Lesson 13: Skill Integration, Personal Style, and Review


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Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of this lesson's material, students will be able to:

  • Understanding family theory, developmental theory, human development across the lifespan, counseling theory, and crisis theory (MHRT/C Outcome)
  • Integrate personal strengths and skills from this class into a document that identifies your own personal style of interviewing and counseling

Teaching

Integrity

Along with the basic aspects skills of counseling there are a number of different perspectives that must be taken into consideration when you are treating a person in the context of their situation, development, and circumstances.

When you are working with an individual consider the following perspectives:

Family

  • What is the importance of family to this person?
  • What quality connections to family does this person have?
  • What role do they play in family?
  • What role do family members play in their lives?
  • What function and dysfunction is a part of the family dynamic?

Development

  • How quickly can the person process personal change?
  • How emotionally ready are they to face their "issues"?
  • How intellectually ready are they to face their "issues"?
  • Review the Stages of Recovery outlined in this Psychology Today article

Developmental Psychology

  • What psychosocial stages have they been through and how did they resolve? (click here to review notes on Human Development theory)

Counseling Theory

  • Click HERE to review notes on four basic approaches to counseling
  • Of the many approaches to counseling, which are you most comfortable with?
  • Click HERE to visit a website with descriptions of 12 different counseling models...each link will download a PowerPoint presentation.

Crisis Theory

  • Is the situation a crisis?
  • How do you know it is a crisis?
  • How is crisis Intervention different than counseling?

Assessment

Lesson 13 Discussion

Over the semester you may have developed a comfort level with how you approach interviewing and counseling. Based upon the reading on various styles of counseling, how would you describe your personal approach to interviewing and counseling?

Lesson 13 Assignment

In this assignment you are to write up a "Personal Perspective on Counseling in Mental Health" This should be a "summative" document that outlines your growing perspective of the role of counseling in mental health.

Your paper should express your current, research and experience based, perspectives on the following topics:

  • Approach and theoretical perspectives of counseling.
  • The role of counseling in provision of services for those with Mental Illness.
  • Perspectives on how people change.
  • Introspection on your own strengths and weaknesses in this area.
  • Your plan for ongoing development of these skills.

Write this paper up, include a title page, and submit it to the assignment drop box.