The case assessment is designed to evaluate students’ ability to apply the engagement, assessment and intervention strategies taught in the course. Students will be given two vignettes and will be required to identify the risk and protective factors for suicide present in the case, to identify appropriate assessment tools, and to determine an appropriate treatment approach (including specific strategies and techniques from the treatment model that would be utilized). Students should consider how social, environmental and structural factors (power, privilege, difference, oppression) impact your assessment. Specifically, students will be required to address the following questions: 1) What warning signs are present in the case example? 2) What risk factors are present in the case example? 3) What protective factors are present in the case example? 4) What else would you want to know to help you determine the client’s current level of risk? Be specific. 5) What level of risk do you believe the client represents? Justify your answer. 6) In what ways may your personal values/beliefs/expectations impact your assessment of this client? 7) In what ways may social, environmental and structural factors (power, privilege, difference, oppression) impact your assessment of this client? 8) How would you work to engage this client in treatment? 9) What evidence-informed/based practice(s) would you suggest to the client as the best approach to treatment? Justify your answer. 10) What specific treatment strategies from the practice approach(es) would you utilize? Justify your choices. Eric is a white, 19 year old male. He shares in his first session he has known he was gay since childhood, but only recently able to tell friends, He suffered from bullying from students in junior high, but found in high school a group of friends with whom he felt comfortable. Over the weekend he told his parents he is gay,, and they instantly disapproved and said they could not support him and “his new lifestyle”. They said they would no longer give him money for rent and asked for him to consider going to a counselor within the church that “helps with these issues.” Eric’s family is very conservative Christian. He grew up in the church, and felt very victimized growing up hearing his parents and others in his church community talk about “sinful behaviors”. He loved his parents and even his church community, but felt a huge disconnect in his heart as he started to develop his own identity. He would often ask why they can’t just love everyone equally. n his teen years Eric began identifying as spiritual, but not “religious”. He refused to go to church, which began a rift with his parents when he was 16. He truly doesn’t see a day when his parents will accept his identity. Eric has a cousin whom his parents “disowned” a few years prior when she came out as bi-sexual. For the past few years he has suffered from depression off and on. During his depressive episodes he will use alcohol as a way of self-medicating. He tends to drink withg others, but this last episode he has been drinking alone. Eric was diagnosed with depression and anxiety when he was 17, but never considered medications for help with managing symptoms. He has shared he is typically able to cope on his own, but has had suicidal ideations in the past, but no attempts. He said he has never attempted. He finished high school and attends a local community college. He hopes one day to work as a writer, and enjoys reading and art. He feels very hopeless about his family situati9on. Despite their differences, he wants a close relationship with his parents and siblings, and considers that to be a primary goal in his life. He still speaks to his younger brother, however he is fearful his parents will harm that relationship.