Read the ethical dilemma and analyze applying the American Counseling Association’s (ACA) Decision Making Model as outlined in the document, “A Practitioner’s Guide to Ethical Decision Making.”  

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Your thesis statement may not refer to yourself, your paper, or your readers. Simply state the point that your paper will argue or demonstrate. Your outline must have an introduction that includes your thesis statement, two or more supporting main points with at least two pieces of evidence (statistics, data, or source quotes) for each of those points, and a conclusion that sums up the main supporting points and restates your thesis. Your annotated bibliography must include a citation, a summary, an analysis, and the relevance of at least four scholarly sources in APA Format.

Content for Outline Annotated Bibliography:

Read the ethical dilemma and analyze applying the American Counseling Association’s (ACA) Decision Making Model as outlined in the document, “A Practitioner’s Guide to Ethical Decision Making.”

 

Ethical Dilemma 

Amanda, a counselor in a public high school, decides to start a “relationship skills” group for juniors and seniors. She posts an advertisement for the group in the school counseling office.  Her advertisement provides minimal information including the name of the group, the date and time of the first meeting and the school counseling office secretary is listed as the contact. Amanda instructs the secretary for the counseling office to admit the first nine students who call to enroll. The secretary adds students to the group as they call in irrespective of the nature of their problems, their personal goals for the group or previous experience with group.

At the first meeting, nine students show up including seven females and two males.  Having never talked with or met the students before, Amanda begins by asking them to share why they have come to the group. One of the males, Paul, shares that he was new to the high school this year, and had just been released from a detention center after serving one year for domestic violence. Paul states that he has “anger issues” especially directed at “women”.  At break, five of the females leave and do not return to the group. Paul breaks down in the group and states that he is going to kill himself when he gets home.

Write a brief paragraph here that provides a transition from the background information about the client to your treatment plan for the case. Use guidelines in Counseling Children, pages 112–113.

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Please can you do this Unit 3 Discussion 1 & 2 and Unit 3 Assignment 1? $40.00 Due (Monday) 7/23/2018.

Unit 3 Discussion 1 & 2 and Unit 3 Assignment 1? $40.00 Due (Monday) 7/23/2018.

Unit 3 Discussion 1

Legal Issues in Counseling Children and Teens

Based on your experience in a counseling-related field or another professional arena, identify an incident with specific legal issues associated with the provision of counseling services to children and adolescents and describe how they were handled. Briefly describe what happened, changing specifics as needed to protect confidentiality. Based on what you have learned in Counseling Children, Morelen and Schaffer’s 2012 article, linked in Resources, and your review of the laws in your state, how well were the issues handled? What are the best practices for handling these issues?

Resources

· Discussion Participation Scoring Guide.

· Understanding Clinical, Legal, and Ethical Issues in Child Emotional Maltreatment.

Unit 3 Discussion 2

Ethical Issues in Counseling Children and Teens [u03d2] Unit 3 Discussion 2

Overview

For this discussion, briefly describe the hypothetical case that you have created (or are creating) for your Unit 3 assignment. Then, identify one potential ethical and one potential legal concern that you would have in mind, as you began counseling with this child or adolescent. Explain the course of action you would take in the first session in order to prevent legal or ethical problems by communicating clearly with your client while also building rapport. Use the course readings for this week to support your conclusions.

Example Scenario

As an example, consider this scenario: Kendra, a 16-year-old student, has been encouraged by her best friend to come see you. Kendra called to make the appointment herself. She lives alone with her mother who works the night shift at a local club. Kendra says she hopes that her mother won’t have to know about her counseling because “she’s always tired,” and Kendra’s concern has to do with a boyfriend her mother dislikes. Kendra has never actually met the boyfriend; he is someone she connected with online who she’s been texting. Recently, the texts have become very sexual and Kendra has begun feeling uncomfortable, although she also finds the relationship exciting.

Based on your readings this week, what would be one potential ethical issue that would be foremost in your mind as you begin counseling Kendra? What would be one potential legal issue? How would you handle these concerns when Kendra comes in?

