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Counseling Treatment Plan One

Scenario for Treatment Plan #1

A family comes to your practice for help. Here is the following information that is collected during their intake.

Mom and Dad have been married for twenty years. They have a middle-class income. Mom works twenty hours per week as a para legal. Dad is a college professor at the local four-year institution. They have three children. The oldest is a 16-year-old girl. She is a straight A student, and she is well liked at her school and the family’s church. She does not play any sports. Her hobbies are reading, art, and theatre club at the school. She just received her driver’s license about three months ago. It is rare that she is ever in trouble and in need of discipline for breaking family or school rule. Counseling Treatment Plan One

The second child is 12-year-old male. This young man seems to find trouble anywhere he goes during the day. He struggles in school, but the teachers state he is fully capable of completing the work; he just refuses to do the work. He is defiant at school and at home. He spends most of his time defying authority figures who are left in charge of him each day. He can go for days without getting in trouble and then he could go a week getting in trouble every day. Even when he is presented with a “video” of his infraction, he will sit and deny it. He never claims that anything is his fault. He has been known to get into fights at school and even with his older sister. The older sister never fights back. She tries to get away from him rather than engage.

He will intentionally break a rule at home and blame it on his older sister or younger brother.

Spanking him only makes him madder and more out of control. Time-out ruins everyone’s night because he sits in time-out and verbally says things to bother the rest of the household. The only person he has never shown the behavior is his grandmother on his mother’s side.

The third child is a 10- year-old boy. The boy is identical to the older sibling. He makes good grades, and he is well liked by others. He does show some of the “baby of the family” traits. For example, when his older brother picks on him, he immediately cries and screams for his mother. Counseling Treatment Plan One

1. Presenting Symptoms/Issues (i.e., Anxiety Depression etc.) Spaces are provided for three symptoms or issues but you may have less or add more if needed.,UWA students have access to the full-text DSM-5 via the Library website (found at uwa.edu/currentstudentsfacultyandstaff). The DSM is in a database titled “Psychiatry Online”. This database is filled with incredible diagnostic information.
2. Information that Supports Item I. How did you arrive at the above conclusions? Again, you may have less or more information here.)

III.        Treatment Theoretical Approach(es): List and describe one or two theories that you, as the counselor, would use to work with the individual/family and give a rationale for choosing those approaches. Please do not describe a “integrated” approach but, rather, describe one or two specific theories. For each theory you list here, describe it using at least 250 words. Cite at least two scholarly sources in this description (no websites!). Include the two sources in a reference section at the end of your document (after case #2)

1. Treatment Modalities (i.e. Specify Group Family Couple Individual—make sure that your choice of treatment modalities correlates with what you going to do with the individuals in the scenario.),
2. Reasons for the Chosen Modalities in Item IV. Frequency of Sessions for Each Modality in Item IV. Counseling Treatment Plan One,

VII.       Measurable Treatment Goals (Be sure to state these using action verbs. For example, “The client(s) will be able to identify, discuss, describe, etc.”)

VIII.      Techniques from Theoretical Approaches: Based on the theory you described in section III above, list and describe three techniques that you could use for this case. Describe each technique using at least 150 words. These techniques/interventions should be directly related to the theory you described in Item III. Besides your textbook, include at least two other scholarly sources (articles or textbooks; no websites). Include your sources in the reference section at the very end of your document (after case #2).

1. Frequency for Evaluating Each Goal
2. How will Progress Be Defined?, What will you be looking for regarding progress with your client(s)?