Did your client meet the full criteria for the diagnosis? If not, what other diagnoses did you consider and what additional information did you need to obtain?

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Making a Diagnosis

By this point in your fieldwork experience, you have likely completed a formal or informal diagnostic assessment of a client at your site or you have discussed possible diagnoses with your site supervisor.

For this discussion, identify a client from your site and address the following questions based on your diagnostic assessment:

· Describe your client’s presenting problem and concerns in no more than one paragraph. What initially brought your client to counseling?

· Describe your diagnostic impression of the client:

o What symptoms were most apparent in your client’s presentation?

o What was your impression of the DSM diagnosis or diagnoses that best fit for your client?

o Did your client meet the full criteria for the diagnosis? If not, what other diagnoses did you consider and what additional information did you need to obtain?

· Include the specific sociocultural factors you considered in your assessment of your client. Consider age, gender, and ethnicity in your post.

Your initial post and responses are expected to be substantive in nature and to reference the assigned readings, as well as other theoretical, empirical, or professional literature to support your views and writings. Cite and reference your sources using standard APA guidelines.

Resources

· Discussion Participation Scoring Guide.

· Back to Basics: Using the DSM-5 to Benefit Clients.

· Ethical Dimensions of Diagnosing: Considerations for Clinical Mental Health Counselors.

· APA Style and Format.

What relevant standards from the 2017 Code of Ethics apply to this discussion? Describe how you would apply at least three of these standards when making decisions in your supervisory practice.

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Place yourself in the role of supervisor. Using this supervisory lens, discuss, apply and synthesize what the current scholarly social work literature says about all of following content areas. Use the first person to write this paper -this is acceptable in APA format for this type of paper. Subheadings are required to organize the content. (ex. Definition, Concerns in the Supervisory Relationship, Concerns in Practice with Clients, Prevention and Management, Ethical Standards, Values Reflection). These are all main sections and would be considered first level headings per APA.

  1. Define the term dual relationships.
  2. Identify and discuss the concerns related to dual relationships in the supervisory relationship. Address concerns related to the ethical use of technology in supervisory practice. Provide specific examples.
  3. Identify and discuss the concerns related to dual relationships in practice with clients. Address any concerns related to the ethical use of technology in practice with clients. Provide specific examples.
  4. As a supervisor, what can you do to prevent these concerns? If prevention is not possible or unsuccessful, what can you do manage the situation? What are the recommended supervisory practices (e.g. ethical decision-making models, frameworks and theories) for maintaining professionalism within the supervisory relationship and how might you use these practices? How can you apply practices supported by the literature to assist your supervisees in maintaining professionalism with their clients? Be specific.
  5. What relevant standards from the 2017 Code of Ethics apply to this discussion? Describe how you would apply at least three of these standards when making decisions in your supervisory practice. How will you use these standards to guide your professional judgment and behavior when providing supervision to others? Provide specific examples. Include applicable standards addressing the areas of dual relationships, social work supervision, and technology. Please do not retype the whole standard in the paper, just mention and cite it. Make sure to explain in your own words why these are relevant standards and how you would apply then in supervisory practice.
  6. Reflect on your personal values and the alignment with social work values as described in the 2017 NASW Code of Ethics (ex. service, social justice, dignity and worth of the person, importance of human relationships, integrity, competence). Explain in detail how your personal and professional values will assist you in maintaining your professionalism in social work practice, as a supervisor, and as a participant on an inter-professional team (in other words, with team members who are not social workers). Describe how you would limit the influence of personal values that may be incongruent with social work values.

This 8-10-page paper requires a minimum of six scholarly sources that address the social work profession. At least three of these sources must be different from the articles assigned for reading in the course. Scholarly writing in the School of Social Work requires the accurate use of APA 6th Edition. Students must use Times New Roman 12-point font. An abstract is not required for this assignment.

