What type of funding streams does your site have (i.e., how do they bill or how are they reimbursed for services)? How has the funding source affected the clients at your site, such as clients being ineligible to receive services?

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AC

 

Dr. Beryl,

My site for my intern hours only takes medicaid and medicare for payments.  Its a non profit drug and alcohol treatment center…our clients do not self pay so they are lower to middle class

Taking the client’s perspective into consideration, reflect on your previous learning in your Social and Cultural Diversity Issues in Counseling and Co-Occurring Disorders courses as you respond to this question. As a counselor, why is it important to consider the client perspective in a counseling session? Provide at least three strategies a counselor may use to support multicultural competence and faith-based beliefs during a counseling session (minimum of at least one strategy for multicultural competence and one for faith-based beliefs).

Topic 2 DQ 2 (Obj. 2.1 and 2.2)

Dec 15-18, 2022

Why are boundaries important in counseling sessions? Describe ways in which your boundaries may have been tested this week. How did you react? What did you learn?

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AC

Topic 7 DQ 1 (Obj. 7.1)

Nov 24-26, 2022

Under what circumstances might it be beneficial to design a group in which both children and their parents would participate? What special issues might arise in such a group, and how would you manage them?

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CA

What form of resistive behavior (or difficult behavior displayed by a group member) would you find most problematic in one of your groups and why? How might you work in a therapeutic way with such a member’s behavior?

Topic 5 DQ 1 (Obj. 5.1)

Nov 10-12, 2022

What are special considerations around confidentiality within an adolescent/child’s group? How would you approach these in a group of adolescents or children? 

This discussion question meets the following NASAC Standard:

93) Understand the concepts of “process” and “content,” and shift the focus of the group when such an intervention will help the group move toward its goals.

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AS

What are three symptoms that you might observe in a final group meeting that might indicate that the group had been successful in achieving its primary purpose and goals? What are three symptoms that might indicate that the group had not been successful?

This discussion question meets the following NASAC Standard: 93) Understand the concepts of “process” and “content,” and shift the focus of the group when such an intervention will help the group move toward its goals.

Using SAMHSA’s TIP #35, what is Motivational Interviewing (MI)? What are the basic tenets of using MI with clients with SUDs?  Discuss how counselors can roll with resistance while working a family in which the client with an SUD is in the precontemplation stage of change.

This discussion question meets the following NASAC Standards:

6) Appreciate the importance of family, social networks, and community systems in the treatment and recovery process.

95) Understand the characteristics and dynamics of families, couples, and intimate dyads affected by addiction.

96) Be familiar with and appropriately use models of diagnosis and intervention for families, couples, and intimate dyads, including extended, kinship, or tribal family structures.

97) Facilitate the engagement of selected members of the family, couple, or intimate dyed in the treatment and recovery process.

98) Help members of the family, couple, or intimate dyed understand the interaction between their system and addiction.

99) Help families, couples, and intimate dyads adopt strategies and behaviors that sustain recovery and maintain healthy relationships.

104) Describe how addiction affects families and significant/concerned others.

105) Describe continuum of care resources that are available to significant/concerned others.

What model of family therapy do you believe provides you with the most helpful therapeutic framework for working with addictive families consistent with your personal theoretical model and preferred counseling style? Explain.

This discussion question meets the following NASAC Standards:

95) Understand the characteristics and dynamics of families, couples, and intimate dyads affected by addiction.

96) Be familiar with and appropriately use models of diagnosis and intervention for families, couples, and intimate dyads, including extended, kinship, or tribal family structures.

104) Describe how addiction affects families and significant/concerned others.