Counseling Theories

Client File Project (9 pages, 6 page body, title page, abstract page, references): 1. Demonstrate the screening process through which the counselor, consumer, and others determine the most appropriate course of action to meet the consumer’s needs and the available resources within the community by determining the eligibility to a particular program. Identify the appropriate screening instrument to use when determining the eligibility of a client into a program. Gather information from client and collateral sources. Validate screening instruments, including their purpose, application, and limitations. Use a screening instrument. 2. Identify the counseling theories that have been utilized in the file. Describe the theory and theory techniques that are effective. 3. Who is on the treatment and referral team? What are each person’s duties and responsibilities? How is your position as the case manager important? 4. Have you checked the referral dates and requirements? What are the diagnoses and issues that your consumer is having based on the latest DSM? What are the next steps that you and the team will pursue to effectively assist the consumer? What are some multicultural considerations? Familial considerations? 5. Develop a reference list. Be sure to include the authors’ views inside the paper. Case Study Charles: An Adult with Developmental Disabilities Charles has mental retardation as a result of brain damage suffered during birth. When I met him he was living in a group home and had been there since being released from the state institution for persons with mental retardation years before. In association with his brain damage, Charles had apraxia of speech, great trouble moving his lips, tongue, and soft palate to make sounds. My task was to improve his functional communication by encouraging word use instead of grunts or gestures and then teach the skills trainer at his group to do the same. Charles was able to produce two and three word phrases but had not needed words at the institution and so had fallen out of the habit of making the effort required to talk. We met once weekly at his group home for three months with his skills trainer present and we taught the trainer to administer the speech encouragement program. I also trained this person in techniques of indirect language stimulation, using short descriptive phrases to describe what Charles was doing or seeing without asking questions, all in an effort to bolster his receptive language. I then checked on Charles’ progress at six month intervals.