Describe the role of wellness in the family life cycle Discuss how concepts of wellness and prevention might be applied to the family described in your example.

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As a professional counselor, your ability to recognize the complexity of relationships within marriages, couples, and families is vital for effective counseling. Understanding the concept of family and the components of both healthy and unhealthy family and relationship functioning throughout their life cycles will help you recognize your personal attributes as a counselor or potential counselor. Equally important for effective counseling is the examination of your own personal experiences and beliefs, and the impact of these experiences and beliefs on your views of relationships and family functioning.
In this Assignment, you will examine the life cycles of families, the meaning of family, and the concept of wellness in the family life cycle. You will explain how you apply these concepts when working with couples and families.
Write your paper on the family life cycle using the instructions below as a guide:
• Explain your understanding of the family life cycle as it applies to counselors working with couples and families.
• Provide an example of a family in which a counselor with expertise in marriage, couple, and family counseling would apply his or her understanding of the family life cycle.
• Describe the role of wellness in the family life cycle Discuss how concepts of wellness and prevention might be applied to the family described in your example.

Describe licensure requirements you intend on seeking in the state or locale in which you intend to practice.

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Professional counselors with expertise in marriage, couples and family counseling, like other professional counselors, adhere to standards that guide and inform their practice. Accrediting bodies like the Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs (CACREP) developed guidelines for professional preparation. These guidelines are tied to specific knowledge, practice, and skill areas that include set information on coursework, professional experience, client contact hours, and supervision. Often, these accreditation standards are used to develop requirements for professional licensure. Because marriage, couple, and family counseling is a specialty area for professional counseling, licensure requirements are often the same as or similar to other areas of professional counseling.
In addition to licensure, counselors often seek professional credentials to enhance their credibility with clients, gain recognition as a specialist in a given area, and to demonstrate adherence to a set of professional standards. Similar to other areas of counseling, certifications exist that are specific to marriage, couple, and family counseling.
According to the International Association of Marriage and Family Counselors (IAMFC), a division of the American Counseling Association (ACA), professional counselors with expertise in marriage, couples, and family counseling practice in a variety of settings, including independent practice, community mental health agencies, managed care organizations, hospitals, employee assistance programs, and houses of worship. In these settings, professional counselors with expertise in marriage, couple, and family counseling may provide any of the following services:
• Assessment and diagnosis
• Individual, couples, and family counseling
• Prevention programs and parent education programs
• Crisis management
• Multi-couple or multi-family groups
In this Assignment, you will consider licensure requirements demanded by your state or locale in order to practice as a professional counselor with expertise in couples and family counseling. In addition, you examine various marriage, couple, and family certifications that are available through professional organizations. Finally, you consider possible practice challenges that you may encounter.
Write your paper on professional preparation, credentials, and scope of practice, using the instructions below as a guide:
• Explain your understanding of the scope of practice of a counselor with expertise in marriage, couple, and family counseling.
• Discuss how professional counseling organizations germane to counseling with an expertise in marriage, couple, and family counseling such as the International Association for Marriage and Family Counselors (IAMFC) might support your professional practice pursuits.
• Describe licensure requirements you intend on seeking in the state or locale in which you intend to practice.
• Describe the licensure process/procedure in your state or locale as it pertains to counselors with expertise in marriage, couple, and family counseling.
• Describe at least one certification that might enhance your practice as a counselor with an expertise in marriage, couple, and family counseling.
• Describe what might be a challenge to obtaining licensure in the state or locale in which you intend to practice. Potential challenges might include lack of required supervision and/or lack of opportunities to complete post-masters clinical experience hours

Complete 1 group and at least 8 weeks of individual counseling to gain good days and be able to go home sooner. You need to utilize evidenced-based therapy to illustrate progress not only to your assigned caseload but also to retain your job.

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You are a counselor in a new youth facility at a local prison. All of the youths are on the mental health caseload. You are in charge of running at least one group therapy and are also in charge of your own caseload in which you engage them in individual counseling. The youths on your caseload need to successfully complete 1 group and at least 8 weeks of individual counseling to gain good days and be able to go home sooner. You need to utilize evidenced-based therapy to illustrate progress not only to your assigned caseload but also to retain your job.
Your boss asks you to see an adolescent client who is considered to be a high risk. This client is a regular at the local mental health crisis unit. He threatens suicide, but his cuts are superficial and not life threatening.
Address the following:
• Give 2 types of evidenced-based therapeutic interventions open to this client, and explain how you would utilize them. What type of therapy do you suggest as the best recommendation for this client to attend?
• Provide a description of 2 benefits and 1 drawback that each evidenced-based therapeutic intervention provides. How might your client react to this assistance, and how might you convince him to try therapy?

What are some of the steps that Tower Associates can take to help mitigate and manage some of the risk involved if they proceed with the transaction, such as: foreign exchange risk, sovereign risks, liquidity risks, market risks, insolvency, and credit risks?

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1. Are there any hidden assumptions or price rigidities in the country or countries that might inhibit market force indicators from revealing the true economic health of the country, thereby either preventing government policy actions from correcting the problems or otherwise making them ineffective and counterproductive?

2.What is the current domestic and international economic situation of each country relative to the benchmark performance measures for that country?

3.Is the country currently following appropriate economic policies from a domestic as well as an international perspective? Provide supporting justification for your answer.

4.When the tools of country risk analysis are applied to the different countries being analyzed, which country is more likely to have what kind of crisis and why?

5.If you recommend that Tower Associates proceed with a transaction in one of the selected countries, which strategy would you suggest they follow: a foreign exchange hedging strategy or a country risk crisis management strategy? Explain and justify your recommendation.

6.What are some of the steps that Tower Associates can take to help mitigate and manage some of the risk involved if they proceed with the transaction, such as: foreign exchange risk, sovereign risks, liquidity risks, market risks, insolvency, and credit risks?