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Corin

Marshall
Senior Project Outline 1- Project Overview

Area of concentration (micro or macro)
o Micro focusing on the ACT adolescent group at Geisinger
Bloomsburg Hospital (possibly a few other clinics, uncertain of this
right now)
Will you review a client or client system in your agency or will you review a
program that is offered to clients or a new program that you would like to
propose?
o Im reviewing a program that is offered to the clients here. I will be
conducting some outcomes studies for the ACT (acceptance and
commitment therapy) group that my supervisor runs every week.
Provide a general description of goals/outcomes
o I will be involved in pre and post measures of the participants of the
group to evaluate if ACT is effective. East Carolina University (ECU) is
going to be a partner in this process, and they will be running similar
studies down at their clinics. So itll be a team process. We will use
general cognitive flexibility measurements and various scales to
determine effectiveness. In addition well be doing literature research.
We are still working out the process of doing this, but thats a general
description. ACT has been proven to work in adults, but testing its
effectiveness with adolescents is not very common. After discussing
with Shelley, she believes this will really give back to the agency
because they want to know if this really works.
Discuss why you chose this area of concentration
o I chose this area of concentration because I will be involved in this
group from beginning to end. I would hope that in the end the group
process was effective, but its important to get research and measures
to back it up. I also think that having this exposure to research will be
beneficial to me in the future.
Discuss potential challenges you expect to have with this project and how
you plan to overcome them
o I expect that research and psychology barriers will come up. I am
trained in social work, so I think that trying to use psychology and
research will be difficult for me. Of course weve had research class
and psychology classes, but the people I am working with are
professionals and doctors so I predict some obstacles.
Discuss who you plan to work with on this project
o I will be working with Shelly, as well as another psychologist at this
clinic. His name is Cody Hostutler. I will also be working with Sean
Maclain ODell, an assistant professor in the Pediatric School of
Psychology at East Carolina University. It sounds like there is talk that
I will be helping out at other clinics, too, so I am not sure right now if I

will be working with anyone else. Shelley and I are finalizing a plan,
but this is what we intend on doing.

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