Discussion Instructions

Now, briefly describe the hypothetical case you have created (or are creating) for this unit’s assignment.

· Identify one potential ethical issue and one legal issue that would be foremost in your mind as you begin counseling your client.

· Identify your plan for addressing those issues.

· Cite the appropriate section of the ACA Code of Ethics, linked in Resources, and at least one other relevant resource.

Post your case to the discussion area.

Resources

· Discussion Participation Scoring Guide.

· American Counseling Association: Ethics and Professional Standards.

[u03a1] Unit 3 Assignment 1

Unit 3 Assignment 1

Conceptualizing a Case

Developmental, Sociocultural, Ethical, and Diagnostic Considerations in Counseling Children and Adolescents

Due: End of Unit 3.

Mental Health Counselors of children and adolescents often need to communicate with appropriate individuals, such as supervisors, parents, or other counselors, about the basic facts and issues surrounding their clients. Creating a factual summary is the first step in the building a case conceptualization, diagnosis, and treatment plan.

Your assignment is to develop a case description, analysis, and treatment plan for a hypothetical case. You will first create a background sketch for your hypothetical case, following the example below. Next, you will present your analysis of the developmental, cultural, and legal aspects of the case. Then you will present your diagnosis and treatment plan for the case.

Your case description and treatment plan should be succinct in addressing each area. Counselors must prepare reports that summarize many details accurately but briefly.

Use the Conceptualizing a Case Template, linked in Resources, to develop your treatment plan.

This template will provide the correct format and structure of a brief background sketch, case analysis, and initial treatment plan.

The headings for this assignment are listed below and in the template that you will use to prepare this assignment.

Use a minimum of 5 references, including your textbook.

Your paper should be 5–6 pages in length, not including the title page or reference page. No abstract is necessary.

Background Sketch Components

You will first complete a background sketch for a child or adolescent client whom you might serve. (Use the background sketch you developed in Unit 1, with any revisions you made after peer and instructor feedback.) The background sketch will be brief. There are many examples of background sketches in the Counseling Children textbook, in the introductions to the case studies offered throughout (for example, see page 195). Here is another example:

Identification of the Problem

Sari [hypothetical name] is a 10-year-old girl in the fifth grade at Middle Valley Elementary. She is referred to counseling because the after-school staff report that she has become withdrawn recently, refusing offers for homework help or invitations from friends to join in activities.

Individual and Background Information

Academic: Staff report that Sari was previously proud of her report cards and showed them to the after school tutors. However, she would not talk about her most recent report card and was seen tearfully tearing it into pieces.

Family and Culture: Sari’s family immigrated from Turkey when she was a toddler. She is the oldest of three children, who are also in the after school program. Her mother works in the kitchen of Middle Valley Hospital. Her father drives a cab. Her parents alternate picking up the children. Sari expresses pride for her Turkish heritage, and mentions her family’s involvement with a local Turkish cultural group.

Physical: Sari is of average height for her age. She has a lean body mass and shows no signs of puberty. She rarely misses school due to illness. She has an untreated port-wine stain birthmark on one cheek and ear; she attempts to cover it with her hair style.

Social: Sari is athletic and loved playing outdoor games until her recent withdrawal from activities she previously enjoyed. She was frequently chosen by her peers to be a team member, and has several causal friendships, though she spends much of her time checking on her younger siblings in the program.

Case Conceptualization Components

Next, you will analyze aspects of this case for features that will need to be considered in deciding how to best assist your client.

Developmental Analysis

Briefly apply concepts—from Piaget’s theory, Selman, Erikson, and what is known about development of the brain and physical maturation—to your case (refer to Chapter 2 of Counseling Children for a review of developmental theories). Is your child or adolescent on track developmentally, or off track in some domains?

Cultural Analysis

Briefly highlight the cultural considerations that might be important for understanding and counseling your case (refer to Chapter 2 of Counseling Children for counseling considerations for children from diverse cultures).

