See Appendix 2 for Rubric
The goal of this paper is to help you integrate your key lessons gleaned across the semester with professional counseling literature, class text and class discussions. You need to use both primary (e.g., peer-reviewed journal articles) and secondary (e.g., text books and websites) conceptual and empirical literature (a minimum of 6 sources). Paper should be 10-15 pages in length, written in third person, and inclusive of an APA 7th ed.Title Page, Abstract, Conclusion, and Reference sections ((i.e., no more than 15 pages total). You can select 2 to 4 counseling theories in the creation of your own integrative theory. You are to address the following areas in your paper, each bullet should be indicated by a clear heading within the body of your paper:
Part I:
• This paper provides a self-evaluation of the counselor-in-training (CIT) life (i.e., overview from birth, educational progression leading to graduate school at Brockport, successes and challenges)
• Identifies the CITs foundational assumptions (beliefs) about human nature, change, the interplay among thoughts, feelings, behaviors, and the influence of context and define mental health and pathology.
• Identifies and describe how the CIT believes problems develop or how people get stuck (e.g., how
wounding/problems occur) and how people change (e.g., how healing happens).
Part II:
• This paper addresses theories of multicultural counseling and identity development, theories of individual and family development, theories of personality development, and theories and models of counseling (including clinical mental health counseling) where the CIT identifies counseling theories (2-4) with which they align (here CIT provides a brief background/history of the theories, foundational content, and theorist) and explain why they identified those theories.
For each theoretical framework selected in the bullet above, you must demonstrate knowledge of key overall elements of the theory, i.e., define terms, how the theory is used in counseling.
• This paper addresses counselor characteristics and behaviors where the CIT proposes how they will integrate their beliefs (Part I) with these theories and provide a rationale for how they fit or do not fit, and specify how their theoretical approach will be used in college, mental health, or school settings.
Part III:
• This paper addresses how the CIT develops a personal model of counseling that:
Examines the effects of power and privilege for counselors and clients.
Focuses on eliminating barriers, prejudices, and processes of oppression
Promotes resilience, optimum development, and wellness
Captures multicultural and pluralistic characteristics of clients (including cultural factors relevant to clinical mental health counseling)
Provides a systems approach to conceptualizing clients
Delineates interviewing, counseling and case conceptualizing skills (including intake interview, mental status evaluation, biopsychosocial history, mental health history, and psychological assessment for treatment planning and caseload management for mental health counselors)
Incorporates techniques and interventions for prevention and treatment (of a broad range of mental health issues by mental health counselors); and/or including techniques of personal/social counseling in school settings and strategies to promote equity in student achievement and college access (for school counselors)
Allows differing abilities and differentiated interventions.
The CIT will incorporate the information in Part III above by discussing how they integrate the theories selected in Part II into their (single) Integrative Counseling Approach (feel free to name and refer to your approach: e.g., Harrichand’s Integration Theory and use the acronym: e.g., HIT). At this point onwards you should not be referring to any of the individual theories selected in Part II above. Instead you should only be referencing your newly developed theory.
For College, Mental Health, and School Counseling Students address: Assessment, Case Conceptualization, Diagnosis, Treatment Planning, Treatment and Aftercare as they relate to your perceived population.
Provide a brief case study example (outlining the areas in the previous sections in the bullet above) of how the CIT’s Integrative Theory can be applied in their expected counseling setting: College, Mental Health, School.
• The CIT considers their approach’s strengths and weaknesses, and its applicability with diverse clients, including: ethnically, sexually, intellectually, level of dysfunction, and level of compliance.
• The paper concludes by considering the impact of the CIT’s theoretical approach in their role as a professional counselor.
I want to be come a drug/ alcohol mental health counselor working with individuals just out of rehab:
Person centered and CBT theory ( allowed to use more than 2) If you find another theory that works – great
I have to create my own theory – Name is Zach’s Theory –
Case Study : 29 year old male, got hurt at age 21 at work prescribed oxycontin. Had surgery to fix his back ccontiuned a high dose of oxycontin, Contstant pain doctor kicked him off prescribed medication and he turned to street drugs becaue he was addicted. Ended up losing job, selling things in house for drugs and his gf kicked him out he is currently homeless. He just completed rehab.
I need to add how he ended up in rehab, the case theory is something I made up. Please feel free to add to it.
