Explain where your assessment was similar and different from theirs. Provide constructive feedback on your peers’ proposed strategies.

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Considering the traumatic effects of war on men, women, and children, compare the career issues affecting military personnel returning to civilian life to those who have not been in the military. This situation can affect all family members, including children in school, so please include partners and children in this discussion as it relates to career development. As part of your post, include your strategies for advocating for these clients’ career and educational development. These sections in the posting needs to include the headings.

Response Guidelines

Respond to two peers regarding their assessment of the issues facing military personnel returning to civilian life and issues experienced by their families. Explain where your assessment was similar and different from theirs. Provide constructive feedback on your peers’ proposed strategies. I have provided you with two postings from my peers. I need a response with at least one reference to each peers’s posting. I pay $20.00.

 

First peer posting

Military Families

Military personnel returning to civilian life affects not only the military personnel, the return affects the military person’s family, wives, husbands, children, parents, etc. are all affected in this transition.  Common challenges for returning military personnel include; trying to relate to people who are outside of the military who do not understand what the military person has experienced, trying to fit into a family who had adjusted to the military person’s absence, trying to reconnect with their children, who may not have seen their parent for a long time, and trying to reconnect with a unfamiliar society which have different rules than the military. (“Military personnel,” 2012)

Military Jobs and Careers 

Not only do military personnel have to learn to reconnect with their families, they have to learn how find a job, or a career outside of the military.  In the military, there is structure.  Everyone knows their place.  In civilian life, structure takes time to build, the military person has to relearn how to adjust to the uncertainty of outside life. Depending on the age of the military person, or if they had a career in the military, they may have to learn how to complete a resume, apply for a job, and learn how to interview for a job. Military personnel also have to figure out which of their military skills will convert to civilian jobs. Once in the job or career, military people have to understand, in the civilian world, jobs are based on individual progress, where as in the military, assignments are completed as a group effort. (“Military personnel,” 2012)

Advocating for Career and Education Development

The strategies for advocating for military personnel’s career and education development are to help the military personnel gain access to services provided by the military. Although there military social workers who help the military personnel gain access to these services, they are small in number compared to how many military persons who need these benefits, therefor, counselors outside the military need to step up, learn everything they can pertaining to the military and these benefits and help military personnel gain access to these deserved benefits. The military provides preparation counseling checklist, which gives military personnel a chance to have access to information about financial planning, resume writing, interview skills, job counseling and placement services. (Rausch, 2013)  Career counselors for military personnel should understand that military veterans see life from a different perspective.  The military perspective. The military is a culture all on its own and any choices military personnel look at and choose are based on their military experience. Career counselors need to be aware of this perspective and have the tools necessary to help military personnel.  By conceptualizing the experiences of military personnel, career counselors can use the contextual action theory which uses goal setting to help military personnel have a structure, similar to when they were in the military.  This will help military personnel who may feel overwhelmed by all of the steps needed to integrate themselves back into civilian life.

 

References

Common challenges during re-adjustment to civilian life. (2012). Retrieved from http://www.va.gov/vetsinworkplace/docs/em_challengesReadjust.html

Rausch, M. A. (2013, June 1, 2014). Contextual career counseling fortransitioning military veterans. Journal of Employment Counseling. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/j.2161-1920.2014.00044.x

 

 

Second Peer Posting

 

Career Issues

Career issues affecting military personnel returning to civilian life is much different than those who have never been in the military. That is why all branches of the military are required to provide preseperation counseling and to offer transition assistance workshops to aid in returning to civilian life (Clemens & Milsom, 2008). Without transition assistance services and little or no work experience, some enlisted service members reenter civilian life with little direction or understanding of the civilian world of work (Clemens & Milsom, 2008). Career challenges faced by service-members returning to civilian life include loss of purpose. Although a lack of purpose can be a challenge for those who are non-service members, this can be more challenging for service members seeking employment who no longer felt they were contributing to an important communal effort. This feeling can be intensified when veterans can’t find jobs they feel are important and drew upon their skills (Ahern et al., 2015). Another challenge service members face during transition to civilian life is the task of taking care of oneself. Service members have described the environment in terms reminiscent of the care of a family would provide to a child such as holding their hand, a safety net, and comfort. Once many of them transition to civilian life, they don’t understand how much of this works because there was always a system where everything made sense for them (Ahern et al., 2015). This system does not apply to civilian life, one member stated all of sudden he had to take care of himself and make his own decisions.” This dilemma creates a huge challenge for career counselors as it relates to decision making and career development. Transition to civilian life is also challenging for family members of service members. When enlisted, military personnel and their families move 4 times the rate of civilian families. Thus, the frequent moves associated with military service might decrease the likelihood of individual’s knowledge of specific career opportunities through established professional or social networks (Clemens & Milsom, 2008).

