PSY 6092 Assignment: Counseling, Relationship Building, Goals, Treatment Planning
Overview
This assignment will assess your basic counseling skills as they relate to therapeutic relationship building, goal setting, and treatment planning.
Instructions
Create a 5–8 page hypothetical dialogue that occurs during an initial session with a client. In the dialogue, demonstrate the basic counseling skills of empathy, reflective listening, and summarizing. Also, demonstrate your ability to create a good therapeutic relationship through appropriate goal setting and treatment planning in collaboration with your client. After the dialogue, in 5–7 additional pages, justify the way you conducted the session with references to at least 10 peer-reviewed articles or book chapters. Your completed paper should be 10–15 pages, excluding the title page and references pages.
Additional Requirements
- Written communication: Communicate your thoughts in a manner that conveys the overall goals of the assignment and is consistent with APA standards for style and professionalism.
- Length of paper: 10–15 typed double-spaced pages, not including the title page and reference pages.
- References: Include a minimum of 10 references from professional literature. Cite your sources and include full references on the reference pages.
- APA formatting: You must use proper APA style in listing your references. Refer to Evidence and APALinks to an external site. and Academic WriterLinks to an external site. for help.
- Font and font size: Arial, 12 point font.
Competencies Measured
By successfully completing this assignment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and rubric criteria:
- Competency 1: Apply basic counseling skills and therapeutic relationship building skills and procedures.
- Demonstrate the basic counseling skills of empathy, reflective listening, and summarizing.
- Competency 2: Apply advanced counseling and assessment skills.
- Demonstrate the ability to create a good therapeutic relationship through appropriate goal setting and treatment planning in collaboration with a client.
- Competency 4: Communicate in a manner that is scholarly, professional, and consistent with expectations for members of the psychological professions.
- Apply APA formatting to in-text citations and references.
- Adhere to the rules of grammar, usage, and mechanics.
Assignment: Counseling, Relationship Building, Goals, Treatment Planning
Criteria
Demonstrate the basic counseling skills of empathy, reflective listening, and summarizing.
100 to >85 pts DISTINGUISHED
Demonstrates the basic counseling skills of empathy, reflective listening, and summarizing in an authentic and professional manner by being fully present and presenting realistic and thoughtful comments and guidance; provides additional details and strong supporting evidence.
85 to >70 pts PROFICIENT
Demonstrates the basic counseling skills of empathy, reflective listening, and summarizing.
70 to >0 pts BASIC
Inconsistently demonstrates basic counseling skills of empathy, reflective listening, and summarizing.
0 pts NON_PERFORMANCE
Does not demonstrate the basic counseling skills of empathy, reflective listening, or summarizing.
Criteria
Demonstrate the ability to create a good therapeutic relationship through appropriate goal setting and treatment planning in collaboration with a client.
100 to >85 pts DISTINGUISHED
Demonstrates the ability to create an authentic therapeutic relationship through appropriate goal setting and treatment planning in collaboration with a client, being fully present and presenting realistic and thoughtful comments and guidance; provides additional details and strong supporting evidence.
85 to >70 pts PROFICIENT
Demonstrates the ability to create a good therapeutic relationship through appropriate goal setting and treatment planning in collaboration with a client.
70 to >0 pts BASIC
Inconsistently demonstrates the ability to create a therapeutic relationship through goal setting and treatment planning in collaboration with a client.
0 pts NON_PERFORMANCE
Does not demonstrate the ability to create a good therapeutic relationship through appropriate goal setting and treatment planning in collaboration with a client.
Criteria
Apply APA formatting to in-text citations and references.
25 to >21.25 pts DISTINGUISHED
Exhibits strict and nearly flawless adherence to APA formatting of in-text citations and references.
21.25 to >17.5 pts PROFICIENT
Applies APA formatting to in-text citations and references.
17.5 to >0 pts BASIC
Applies APA formatting to in-text citations and references incorrectly and/or inconsistently, detracting noticeably from good scholarship.
0 pts NON_PERFORMANCE
Does not apply APA formatting to in-text citations and references.
Criteria
Adhere to the rules of grammar, usage, and mechanics.
25 to >21.25 pts DISTINGUISHED
Exhibits strict and nearly flawless adherence to the rules of grammar, usage, and mechanics.
21.25 to >17.5 pts PROFICIENT
Adheres to the rules of grammar, usage, and mechanics.
17.5 to >0 pts BASIC
Errors in grammar, usage, and mechanics inhibit readability and comprehension and detract from good scholarship.
0 pts NON_PERFORMANCE
Does not adhere to the rules of grammar, usage, and mechanics.
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