This week, you will select a topic from the list and address the writing prompt from your theoretical orientation for your client population at your field sites.

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COUNSELOR TACKLE BOX DISCUSSION TOPICS LIST

In Week 6, you will select a writing topic from the provided list for your discussion prompt. Each week and each quarter, you will select a topic that you have not previously responded to in field experience.

OVERVIEW OF DISCUSSION ASSIGNMENT REQUIREMENTS_____________

This week, you will select a topic from the list and address the writing prompt from your theoretical orientation for your client population at your field sites. By posting your review of the topic, and by reading the posts of your colleagues, you are building out each other’s tackle boxes. By the end of your Field Experience, you and your colleagues will each have submitted a total of four different topics in which you have applied your counseling skills with clients at your approved field sites. In your post, make sure to: 

· Provide an overview of your topic selection 

· Provide a response through your chosen theoretical lens 

· Provide details regarding an example of an intervention/approach/course of action taken/to be taken to address your chosen topic 

  DISCUSSION TOPICS FOR CMHC/MFC & SC __________________

CMHC

SC

Cultural Considerations:

Identify a client culturally different from yourself. From your chosen theoretical lens, discuss how you creatively addressed any barriers presented by the intersectionality of cultural identities between yourself and the client to meet the needs of the client.

Cultural Considerations:

Identify a student culturally different from yourself. From your chosen theoretical lens, discuss how you creatively addressed any barriers presented by the intersectionality of cultural identities between yourself and the student to meet the needs of the student.

Sexuality Counseling:

Consider a client for whom sexuality is a concern that is impacted by or impacting the client’s mental health and wellness. Taking into account your theoretical lens, discuss how you have navigated meeting the needs of the client with regards to sexuality counseling, attending specifically to addressing ethical, legal, developmental, and systemic barriers to service delivery.

Sexuality Counseling:

Consider a student for whom sexuality is a concern that is impacted by or impacting the student’s mental health, wellness, and social/academic functioning. Taking into account your theoretical lens, discuss how you have navigated meeting the needs of the student with regards to sexuality counseling, attending specifically to addressing ethical, legal, developmental, and systemic barriers to service delivery.

Collaboration/Systems Lens:

Consider an example of implementing a collaborative/systemic approach to meet the needs of a client. Discuss how this approach integrates with your theoretical lens. Describe your approach and analyze how it met the specific needs of the client, taking into account both ethical and legal considerations.

Collaboration/Systems Lens:

Consider an example of implementing a collaborative/systemic approach both inside and outside of the school to meet the needs of a student. Discuss how this approach integrates with your theoretical lens. Describe your approach and analyze how it met the specific needs of the student, taking into account both ethical and legal considerations.

Advocacy/Social Change:

Discuss an example of when you have provided advocacy on a client’s behalf and identify relevant ethical principles associated with the steps toward client advocacy. Discuss the role of the client in your advocacy efforts and the role of your theoretical lens within your actions. How can this example be expanded to impact social change for other clients with similar needs on a larger scale?

Advocacy/Social Change:

Discuss an example of when you have provided advocacy on a student’s behalf and identify relevant ethical principles associated with the steps toward student advocacy. Discuss the role of the student in your advocacy efforts and the role of your theoretical lens within your actions. How can this example be expanded to impact social change for other students with similar needs on a larger scale?

Intentional Individualization of Interventions:

Consider an intervention from your theoretical lens that you have used with success with a client. Discuss this client’s cultural identities, specific presenting concerns, and other relevant information that may influence the effectiveness of the intervention. Consider a client in a different population/context/cultural identity and recommend modifications for your intervention to accommodate those differences.

Intentional Individualization of Interventions:

Consider an intervention from your theoretical lens that you have used with success with a student. Discuss this student’s cultural identities, specific presenting concerns, and other relevant information that may influence the effectiveness of the intervention. Consider a student in a different population/context/cultural identity and recommend modifications for your intervention to accommodate those differences.

Grief Work:

Consider a client that you are working with/have worked with for whom grief was a significant issue. Consider a creative approach to targeting grief work that aligns with or complements your theoretical lens. What are some additional considerations for incorporating this approach into your practice?

Grief Work:

Consider a student that you are working with/have worked with for whom grief was a significant issue. Consider a creative approach to targeting grief work that aligns with or complements your theoretical lens. What are some additional considerations for incorporating this approach into your support for the student?

Vicarious Trauma & Self Care:

Consider an experience working with a client who created a strong trauma response/reaction within yourself. From your theoretical lens, conceptualize your experience and describe interventions from this theoretical lens to increase your own self-care to mitigate vicarious trauma response when working with clients.

Vicarious Trauma & Self Care:

Consider an experience working with a student who created a strong trauma response/reaction within yourself. From your theoretical lens, conceptualize your experience and describe interventions from this theoretical lens to increase your own self-care to mitigate vicarious trauma response when working with students.

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