Strategies for advocating        

Career counselors can normalize the change from veteran to civilian by employing the skills learned and qualities developed while serving. This approach can help military personnel see their military service as part of their overall, continuous life-long career. Another strategy for advocating is collaborating with other counselors. Career counselors can collaborate with other professionals in their institution or agency, particularly in veteran’s affairs. Career counselors can also establish relationships with college counselors to suggest courses or vocational rehab counselors to develop educational plans for veterans with service connected disabilities (Miles, 2014).

References

Ahern, J., Worthen, M., Masters, J., Lippman, S.A., Ozer, E.J., & Moos, R. (2015). The challenges of

Afghanistan and Iraq veterans transition from military to civilian life and approaches to

reconnection. PLoS ONE, 10(7), 1-13.

Clemens, E.V., Milsom, A.S. (2008). Enlisted service members transition into the civilian world of work:

A cognitive information processing approach. The Career Development Quarterly, 56, 246-256.

Miles, R.A. (2014). Career counseling strategies and challenges for transitioning veterans. Career

       Planning and Adult Development Journal, 30(3), 123-135.

Describe the behavioral, psychological, physical health, and social effects of psychoactive drugs, including alcohol and tobacco, on the consumer and significant others.

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Create a 7-12-slide PowerPoint Presentation about the way drugs   affect the brain. Include the following in your presentation:

  1. Title and reference slide
  2. A description of the     effects of addiction on the components of the central nervous system     and other organs
  3. A description of the process of   neurotransmission
  4. Detailed speaker notes that include what     would be said if giving the presentation in person
  5. At least     two scholarly sources

While APA style is not required for the body of this assignment,   solid academic writing is expected, and documentation of sources   should be presented using APA formatting guidelines, which can be   found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.

This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to   beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for   successful completion.

You are required to submit this assignment to Turnitin. Refer to the   directions in the Student Success Center.

This assignment meets the following CACREP Standard: 

5.C.2.g. Impact of biological and neurological mechanisms on mental health.

This assignment meets the following NASAC Standards:

3) Describe the behavioral, psychological, physical health, and social effects of psychoactive drugs, including alcohol and tobacco, on the consumer and significant others.

4) Recognize the potential for substance use disorders to mimic a variety of medical and psychological disorders, and the potential for medical and psychological disorders to co-exist with addiction and substance abuse.

14) Be familiar with medical and pharmaceutical resources in the treatment of addictive disease and other substance-related disorders.

103) Describe warning signs, symptoms, and the course of addictions.

MUST PASS TURN IT IN WITH LESS 5%

In this Assignment, you will analyze how constructs of the  resilience theory are used to promote resilience in specific crisis  situations

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You have been given the opportunity to examine the resilience theory  as well as explore different crises and see how individuals, families,  and groups experience resilience when faced with these different  situations. In this Assignment, you will analyze how constructs of the  resilience theory are used to promote resilience in specific crisis  situations.