Ecomap Assessment of Stressors and Supports

Summarize your Ecomap assessment to analyze how family, community, cultural, and societal factors contribute to the stressors and supports in your client’s life. Present your evaluation of how your child or adolescent client is supported by prevention, intervention, and education efforts or programs and networks that promote mental health, or how he or she experiences stress from the absence of support.

Legal and Ethical Issues Plan

Briefly articulate a legal and ethical issues plan, presenting the steps you will take to establish an ethical counseling relationship with your child or adolescent client. Identify potential ethical or legal issues that could arise with this client, and briefly describe how you will handle each of these, referencing specific laws and ethical codes (you may use the issues you have identified for the second discussion of this unit, after considering peer and instructor feedback).

Treatment Plan Components

Create a treatment plan for your case, including a preliminary diagnosis (use the diagnostic process you practiced in the first Unit 2 discussion). Your treatment plan should succinctly address these sections, also outlined in the Counseling Children text (pages 103–104):

Problem Identification.

Problem Definition.

Goal Development.

Measurable Outcomes.

Creating Interventions.

Diagnosing.

Reference

Henderson, D. A., & Thompson, C. L. (2016). Counseling children (9th ed.). Boston, MA: Cengage.

Resources

· Conceptualizing a Case Scoring Guide.

· Conceptualizing a Case Template.

· APA Style and Format.

· Jongsma, Peterson, McInnis, and Bruce’s e-book, The Adolescent Psychotherapy Treatment Planner.

· Jongsma, Peterson, McInnis, and Bruce’s e-book, The Child Psychotherapy Treatment Planner.

Template

Developmental, Sociocultural, and Ethical and Diagnostic Considerations in Counseling Children and Adolescents

Author First Name Middle Initial Last Name

Capella University

 

Developmental, Sociocultural, and Ethical, and Diagnostic
Considerations in Counseling Children and Adolescents

This is your paper’s introduction. Note, however, that it does not have a heading; its position at the beginning of the body of the paper implies that it is the introduction. Instead, include the title of your paper centered at the top of the page, not bolded; it is not considered a heading. In the body of your paper, indent the first line of each paragraph. As always, use double spaced, 12-point Times New Roman font. For the purposes of this assignment, simply replace this text with a brief paragraph in your own words stating that this paper presents a background sketch of a hypothetical child client, the results of an ecomap assessment to analyze how their family, community, cultural, and societal contexts contribute to their supports and stressors, the ethical and legal issues that could impact the case, and the steps you will take to ensure ethical treatment of your case.

Background Sketch for Case: [Hypothetical Name]

Identification of the Problem

Briefly review why this child or adolescent is being referred to you.

Individual and Background Information.

Academic: Include one paragraph about academic information relevant to your case.

Family and Culture: Include one or two paragraphs about the family of your case and their culture.

Physical: Include one paragraph about the maturational, physical, and pubertal information about your case, as applicable.

Social: Include one paragraph about the social area of your case, including friendship groups and social adjustment or challenges.

Developmental Analysis

Briefly apply concepts from Piaget’s theory, Selman, Erikson, and what is known about development of the brain and neurological system and physical maturation to your case.

Cultural Analysis

Briefly highlight the cultural considerations that might be important for understanding and counseling your case.

Ecomap Assessment of Stressors and Supports

Summarize your assessment of the stressors and supports that are impacting your child or adolescent, from nearby influences such as family and neighborhood factors to more distant influences such as prevention or education programs or societal factors.

Legal and Ethical Issues Plan

Articulate a brief legal and ethical issues plan that presents the steps you will take to establish an ethical counseling relationship with your child or adolescent client. Identify potential ethical and legal issues that could arise with this client, and describe how you would handle each of these, referencing specific laws and ethical codes.

Treatment Plan for Case

Write a brief paragraph here that provides a transition from the background information about the client to your treatment plan for the case. Use guidelines in Counseling Children, pages 112–113.

Problem Identification

Write a brief description here, identifying the problem.

Problem Definition

Write a brief description here, defining the problem; use the DSM-5 for symptom and problem terminology.

Goal Development

Write a brief description here, outlining the goal of counseling.

Measurable Outcomes

Write a brief description here of outcomes that can be measured.

