Category: Career and Professional development

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Attend the Career Services Live Lesson or watch the recording.
Write a two-paragraph, double-spaced reflection (minimum of 200 words) explaining what you learned and how you plan to utilize Career Services.
Include the attendance code with your reflection.
Check your writing for proper spelling, grammar, punctuation, and word usage.
If you were not able to attend the live session the link to review the call is below. The resources are in the Files section of the course. 
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Research Paper about the sleep difficulties that first responders have thus leading to lack of work ethic. Paper should be 4-5 pages long double spaced with and introduction paragraph, three body paragraphs. and a conclusion 

Select a mentor or connection for a 30 min informational interview. I encourage you to identify a professional mentor or connection who has information about a position or industry that aligns with your future career goal (or a graduate program or an internship or an entrepreneurial venture
Please attach your questions along with this assignment.
Conduct the interivew and make sure you are able to record the interview (video or audio). Please test the audio to ensure it is clear and loud enough to be understood. Be sure to introduce yourself
I already have the script. needed to complete the auduio recording

Write an essay of at least 500 words based on published literature supporting Career and Self-Development as a skill.
To meet the expectation of this assignment you will need two citations within your paper, both from a published scholarly journal. 
Some ideas to focus your research toward:
What do organizations, professionals, and academic institutions say about this skill?
What are the strategies to develop and hone this skill?
What industries especially value this skill?
Why do you want to develop this skill?
The Skill
CRITICAL THINKING
Identify and respond to needs based upon an understanding of situational context and logical analysis of relevant information.
SAMPLE BEHAVIORS
Make decisions and solve problems using sound, inclusive reasoning and judgment.
Gather and analyze information from a diverse set of sources and individuals to fully understand a problem.
Proactively anticipate needs and prioritize action steps.
Accurately summarize and interpret data with an awareness of personal biases that may impact outcomes.
Effectively communicate actions and rationale, recognizing the diverse perspectives and lived experiences of stakeholders.
Multi-task well in a fast-paced environment.