Submit a 1–2-page reflection paper summarizing your meeting with your faculty advisor (MFCT, MHC, and SC learners) or a counseling professional in the community (certificate, Pre-Counseling Psychology majors, and non-degree learners).

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Assignment – Preparation

To help you prepare for your final assignment in Unit 10, read Gibson, Dollarhide, and Moss’s 2010 article, “Professional Identity Development: A Grounded Theory of Transformational Tasks of New Counselors,” from Counselor Education and Supervision, volume 50, issue 1, pages 21–38. (Link to this article is given in the resources.)

Also, review the Developing Your Professional Identity Scoring Guide to know the requirements and grading criteria for the assignment.

Resources

  • Professional Identity Development: A Grounded Theory of Transformational Tasks of New Counselors.

 

Overview

Meeting with a counseling professional is a great opportunity to begin to explore the profession of counseling. Individuals may take a variety of paths to become competent in their fields. As they attain education, apply the knowledge, and gain experience in the field, they begin to form their professional identities. The meeting you held with a counseling professional gave you the opportunity to explore a professional’s background, credentials, and experiences, and helped you to understand the importance of connecting within the profession.

The purpose of this assignment is to reflect on what you learned from your meeting. Besides summarizing what you heard, think about how your understanding has increased. Consider how the professional you met with arrived at where he or she is today. Think about the connection you would like to have to the field of counseling, and consider what that means in terms of the professional identity that you would like to achieve.

Directions

Submit a 1–2-page reflection paper summarizing your meeting with your faculty advisor (MFCT, MHC, and SC learners) or a counseling professional in the community (certificate, Pre-Counseling Psychology majors, and non-degree learners).

Review the scoring guide given in the resources to make sure you understand how this assignment will be graded.

Please no plagiarism and make sure you are able to access all resource on your own before you bid. One of the references must come from Sue, D. W., & Sue, D. (2016).

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Please no plagiarism and make sure you are able to access all resource on your own before you bid. One of the references must come from Sue, D. W., & Sue, D. (2016). You are expected to include at least one scholarly and peer-reviewed resource outside of those provided in the readings for each discussion post. I need this completed by 03/14/18 at 7pm.

Cultural Competency Guidelines

The Association for Multicultural Counseling and Development (AMCD) has provided a Multicultural Counseling Competencies document. Culturally competent counselors regularly review these guidelines to ensure that they are engaging in culturally competent and ethical counseling practices.
For this Discussion, review the AMCD Multicultural Counseling Competencies. Note the strengths and limitations of the guidelines and consider two recommendations you would make to improve them. The “Multicultural and Social Justice Competencies” are attached in a link here.  These were approved in summer, 2015. These can be a resource as you write your posts.
With these thoughts in mind:
Post by Day 3

· A brief description of the strengths and limitations of the AMCD Multicultural Counseling Competencies.

· Two recommendations you might make to enhance the current guidelines.

· A Brief explanation of how these recommendations can assist counselors in working with culturally diverse clients.

Required Resources

Readings

· Sue, D. W., & Sue, D. (2016). Counseling the culturally diverse: Theory and practice (7th ed.). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.

o Chapter 5, “The Impact of Systemic Oppression: Counselor Credibility and Client Worldviews” (pp. 145-178)

o Chapter 11, “Racial/Cultural Identity Development in People of Color: Counseling Implications” (pp. 355-388)

o Chapter 12, “White Racial Identity Development: Therapeutic Implications” (pp. 389-420)

· AMCD multicultural counseling competences. (1996). Retrieved from http://www.counseling.org/Resources/Competencies/Multcultural_Competencies.pdf

· Multicultural and Social Justice Counseling Competencies. (2015). Retrieved October 27, 2015, from http://www.counseling.org/docs/default-source/competencies/multicultural-and-social-justice-counseling-competencies.pdf?sfvrsn=20

Optional Resources

· McIntosh, P. (1990). White privilege: Unpacking the invisible knapsack. Independent School, 49(2), 31–35.