Within this paper indicate your preferences regarding future professional goals describing insights that you have gained about yourself (based on this course) and how you hope to apply the lessons and insights in your future role as a reha professional. Please include the following elements: Personal Counseling Definition: What is your definition of counseling? Give a clear, concise definition in your own words. Counseling Goal(s): What do you consider to be the most important goal(s) of counseling? When is Counseling Needed: How do you know someone needs counseling? Define counseling terms like maladjustment or dysfunction according to your theory. Achieving Progress: What constitutes progress within your system of counseling? The Counseling Relationship: What do you consider to be the essential characteristics of an effective relationship between a counselor and a client? The Counselors Role: Define the counselors role as it fits into your counseling theory. Working with persons with a disability. Discuss how your theory is applicable to persons with disabilities. Multicultural Perspectives: Discuss how your theory addresses cultural differences among clients. Application across life-spans: Discuss how your theory addresses cultural differences among clients. Limitations of your Theory: Specify and explain the limitations of your theory of counseling. The paper should be approximately 7 typed full double spaced pages OF TEXT (THIS MEANS TEXT so 7 pages of text does not include your cover page, abstract, or reference pages).You are required to use APA format and you should provide support for any opinions or strong assertions made in your paper. You must provide a bibliography at the end of the paper of a minimum of ten (10) references (articles, books, websites, etc.) that have had a significant influence on your personal beliefs, values, goals, and interests in counseling. These references should not be entirely from one source for example, all references should not come solely from the web; specifically, only five references may be web resources, five references should be from journal articles in the scientific literature from counseling, human services, etc. I
Hide
