Assignment: ADD 5945 Capella Addiction Treatment Supervision and Program Management Paper
Assignment: ADD 5945 Capella Addiction Treatment Supervision and Program Management Paper
Question Description
SCENARIO 1: IMALEAVIN ADDICTION TREATMENT
Use the Capella University Library to complete the following:
Read Garner and Hunter’s 2014 article, “Predictors of Staff Turnover and Turnover Intentions Within Addiction Treatment Settings: Change Over Time Matters,” from Substance Abuse: Research and Treatment, volume 8, pages 63–71.
Read Knudsen, Ducharme, and Roman’s 2008 article, “Clinical Supervision, Emotional Exhaustion, and Turnover Intention: A Study of Substance Abuse Treatment Counselors in the Clinical Trials Network of the National Institute on Drug Abuse,” from Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, volume 35, issue 4, pages 387–395.
Imaleavin is experiencing a high rate of staff turnover. Over the past five years, the annual staff turnover has increased from twenty to fifty percent as the agency and range of services has expanded. Imaleavin was founded by a partnership between a psychologist, Dr. Sylvia Smart, and an entrepreneur, Bob Money. When they opened their doors 10 years ago, they had a staff of 15. The agency focused on outpatient services with a variety of treatment groups held primarily in the evening. It was not particularly concerning when two or three staff members left for other opportunities each year.
Five years ago, Bob decided it was time to expand. Imaleavin’s reputation in the community was well established, and he was convinced that expanding the range of services offered would bring in more clients and revenue allowing them to purchase their own building and expand to offer a range of services from detox to extended recovery support. Dr. Smart reluctantly agreed, but insisted that they add a medical director to their staff, Dr. Rude, to oversee the medically supervised detox and pharmacological interventions. The agency and staff doubled in size in those five years.
Dr. Smart recognized that the expansion represented a significant change for the agency and several staff objected to the introduction of replacement therapy and left before the expansion even began. She anticipated that once new staff members committed to the new programs were recruited, the typical annual turnover rate of 20 percent would resume. Alarmingly, staff continued to leave at increasing rates each year for the next five years. Dr. Smart has convinced Bob that conducting a program evaluation is critical to understanding the turnover of staff and developing strategies to address it. Bob recognized that staff turnover damaged their reputation. The expense of bringing in outside consultants could be offset by reduced costs for staff training. Bob is wounded that his dream is not being embraced, but agreed to allow your staff to review data on hiring and retention to gain insights. He has also agreed to have your staff conduct exit interviews to gain data that may not be revealed by numbers.
Identify fundamental supervisory issues that are relevant to your selected scenario. Differentiate these from other leadership concerns or external issues that might be present. Focus only on supervision-related issues for the purposes of this assignment.
What kinds of supervisory models and methods that you have read about in this course are applicable to your scenario? Apply the identified models of supervision to the issues raised in the scenario. How would effective supervision help to mitigate the challenges presented?
Consider the related ethical implications that must be addressed in the application of your identified model or method of supervision.
Suggest appropriate administrative policies and procedures to employ in the implementation of these models or methods. What federal guidelines for the delivery of addiction treatment services (such as HIPAA) may be applicable?
Written communication: Written communication must be grammatically correct and free of errors that detract from the overall message. Writing should be consistent with graduate level scholarship.
APA formatting: Title page, main body, and references should be formatted according to APA (6th edition) style and formatting.
Number of resources: Minimum of three scholarly resources.
Length of paper: 3–4 typed, double-spaced pages. No abstract or table of contents is required.
Font: Times New Roman, 12 point.
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You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.
Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.
Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.
The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.
ADDITIONAL INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE CLASS
Discussion Questions (DQ)
Initial responses to the DQ should address all components of the questions asked, include a minimum of one scholarly source, and be at least 250 words.
Successful responses are substantive (i.e., add something new to the discussion, engage others in the discussion, well-developed idea) and include at least one scholarly source.
One or two sentence responses, simple statements of agreement or “good post,” and responses that are off-topic will not count as substantive. Substantive responses should be at least 150 words.
I encourage you to incorporate the readings from the week (as applicable) into your responses.
Weekly Participation
Your initial responses to the mandatory DQ do not count toward participation and are graded separately.
In addition to the DQ responses, you must post at least one reply to peers (or me) on three separate days, for a total of three replies.
Participation posts do not require a scholarly source/citation (unless you cite someone else’s work).
Part of your weekly participation includes viewing the weekly announcement and attesting to watching it in the comments. These announcements are made to ensure you understand everything that is due during the week.
APA Format and Writing Quality
Familiarize yourself with APA format and practice using it correctly. It is used for most writing assignments for your degree. Visit the Writing Center in the Student Success Center, under the Resources tab in LoudCloud for APA paper templates, citation examples, tips, etc. Points will be deducted for poor use of APA format or absence of APA format (if required).
Cite all sources of information! When in doubt, cite the source. Paraphrasing also requires a citation.
I highly recommend using the APA Publication Manual, 6th edition.
Use of Direct Quotes
I discourage overutilization of direct quotes in DQs and assignments at the Masters’ level and deduct points accordingly.
As Masters’ level students, it is important that you be able to critically analyze and interpret information from journal articles and other resources. Simply restating someone else’s words does not demonstrate an understanding of the content or critical analysis of the content.
It is best to paraphrase content and cite your source.
LopesWrite Policy
For assignments that need to be submitted to LopesWrite, please be sure you have received your report and Similarity Index (SI) percentage BEFORE you do a “final submit” to me.
Once you have received your report, please review it. This report will show you grammatical, punctuation, and spelling errors that can easily be fixed. Take the extra few minutes to review instead of getting counted off for these mistakes.
Review your similarities. Did you forget to cite something? Did you not paraphrase well enough? Is your paper made up of someone else’s thoughts more than your own?
Visit the Writing Center in the Student Success Center, under the Resources tab in LoudCloud for tips on improving your paper and SI score.
Late Policy
The university’s policy on late assignments is 10% penalty PER DAY LATE. This also applies to late DQ replies.
Please communicate with me if you anticipate having to submit an assignment late. I am happy to be flexible, with advance notice. We may be able to work out an extension based on extenuating circumstances.
If you do not communicate with me before submitting an assignment late, the GCU late policy will be in effect.
I do not accept assignments that are two or more weeks late unless we have worked out an extension.
As per policy, no assignments are accepted after the last day of class. Any assignment submitted after midnight on the last day of class will not be accepted for grading.
Communication
Communication is so very important. There are multiple ways to communicate with me:
Questions to Instructor Forum: This is a great place to ask course content or assignment questions. If you have a question, there is a good chance one of your peers does as well. This is a public forum for the class.
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