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PCN 515 All Assignments For more classes
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Elements of a Successful Therapeutic Relationship
(100 Score)   PCN 515 Week 2 Empathy, Probing,
and Summarizing (100 Score)    
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PCN 515 Week 1 Discussion For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.com   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) For more
classes visit www.snaptutorial.com   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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PCN 515 Week 1-7 All DQs For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.com   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 For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.com   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) For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.com   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
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PCN 515 Week 3 Challenging a Client (100 Score)
For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com   Wri
te 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
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PCN 515 Week 3 Discussion For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.com   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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PCN 515 Week 4 Discussion For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.com   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)
For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com   Hec
tor 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. 
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PCN 515 Week 5 Crisis Counseling (100 Score)
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etimes 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. 
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  PCN 515 Week 5 Discussion For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.com   Week 5 DQ 1 Why is
identifying the "real story" important for
effective counseling? What difficulties could
occur if you do not focus your counseling on the
"real story?" Explain how you would handle a
client who states he is feeling hopeless and
helpless. How would you assess for suicidality?
If the client only has fleeting thoughts but no
plan, what strategies might you employ?  
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PCN 515 Week 6 Discussion For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.com   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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pter 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.
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PCN 515 Week 6 The Creation of Hope (100 Score)
For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com   Cha
pter 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.
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PCN 515 Week 7 Action Planning and Overcoming
Barriers (100 Score) For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.com   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. 
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PCN 515 Week 7 Action Planning and Overcoming
Barriers (100 Score) For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.com   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. 
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PCN 515 Week 7 Discussion For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.com   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?  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) For
more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com   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.
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PCN 515 Week 8 Termination of the Counselling
Relationship (100 Score) For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.com   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. 1.      Describe the successful
termination of the client relationship.
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