Proposed Interventions

Write a brief counseling plan here.

Preliminary DSM-5 Diagnosis

State your preliminary diagnosis here, stating how your client meets the criteria for a particular diagnosis, and including specifiers for the disorder, if applicable. You may diagnose more than one disorder.

References

(Include at least five sources that you used in your assignment. You may include your textbook. The reference below provides an example citation for an article.)

Author, A. A., Author, B. B., & Author, C. C. (year). Title of article. Title of Periodical, volume#(issue#), xx–xx.

Provide at least one specific example of an element or elements of your personality that are explained by your selected model.

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For your Final Paper, you will identify and synthesize the concepts and constructs of personality theory that you find to be the most accurate and appropriate in explaining personality and development.

Throughout the course, you have engaged, probed, picked apart, and evaluated the thinking of a large number of theorists who wrote during different historical periods from different disciplinary, paradigmatic, and ideological perspectives. Based on different realms of human experience, the theorists moved toward a fundamental understanding of a single topic and fundamental question: What is the human personality, and, more generally, what makes us what we are as individuals and as a species?

You have already begun this task by identifying what you feel are the most compelling concepts in the first four of the seven theoretical models covered in the course during the Week 3 Primary Concepts assignment. You will continue that process in the first part of this Personality Theory Final Paper by identifying what you find to be the most compelling concepts in the remaining three models. Then you will continue that assessment by synthesizing the concepts of personality that

  • Best explains the roles of heredity and environment.
  • Provide the best means of assessing personality.
  • Provide the best theoretical explanation for your personal journey of personality development.
  • Provide the most useful applications for you as a scholar and professional.

Your paper should be organized according to the following scheme, with sections organized under the following APA-formatted headings. Address the following specifications for each heading. (For instructions on writing proper headings and other document elements, see the Ashford University Writing Center’s APA Style Elements (Links to an external site.).)

In your paper, include the following:

Introduction

Start your paper with a general, academic introduction to the topic of theories of personality.

  • Explain what you plan to cover and the direction your paper will take.

Major Concepts

In Week 3, you identified what you considered to be the most important concepts from the psychodynamic, the neurobiological, the cognitive, and the trait models of personality. In this section of the Final Paper, you will present a concept from each of the remaining three models— behavioral, interpersonal, and self-psychology models.

For each of these three concepts:

  • Apply a proper APA heading to separate the section.
  • Describe the concept.
  • Identify the theorist associated with the concept.
  • Provide a rationale for why the selected concept is the most applicable from that model.

Keep in mind that the object of this assignment is to identify and discuss a specific concept from each model and not to focus on just one model or provide overviews of the models per se.

The Roles of Heredity and Environment

In this class, we have explored the roles heredity, the environment, and epigenetics play in the development of personality. In this section,

  • Synthesize your views on how heredity and the environment affect personality development.

Assessment in Personality Theory

In this section, reflect on the various methods for assessing personality that has been presented in this course, and select one that you feel is most useful.

  • Describe briefly the assessment method that you believe is most useful in assessing personality.
  • Justify your selection of this method.

Personal Applications

In this section of the paper, reflect on your personality, and address the following items:

  • Identify which of the seven models best explains your developmental journey.
  • Provide at least one specific example of an element or elements of your personality that are explained by your selected model.

Career Applications

In this section, consider how you can use the knowledge from this course as a professional, addressing the following item:

  • Explain how you can use the knowledge you have gained about personality development to help achieve your career goals.

Conclusion

Provide a brief conclusion, addressing the following:

  • Summarize the ideas presented in your synthesis of, and reflection on, personality theory.