Please respond to the following:

  • Analyze resilience theory by explaining salient points of this theoretical construct.
  • Using the different crises from your textbook (Chapters 10-14),  choose one crisis and identify potential risk factors that could impede  upon a family’s ability to be resilient if faced with this particular  crisis.
  • Using the same crisis from above, discuss strategies a human  services professional could use for this particular crisis that would  promote resilience within the family, individual, or group.
  • In this final part, you need to analyze how the strategies used to  promote resiliency are reflective of at least one construct of the  resilience theory. (Example: pacing reorganization of a family after the  death of a loved one is reflective of the process-oriented perspective  (interaction of individual with environment) of the resilience theory)

Assignment Guidelines

Your Assignment should be a 4–6 page expository essay (not including  the title and reference pages) and should include the following  elements:

  • Title page: Provide your name, title of Assignment, course and section number, and date
  • Body: Answer all the questions in complete sentences and paragraphs
    • Your responses should reflect professional writing standards using  proper tone and language. The writing and writing style should be  correct, accurate, and reflect knowledge of family resilience across the  life span
  • Reference page: Sources in APA format
    • Include a minimum of three scholarly or academic sources and your text to support your responses and conclusions
    • Make sure that all sources listed on the reference page correspond to an in-text citation in the body of your paper.
  • Use Times New Roman 12-point font, double-spaced, and left aligned
  • Use standard 1″ margins on all sides
  • Use APA Formatting and Citation style

Discuss ways in which Lorena’s practices may harm public perceptions of the accountability and credibility of counselors.

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This discussion will require you to draw on several competencies you have acquired as you have progressed through this course.

Consider the following scenario:

Scenario
Imagine that you are on a team of counselors who have been called in to provide consultation for the Common Sense Counseling community agency. On their Web site and on social media sites, Common Sense Counseling describes their approach as “a fresh, new approach to changing lives” having a high rate of success (based on numerous testimonials), and displays friendly pictures of everyone who works there.
You begin your work by interviewing trainees at the site. Your first interview is with Lorena, who is doing an internship at the agency. Lorena mentions that her most interesting client is an Eastern European male named Dominik; he has been in the United States for about a year on a work visa. Dominik sought counseling, because his employer suggested that it might help him get along better at work and improve his ability to complete tasks. Lorena notes that she gets along fine with Dominik but diagnosed him with ADHD, because he was having difficulty sitting still and focusing. She did not refer him for further evaluation.
Lorena expresses confidence that things are going well with the case. Dominik schedules appointments over his lunch hour, so he will not miss work, and he brings extra food to share with Lorena. Lorena wants Dominik to feel welcome and comfortable, so she accepts what he brings. Sometimes they sit outside if the weather is nice, Lorena notes, because she believes that fresh air is good for the well-being of her client. Lorena confides to you that yesterday, Dominik asked if they could meet at a restaurant instead of eating at the office. Lorena says she felt a little funny about this but agreed to it, thinking that it was consistent with the friendly approach of the agency.
Lorena also discloses that recently Dominik sent her a friend request on Facebook, which she accepted. He has only four more sessions of counseling left at the agency, and she hopes they can still be friends after he completes treatment.
When you ask to review Lorena’s case notes, you do not see a supervisor’s signature. Lorena explains that because things are going well, she has not felt the need to staff this case. Apparently, the supervisor agreed that Lorena could exercise her own professional judgment. On the treatment plan, you see that Lorena describes using a directive approach and supplementing it with humor therapy, which she read about on the Internet. She describes this as “common sense counseling,” but she is not able to articulate why it will be helpful for Dominik or discuss the evidence that this approach helps clients get better. When you ask Lorena how she knows her counseling sessions are benefitting Dominik, she says, “Well, he keeps coming back, so it must be worth his while, right?”

Using your text, the Web sites for the ACA and AMHCA ethics codes and the Forester-Miller and Davis (2016) decision making model assigned in this unit’s studies, prepare a draft of your conclusions regarding this case that you will review with your consulting team. In your post, complete the following:

  • Detail at least two potential ethical violations in this case that may harm the client, citing a specific standard of one or more of the ethical codes for clinical mental health counselors.
  • Identify a potential ethical violation that may be harming Lorena.
  • Discuss ways in which Lorena’s practices may harm public perceptions of the accountability and credibility of counselors.
  • Prepare a multi-step plan for the agency to follow in re-aligning its interns’ and supervisors’ clinical work with professional standards.

Support your ideas with citations of readings and Web sites from this course, using APA style.