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PCN 515 All Assignments For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.com   PCN 515 Week 1
Elements of a Successful Therapeutic Relationship
(100 Score)   PCN 515 Week 2 Empathy, Probing,
and Summarizing (100 Score)     PCN 515 Week 3
Challenging a Client (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.   Week 1 DQ 2 The textbook describes
the importance of empathy and presence. What are
two or three things that you could do to prepare
yourself to be fully present with your clients?
Without empathetic presence, what might a client
infer?
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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. 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 Your role as the
therapist in the counseling process within
community and private mental health
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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.   Week 1 DQ 2 The textbook describes
the importance of empathy and presence. What are
two or three things that you could do to prepare
yourself to be fully present with your clients?
Without empathetic presence, what might a client
infer?
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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?    Week 2 DQ 2 Read and
complete the Probing and Summarizing Practice
Exercise. What did you learn from the
exercise? What went well? What could have g
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PCN 515 Week 2 Empathy, Probing, and Summarizing
(100 Score) For more classes visit www.snaptutori
al.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 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) For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com
  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?
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PCN 515 Week 3 Challenging a Client (100
Score) For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com
  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?
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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?   Week 4 DQ 2 Read and complete the
Problem Identification5Practice Exercise. How
did your problem identification process go? What
went well? What could have been better? What
difficulties did you run into in identifying the
problem?
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PCN 515 Week 4 Telling the Story (100 Score) For
more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com   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
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PCN 515 Week 5 Crisis Counseling (100 Score) For
more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com   Sometime
s 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. 
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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?               Week 6 DQ 2 Read and complete
the Creating Possibilities Practice Session.
How did the practice session go? What went well?
What could have been better? What did you learn
from the process that will help with your
counseling practice? 
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PCN 515 Week 6 The Creation of Hope (100
Score) For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com
  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. 
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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.  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
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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. 2.     
Discuss strategies for helping the client to
maintain change post-termination. Include at
least one scholarly reference in your paper.
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