Developing a Counseling Plan

In the coaching discussion it was not said that my conduct was not meeting expectations, but not allow myself to be in situations where it appears I’m being insubordinate.

Welcome to my counseling practice. The information provided to you will consist of my professional services, background, and business policies. If you have any questions about the information provided in this document or in regards to any other counseling services I provide, please feel free to ask me during our session.

Integrated approach to counseling is when you combined theories to cover the clients’ feelings, cognitive patterns, and behavior (Corey, Theory and Practice of Counseling and Pschotherapy 8e, 2009). Each theory focuses one of these key components of a client but in counseling you need to focus on each of these to fully help a client. The key to integrative counseling is to have multiple theories function in harmony (Corey, Theory and Practice of Counseling and Pschotherapy 8e, 2009).

Cooper, J. B. (2010). Counseling microskills. In B. T. Erford (Ed.), Orientation to the counseling profession: Advocacy, ethics, and essential professional foundations (pp. 148–162). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education.

Rational for the Group: The need for conducting a group counseling program for adolescents is crucial because they are in a very critical stage in their life. Group couselling for

There are many theoretical models of counseling. Often, a diverse approach or the use of several approaches is best for the resolution of problems. I utilize several different theories and strategies in my role as a counselor. However, it is the Individual personal theory and the Family theory model that anchors my orientation to counseling as a Christian counselor.

I believe counseling is a collaborative partnership between client and counselor. Furthermore, this collaborative partnership is built from trust and acceptance of both client and counselor. I hope in conjunction with clients to understand the issues and concerns so to help them tap into their wisdom, creativity, and strengths to meet their current challenges. I believe in a comprehensive perspective through which clients can better comprehend themselves in the framework that our thinking about events can lead to emotional and behavioral upset. Moreover, counselors are to provide a safe environment for clients to explore their challenges and identify ways to move differently in overcoming these challenges.

Rehabilitation for at risk teens has been an ongoing issue that runs deep in certain communities. When kids at young ages are exposed to stress and have to cope early on with dysfunction they are denied the opportunity to mature and conditioned to commit thinking errors that perpetuate a young offender into an adult offender. To find ways to break this cycle John Hubner accounts his time on the Giddings State School Capital Offenders Program and how a group of counselors are able to combine many strategies in rehabilitating young offenders who have committed serious crimes. Young people convicted of serious crimes are often transferred to adult prisons that institutionalize young people to prison life only increasing the likely hood of

Mark’s past made it a possible risk that he could potential go down the path for using illicit substances. For starters his mother had a history of depression, which is not to say that this inherited gene predisposes him to develop the illness but it does increase his chances. Depression has been linked to an increase risk for substance abuse. Secondly, Mark’s mother lost her job when he was sixteen, leading to economical hardship for the family. Lower socioeconomic status is often an open door for increase risk for engaging in substance abuse. Then as a young adult he frequently drank

Mark was a freshman at the University of Colorado, thousands of miles away from his parents who lived in Connecticut. He was the younger sibling to his brother who was also attending college. He had never had any vast problem with the law except for a speeding ticket when he was in high school. Overall, Mark was a well-behaved college student. His parents, Diane and Chris, were a joyous couple throughout their marriage. Chris worked for a computer software company which required him to spend most of his time traveling. Due to this, Diane was a little more attached to her kids then he was. She was one of the first people to notice Mark slowly changing and becoming ill.

Rehabilitation is not “the easy way out” to escape legal punishment, but is rather a key crime prevention strategy, the aim of which is to sway young offenders from their criminal paths. In many cases, rehabilitative techniques are more effective than prison sentences. For instance, David Clayton Thomas, who received a prison sentence at age 15 in Canada, provides a description of the prison, calling it “a predatory, upside-down society where the strong rule, the weak are victimized and the inmate code is all that matters.” Thomas says, “Break the code and you could get killed.” These are not the conditions in which our youth should be expected to restore their moral values! It has also been proven that rates of depression, anxiety disorders, ADHD, and substance abuse- all of which rehabilitation counsellors work with in our young offenders- are higher among youth in custody than among those in the general population. Participation in a rehabilitative program is not a lenient sentence; it is a healing process that is often difficult, but at the end of which the goals of the offender and his/her mentors are hopefully

Robbie J. is a 19 year old African American male and at this time he is currently a freshman at Henderson County University. The client has been referred to this office by his school residential advisor and family doctor. The reason behind this is that the client has not been attending his college classes and has been caught drinking on campus by campus security three times in the past two months. His parents have been advised by the school that if the client doesn’t attend counseling sessions he will be asked to leave and not return back for the following academic school year. The client must attend five sessions and also join an A.A. group.

Scapegoating in families is a book written to shed light on the prevalence of such in today’s family dynamic. While the concept is not new, it is one that is not discussed as much as it should be. Thus the information in this book explores family dynamics in terms of scapegoating in families and identifies patterns of how it works and why it happens. In doing so this literature considers the multidimensional aspects of victims of scapegoating and their dysfunctional families (Pillari, 1991, second cover). In demonstrating that scapegoating is an intergenerational phenomenon Dr. Pillari provides detailed

Mark E. Dean was born on March 02, 1957 in Jefferson City, Tennessee. His mother, Barbara Dean, and father, James Dean witnessed many examples of high intelligence from Mark, at a young age. He built a tractor from scratch with the help of his father whom was a Tennessee Valley Authority Worker, amongst many other things. Mark showed a love for building things from his childhood through his teenage years and into adulthood.

-persistent discomfort with his or her sex or sense of inappropriateness in the gender of that sex.