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• PCN 515 All Assignments
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• PCN 515 Week 1 Elements of a Successful
  Therapeutic Relationship (100 Score)
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• PCN 515 Week 2 Empathy, Probing, and Summarizing
  (100 Score)
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• PCN 515 Week 3 Challenging a Client (100 Score)
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• PCN 515 Week 4 Telling the Story (100 Score)
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• PCN 515 Week 1 Discussion
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• Week 1 DQ 1 What are some key things you would do
  in your first session with a client to get the
  therapy relationship started in a positive way?
  Be sure to include a least five communication
  skills from your text and discuss why they are so
  critical.

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• PCN 515 Week 1 Elements of a Successful
  Therapeutic Relationship (100 Score)
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• For more course tutorials visit
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• The textbook and the readings for this first
  topic begin to describe some of the key elements
  for a successful therapeutic relationship.
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• Write a 1,200-1,500-word essay that describes the
  characteristics and roles you hope to embody as a
  counselor and the counselor dispositions that you
  want to bring with you. You may write in the
  first person for this assignment. Include the
  following in your paper

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• PCN 515 Week 1-7 All DQs
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• Week 1 DQ 1 What are some key things you would do
  in your first session with a client to get the
  therapy relationship started in a positive way?
  Be sure to include a least five communication
  skills from your text and discuss why they are so
  critical.
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• PCN 515 Week 2 Discussion
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• Week 2 DQ 1 Read and complete the Empathetic
  Listening Practice Exercise. What did you learn
  from the exercise? What went well? What could
  have gone better? How well did you feel you
  attuned to your volunteer client?

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• PCN 515 Week 2 Empathy, Probing, and Summarizing
  (100 Score)
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• Write a 750-1,000-word paper outlining the
  importance of empathy, probing, and summarizing
  in the counseling process. Include the following
  in your paper
• The role of empathy in the counseling
  relationship
• Techniques for establishing empathy with a
  client. Provide at least one example to
  illustrate these techniques.
• The role of probing and summarizing in the
  counseling relationship

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• PCN 515 Week 3 Challenging a Client (100 Score)
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• Write a 750-1,000-word essay outlining at least
  four guidelines for effectively challenging a
  client. For each guideline, provide a case
  example illustrating the principle. Address the
  following in your paper
• How can counselors challenge a client without
  getting into a power struggle with a client, or
  provoking client defensiveness?
• How can counselors help a client to identify
  unused resources and strengths?
• How can counselors help a client to identify
  blind spots while continuing to provide empathy
  and support for the client? 

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• PCN 515 Week 3 Discussion
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• Week 3 DQ 1 You notice that a client has started
  to withdraw and engage in some Yes, but...
  behaviors. What are some strategies you could use
  to help reengage this client?
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• Week 3 DQ 2 Read and complete the Challenging
  Practice Session. What did you discover during
  the practice session? What did you learn about
  yourself as a new counselor to be?

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• PCN 515 Week 4 Discussion
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• Week 4 DQ 1 Provide a scenario involving a client
  that you imagine you might encounter in your
  future field placement setting. Describe what
  stage of the change process the hypothetical
  client is in. How would you move the client to
  the next stage?
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• PCN 515 Week 4 Telling the Story (100 Score)
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• Hector is a 35-year-old Hispanic male. Hector was
  seriously injured in an auto accident 5 months
  ago. He spent 4 months in the hospital. One leg
  and hip suffered permanent damage. He will
  probably always need a cane and walk with a limp.
  He also has limited mobility in his right arm and
  shoulder and cannot lift anything heavy. 
• Hector grew up in a family with a construction
  business. He has been working in construction
  since high school. Social work at the rehab
  hospital referred Hector to counseling because he
  is not adjusting well to his injuries. He is very
  depressed and angry because he cannot continue to
  work in his chosen occupation. Hector says, What
  use am I

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• PCN 515 Week 5 Crisis Counseling (100 Score)
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• Sometimes clients come into the counseling
  session with an immediate crisis. They need an
  immediate solution to a problem. Counseling in
  these situations needs to be focused and goal
  oriented. 
• Jamila has been working with her counselor on
  learning to better manage her 9-year-old
  son. Last night, her son was hit by a car and is
  in the hospital. This has created a number of
  problems
• She has to arrange childcare for her daughter so
  she can stay with her son in the hospital. 
• He will need some special care when he gets home
  because he will be in a wheelchair.
• She is fearful that she will lose her job as a
  teachers aide in the local public school. 

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• PCN 515 Week 6 Discussion
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• Week 6 DQ 1 What are some strategies you can use
  to help clients envision different possibilities?
  Choose a counseling theory you are considering
  using and explain how it could be used to help
  the client see different perspectives. How might
  a clients developmental stage impact the
  treatment plan?

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• PCN 515 Week 6 The Creation of Hope (100 Score)
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• Chapter 11 in the textbook emphasizes the
  importance of hope and possibility in the
  counseling process. Clients come into counseling
  having tried many different solutions that have
  failed. In many cases, they are discouraged and
  hopeless about resolving their problems in a way
  that creates a better life.
• In some cases, clients face significant barriers
  of physical disability or illness, histories of
  trauma, occupational disadvantages, or
  addictions. Throughout the counseling process the
  counselor attempts to create hope. 
• Write a 750-1,000-word paper discussing the
  following
• How can the counselor create a sense of hope and
  possibility for the client?

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• PCN 515 Week 7 Action Planning and Overcoming
  Barriers (100 Score)
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• If counseling is all talk and no action it is not
  effective counseling. The problem is that clients
  encounter many barriers in carrying out actions
  they identify in the counseling process. 
• Write a 750-1,000-word paper discussing action
  planning and overcoming barriers for client
  treatment. Please use headings and include the
  following in your paper
• Discuss the principles for effectively
  implementing an action plan.
• Describe at least five barriers that might
  interfere with client implementation of the
  action plans that are created. Include a case
  example of each barrier.

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• PCN 515 Week 7 Discussion
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• Week 7 DQ 1 What can you do as a counselor to
  help clients develop the support that they need
  to continue the progress they have made in
  therapy?
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• Week 7 DQ 2 Read and complete the Action
  Planning Practice Exercise. What did you learn
  from the exercise? What problems might you
  encounter in carrying out this action plan? How
  might this apply to your counseling practice?

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• PCN 515 Week 8 Self-Reflection (100 Score)
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• You have been practicing counseling skills either
  on a volunteer or on yourself throughout this
  course. This paper is an opportunity to reflect
  on everything you learned. It is also an
  opportunity to examine yourself as a potential
  counselor. You may write in the first-person
  perspective in this assignment.
• Write a 500-750-word paper addressing the
  following
• What is the most significant information you
  learned about the skills required to be an
  effective counselor? Were there any skills that
  surprised you as you worked through the course? 

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• PCN 515 Week 8 Termination of the Counselling
  Relationship (100 Score)
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• In a 250-500-word essay, hypothetically terminate
  the counseling relationship with a client who has
  experienced trauma and abuse in the past and has
  now seen you, the counselor, for 8 months
  regarding this trauma.
• Describe the successful termination of the client
  relationship.
• Discuss strategies for helping the client to
  maintain change post-termination.
• Include at least one scholarly reference in your
  paper.
• Prepare this assignment according to the
  guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located
  in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not
  required.

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