See Appendix 2 for Rubric 
The goal of this paper is to help you integrate your key lessons gleaned across the semester with professional counseling literature, class text and class discussions. You need to use both primary (e.g., peer-reviewed journal articles) and secondary (e.g., text books and websites) conceptual and empirical literature (a minimum of 6 sources). Paper should be 10-15 pages in length, written in third person, and inclusive of an APA 7th ed.Title Page, Abstract, Conclusion, and Reference sections ((i.e., no more than 15 pages total). You can select 2 to 4 counseling theories in the creation of your own integrative theory. You are to address the following areas in your paper, each bullet should be indicated by a clear heading within the body of your paper: 
Part I: 
• This paper provides a self-evaluation of the counselor-in-training (CIT) life (i.e., overview from birth, educational progression leading to graduate school at Brockport, successes and challenges) 
• Identifies the CITs foundational assumptions (beliefs) about human nature, change, the interplay among thoughts, feelings, behaviors, and the influence of context and define mental health and pathology. 
• Identifies and describe how the CIT believes problems develop or how people get stuck (e.g., how 
wounding/problems occur) and how people change (e.g., how healing happens). 
Part II: 
• This paper addresses theories of multicultural counseling and identity development, theories of individual and family development, theories of personality development, and theories and models of counseling (including clinical mental health counseling) where the CIT identifies counseling theories (2-4) with which they align (here CIT provides a brief background/history of the theories, foundational content, and theorist) and explain why they identified those theories. 
For each theoretical framework selected in the bullet above, you must demonstrate knowledge of key overall elements of the theory, i.e., define terms, how the theory is used in counseling. 
• This paper addresses counselor characteristics and behaviors where the CIT proposes how they will integrate their beliefs (Part I) with these theories and provide a rationale for how they fit or do not fit, and specify how their theoretical approach will be used in college, mental health, or school settings. 
Part III: 
• This paper addresses how the CIT develops a personal model of counseling that: 
Examines the effects of power and privilege for counselors and clients. 
Focuses on eliminating barriers, prejudices, and processes of oppression 
Promotes resilience, optimum development, and wellness 
Captures multicultural and pluralistic characteristics of clients (including cultural factors relevant to clinical mental health counseling) 
Provides a systems approach to conceptualizing clients 
Delineates interviewing, counseling and case conceptualizing skills (including intake interview, mental status evaluation, biopsychosocial history, mental health history, and psychological assessment for treatment planning and caseload management for mental health counselors) 
Incorporates techniques and interventions for prevention and treatment (of a broad range of mental health issues by mental health counselors); and/or including techniques of personal/social counseling in school  settings and strategies to promote equity in student achievement and college access (for school counselors) 
Allows differing abilities and differentiated interventions. 
The CIT will incorporate the information in Part III above by discussing how they integrate the theories selected in Part II into their (single) Integrative Counseling Approach (feel free to name and refer to your approach: e.g., Harrichand’s Integration Theory and use the acronym: e.g., HIT). At this point onwards you should not be referring to any of the individual theories selected in Part II above. Instead you should only be referencing your newly developed theory.  
For College, Mental Health, and School Counseling Students address: Assessment, Case Conceptualization, Diagnosis, Treatment Planning, Treatment and Aftercare as they relate to your perceived population. 
Provide a brief case study example (outlining the areas in the previous sections in the bullet above) of how the CIT’s Integrative Theory can be applied in their expected counseling setting: College, Mental Health, School.  
• The CIT considers their approach’s strengths and weaknesses, and its applicability with diverse clients, including: ethnically, sexually, intellectually, level of dysfunction, and level of compliance. 
• The paper concludes by considering the impact of the CIT’s theoretical approach in their role as a professional counselor. 
I want to be come a drug/ alcohol mental health counselor working with individuals just out of rehab:
Person centered and CBT theory ( allowed to use more than 2) If you find another theory that works – great
I have to create my own theory – Name is Zach’s Theory – 
Case Study : 29 year old male, got hurt at age 21 at work prescribed oxycontin. Had surgery to fix his back ccontiuned a high dose of oxycontin, Contstant pain doctor kicked him off prescribed medication and he turned to street drugs becaue he was addicted. Ended up losing job, selling things in house for drugs and his gf kicked him out he is currently homeless. He just completed rehab. 
I need to add how he ended up in rehab, the case theory is something I made up. Please feel free to add to it.

Your final paper is to develop a group plan for your area of emphasis: college, mental health or school. You are to develop either a psychoeducational or counseling group.  The group you write about should be created specifically for this course, utilizing the group principles as outlined in your textbook and other readings.  Groups you may have developed for other courses will not count for this assignment.  Listed below in the course calander are the major topics that are to be addressed when proposing a group plan. Where there is overlap, a specific point only needs to be made once.  Please refer to the Group Final Paper Rubric and Writing Rubric and the outline below for details on how to write your final paper. 
Introduction 
Brief overview of population, issues(s), setting, intended outcomes, theory/approach, and group structure 
Literature review 
Literature that supports your plan for working with this population, issue(s), and setting, using your intended theory and structure (5-6 sources related to your specific population, issue(s), and setting) 
You may need to be creative in creating connections among these where none exist in the literature – we will discuss this point more in class 
Group plan 
Group goals/outcomes based on population, issue, and setting 
Group structure  
Psychoeducational – session-by-session plan 
Counseling – overall goals/topics to be addressed 
For both 
Clearly tying goals to the structure 
Clearly describing how you will start and terminate the process 
Recruiting, screening, and informed consent 
Include referenced to literature/texts to justify 
Assessment and evaluation 
Ongoing – process evaluation 
At the end – outcome evaluation 
Ethical and legal considerations 
This can be a separate section, or woven throughout 
Leadership 
Particular competencies (content and process) needed by the leader 
Plan to build competencies if not already there 
Specific skill, strategies, techniques that will be particularly important 
Not all basic skills need to be addressed – just ones that will be most important 
Also include theory-specific strategies/skills 
Working with individuals just out of rehab trying to stay sober – the plan is to keep them sober, learn how to live a sober life again
Challenges include – living in the same area, working the same job.
My age group is 18-24
10-12 sessions, meeting twice a week
Using person centered theory and CBT theory to run groups
An intake assessment before they join the group
An assessment after each session
I need an abstract attached laying out each group’s plan