The Personality Theory Final Paper

  • Must be eight to ten double-spaced pages in length (not including title and references pages) and must use proper APA headings with all document and citation formatting according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center’s APA Style (Links to an external site.)
  • Must include a separate title page with the following:
    • Title of paper
    • Student’s name
    • Course name and number
    • Instructor’s name
    • Date submitted
  • Must utilize academic voice. See the Academic Voice (Links to an external site.) resource for additional guidance.
  • Must include an introduction and conclusion paragraph. Your introduction paragraph needs to end with a clear thesis statement that indicates the purpose of your paper.
    • For assistance on writing Introductions & Conclusions (Links to an external site.) as well as Writing a Thesis Statement (Links to an external site.), refer to the Ashford Writing Center resources.
  • Must use at least six scholarly sources in addition to the course text and other required sources to support your conclusions, including at least one scholarly source for each substantive section.
    • The Scholarly, Peer-Reviewed, and Other Credible Sources (Links to an external site.) table offers additional guidance on appropriate source types. If you have questions about whether a specific source is appropriate for this assignment, please contact your instructor. Your instructor has the final say about the appropriateness of a specific source for a particular assignment.
    • To assist you in completing the library research required for this assignment, view this Ashford University Library Quick ‘n’ Dirty (Links to an external site.) tutorial, which introduces the Ashford University Library and the research process and provides some library search tips.
  • Must document any information used from sources in APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center’s Citing Within Your Paper (Links to an external site.)
  • Must include a separate reference page that is formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center. See the Formatting Your References List (Links to an external site.) resource in the Ashford Writing Center for specifications.

Carefully review the Grading Rubric for the criteria that will be used to evaluate your assignment.

Search the Internet and/or the Walden University Library to select an additional scholarly article related to at least one of the two cultures and the one additional factor that mark adulthood to support your Discussion post.

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Discussion 1: Defining Adulthood

4-5 paragraphs. How cultures define adulthood vary dramatically. For some, adulthood may be religious celebration milestones and for others it may be based on a physical change or event. In still others, it may be based on legal factors such as, chronological age or marital status.

For this Discussion, you will explore cultures and factors that establish adulthood. Also, you will examine the value and limitations of utilizing indicators to define adulthood.

To Prepare
  • From your Learning Resources, select two cultures in relation to one factor that may mark adulthood.
  • Search the Internet and/or the Walden University Library to select an additional scholarly article related to at least one of the two cultures and the one additional factor that mark adulthood to support your Discussion post.

Post, describing the two cultures in relation to the one factor you selected that may mark adulthood. Next, explain one potential value and one potential limitation related to the factor that define adulthood in both cultures you selected.

Note: Be sure to support your postings and responses with specific references to the Learning Resources. Use proper APA format and citations.

Read your colleagues’ postings.

2-3 paragraphs Respond to at least two of your colleagues’ posts and explain one additional value and one additional limitation to the factor they presented.

Note:Be sure to support your postings and responses with specific references to the Learning Resources. Use proper APA format and citations.

Required Resources 

Hollis-Sawyer, L., & Dykema-Engblade, A. (2016). Diversity among older women. In L. Hollis-Sawyer & A. Dykema-Engblade, Women and positive aging: An international perspective (pp. 146-166). San Diego, CA: Elsevier.

Janike, B. R., & Traphagen, J. W. (2009). Transforming the cultural scripts for aging and eldercare in Japan. In J.

Sokolovsky, (Ed.), The cultural context of aging: Worldwide perspectives (3rd ed., pp. 240–258). Westport, CT: Praeger.

Norwood, F. (2013). A window into Dutch life and death: Euthanasia and end-of-life in the public-private space of home. In C. Lynch, & J. Danely, (Eds.), Transitions and transformations: Cultural perspectives on aging and the life course. New York, NY: Berghahn Books.

Online Readings                

                                              

Gire, J. (2014). How death imitates life: Cultural influences on conceptions of death and dying. Online Readings in Psychology and Culture, 6(2), pp.1–22.

Journal Articles

Jensen, L. A., & Arnett, J. J. (2012). Going global: New pathways for adolescents and emerging adults in a changing world. Journal of Social Issues, 68(3), 473–492.

https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-4560.2012.01759.x

Patton, G. C., Sawyer, S. M., Santelli, J. S., Ross, D. A., Afifi, R., Allen, N. B., …. Viner, R. M. (2016, June 11). Our future: A Lancet commission on adolescent health and wellbeing. The Lancet,387(10036), 2423–2478. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(16)00579-1