Write a Therapy Plan (Counseling Psychology)

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timer Asked: May 1st, 2017

Question Description

Counseling Psychology Assignment. (Help needed ASAP to complete by May 2 6pm EST)

OVERVIEW

The final project for this course is the creation of a therapy plan. Students will select a case study and design a therapy plan using one of the theoretical orientations covered in the course. The final product represents an authentic demonstration competency because students will be able to apply their counseling knowledge in a real-world manner.

OBJECTIVES

To successfully complete this project, you will be expected to apply what you have learned in this course and should include several of the following course objectives:

1. Explain the theory, process, and techniques of helping

2. Apply knowledge about the personality theory; the APA ethical code; and social and ethical issues/concerns related to the field of counseling

3. Practice effective attending skills and helping responses

4. Express the core conditions for effective helping: empathy, positive regard, and genuineness

5. Apply theory and learned techniques in role-played helping situations

6. Demonstrate critical, analytical, and self-assessment skills

In the paper, you will address all of the following:

  • Identify a case study that you would like to design a therapy plan for.
  • Discuss how this case study would be addressed in therapy according to your chosen theoretical orientation. Be sure to include specific concepts related to your chosen theory. Avoid broad, general concepts that are not related to a specific theory.
  • Identify possible goals and interventions appropriate for the chosen orientation.
  • Include a general description of patient and his or her issue, as well as the theoretical orientation chosen to address the issue. Also, the: Client History and Therapy Plan should be a complete, polished artifact.

    THERAPY APPROACH

    For this assignment, you will choose one of the following theoretical orientations as well as corresponding concepts to treat the case study:

  • Psychoanalytic Therapy using concepts such as structure of personality, the unconscious, role of anxiety and ego-defense mechanisms, and stage of development. Include the role of transference and countertransference in the therapy process. Some techniques that can be included are free association, interpretation, dream analysis, and analysis and interpretation of resistance and transference.
  • Adlerian Therapy using concepts such as social interest, birth order, subjective view of reality, unity of personality. Include the lifestyle assessment as well as the role of the family constellation and early recollections in a lifestyle assessment. Also, include the four phases of the therapeutic process.
  • Existential Therapy using concepts such as self-awareness, freedom and responsibility, intimacy and isolation, meaning in life, death anxiety, and authenticity.
  • Person-Centered Therapy using concepts such as acceptance, self-actualization, openness to experience, clarification, self-trust, reflection, internal locus of evaluation, congruence, growth-promoting climate, incongruence, actualizing tendency, genuineness, unconditional positive regard, and here-and-now experiences.
  • Gestalt Therapy using concepts such as here-and-now, awareness, dealing with unfinished business, contact and resistance to contact, body language, and the role of experiments in therapy the dialogue experiment, playing the projection, “why” questions, reversal technique, the rehearsal experiment, staying with the feeling, empty chair technique, introjection, integration of polarities, projection, blocks to energy, catastrophic expectations, impasse or “stuck point,” here-and-now experiencing, projection screen, figure-formation process, boundary disturbance, and language that denies power.
  • Behavior Therapy using concepts such as systematic desensitization, behavior modification, biofeedback, classical conditioning, operant conditioning, cognitive trend/processes, target behaviors, self-management, reinforcement techniques, self-directed behavior, homework, observational learning, behavioral diary, imitation, self-contracting, goal setting, contingency contracting, relaxation training, social reinforcement, social learning, behavior rehearsal, exposure therapy, modeling, assertion training, feedback, in vivo desensitization, flooding, eye movement desensitization and stress inoculation reprocessing (EMDR), extinction, functional assessment, positive punishment, and negative punishment.
  • Cognitive Behavior Therapy using concepts such as internal dialogue, irrational beliefs, coping-skills program, cognitions, stress inoculation, unconditional “shoulds,” absolutistic “musts,” self-observation, faulty assumptions, automatic thinking, self-evaluating, self-sustaining, simple preferences, schema restructuring, emotional disturbance, cognitive distortions/errors, autosuggestion, schema, self-repetition, “family schemata,” blame, arbitrary inferences, anxiety, A-B-C theory, cognitive triad, Socratic questioning, full acceptance or tolerance, cognitive homework, therapeutic collaboration, disputing irrational beliefs, overgeneralization, changing one’s language, magnification and minimization, rational-emotive imagery, personalization, role playing, labeling and mislabeling, shame-attacking exercises, polarized thinking, alternative interpretations, and self-instructional therapy.

  • REQUIREMENTS:

    Written components of projects must follow APA formatting guidelines, double spacing, 12-point Times New Roman font, one-inch margins, 6-8 pages, and at least five discipline-appropriate citations.


    CLIENT HISTORY

    Nicole is a 41-year old divorced mother of a 9-year old son. She has had a steady job for the past several years in marketing. Even though she has worked for the same, thriving company for over 6 years, she continues to worry about losing her job and being unable to provide for her children. This worry has been troubling her for the past 8 months. Despite her best efforts, she hasn’t been able to shake the negative thoughts.

    She also feels like people at her job are looking at her strangely and sometimes want to cause her harm. She thinks that they are after her job, and this stops her from getting closer to her co-workers. This behavior has called unnecessary attention to her when her manager noted in her annual performance review that she needed to be more sociable and collaborative with her peers in the department.Nicole is usually anxious and tense, and she can be restless and always needing to be doing something, whether needed or not.

    Nicole doesn’t have any friends, and has difficulty making new friends. I suspect Nicole has been hurt in the past and this could be dragging her down.She has difficulty maintaining relationships and decided to walk out on her husband because she felt he was going to cause her harm. Nicole’s son is now being impacted by her behavior in school and with his peers. Nicole has decided it is time to find help.

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