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If counseling is all talk and no action it is not effective counseling. The problem is that clients encounter many barriers in carrying out actions they identify in the counseling process.
Write a 750-1,000-word paper discussing action planning and overcoming barriers for client treatment. Please use headings and include the following in your paper:
- Discuss the principles for effectively implementing an action plan.
- Describe at least five barriers that might interfere with client implementation of the action plans that are created. Include a case example of each barrier.
- Outline a counselor intervention that would help to overcome each barrier.
- A list of your local community resources for different types of needs.
- Outline an aftercare plan that utilized local community resources.
Include at least three scholarly references in your paper.
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This assignment meets the following CACREP Standards:
2.F.5.g. Essential interviewing, counseling, and case conceptualization skills.
2.F.5.i. Development of measurable outcomes for clients.
2.F.5.k. Strategies to promote client understanding of and access to a variety of community-based resources.
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Principles for effectively implementing an action plan
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Barriers to effective implementation of action plan
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Counselor’s intervention to help overcome the barriers
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List of community resources
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Aftercare plan to utilize local community resources
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Running head: EFFECTIVE COUNSELING
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Running head: EFFECTIVE COUNSELING
Principles for effectively implementing an action plan
Goal- Counselors should find and document what the clients would like to happen during
the process. This helps to ensure that the therapy process will happen when both the client and
the therapist are on the same level of understanding.
Active participation- This involves how each of the parties will work to meet the set
goals. For an effective implementation, the client should be more willing to engage in the
process in the same level as the counselor.
Support-Apart from the therapist and the client, the practitioners should identify any
other person/party close to the client who can help support them during the process.
The outcome-the therapist should record the outcomes of the action plan about the client
after some time and inform the client of the progress they have made. In this the experts sho...
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