOSE OF CASE STUDY

Provide increased understanding of the student.

RELIABLE SOURCES OF INFORMATION

Cumulative Records Observations Interviews Autobiographies Self-reports Tests Teacher Reactions School Records

ASSEMBLING AND ORGANIZING DATA

To collect for the school records all important information pertaining to the student.

Interview those who have contact with the student including subject teachers, class adviser, librarian, friends and possibly parents.

To interview the student himself and perhaps to give him additional tests. When a complete data about the student have been collected, the case should be written and a tentative diagnosis and plan of treatment should be formulated.

PLANNING THE CASE STUDY

If possible, choose a student from one of your classes who you feel needs attention and help, and who will cooperate with you.

Select a case in which you are interested, both for the standpoint of the nature of the case and the personality of the individual concerned.

When considering various students, give some thought to the shy, quiet and retiring student. Students of this type are sometimes interesting subjects for case study than students whose difficulties or behavior cause them to be notices.

Plan only as much as you feel that you can accomplish.

Plan only as much as you feel that you can accomplish

PRINCIPLES TO BE OBSERVED IN WRITING THE CASE

Write objectively, simply and with directedness – the description of the case should be as objective and the interpretation should be as impersonal as possible.

Use both general statements and specific illustrations.

Eliminate irrelevant items, confine the case report to a few type written pages.

SUGGESTIONS TO CLARIFY PROBLEMS IN APPLYING AND EVALUATING TREATMENT

A case investigator should not attempt to apply treatment for difficulties that are entirely outside his experience. If the problem is one of the reading or study difficulty, he should be able to offer the student valuable help in learning.

During the period of treatment, the case investigator should keep a careful journal record of the progress of treatment. He should depend upon his memory but keep a record of his interview.

If the case is the kind that leads itself to measurement, comparable tests should be administered at the beginning and the end of the treatment.

After the case has been released from treatment, it should be followed up and the individual under observation for a few months to make sure that a relapse does not take place.

ADVANTAGES OF CASE STUDY

It permits the person to be understood and treated as an individual.

It also provides a basis for more complete understanding and gives a more accurate evaluation of events, thus preventing superficiality and quick judgments.

It can reduce the number of errors in diagnosis by ensuring that the individual thoroughly studies the facts of the clients’ presents.

SUGGESTED OUTLINE FOR CASE STUDY

Statement of the Problem Analysis of Data Synthesis of the Problem Diagnosis Counseling Techniques Prognosis Follow-up

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