Unit 9 Assignment 1 & Unit 9 Discussion 1 & 2? $45.00 Due (Sunday) 9/01/2018.   Unit 9 Assignment 1 Group Crisis Intervention Serving Multiple Constituencies This assignment will walk you through the steps to create crisis response plans, which is a critical job skill for counselors of children and adolescents. Using the Group Crisis Intervention Template, you will: · Develop a one-time group crisis intervention plan that will help children or adolescents deal with the loss of classmates. · Develop a one-time group crisis intervention plan to assist their parents and other concerned community members. · For each intervention plan, describe how you will adapt these groups so that they are beneficial for individuals from different cultural backgrounds and are inclusive of individuals with exceptionalities. · Use the Group Crisis Intervention Template to complete this assignment. Follow the instructions for formatting your plan, as indicated in the template. Counselors who work with children and adolescents rarely work only with children and adolescents! They are often asked to help with prevention efforts, consult with schools or other groups that serve children, educate parents and teachers about children's mental health needs, and advocate for changes in communities and schools. Therefore, any counselor must understand how these multiple systems operate and must be knowledgeable about the programs and networks that support the mental health of diverse children and adolescents in the community. For this assignment, you will describe how you would work with diverse individuals and two different constituencies by developing a group crisis intervention proposal for the Middle Valley Consortium. The intervention will include counseling components, education and prevention components, and follow-up plans to connect individuals to other programs or networks, if needed. Your proposal is being requested because the community is still reeling from the shocking death of two middle school students, who overdosed on prescription drugs. Your proposal will include plans for holding two crisis intervention groups, one for the classmates of the deceased children and one for parents and community members who are upset by the event and concerned about the growing epidemic of prescription drug abuse among children and adolescents. Your community is diverse, so your crisis groups will include members from several different racial and ethnic backgrounds. You also have been informed that there is one middle school girl who has a hearing impairment, as do her parents, and one middle school boy affected by a motor neuron disease resulting in orthopedic impairment; he requires a wheelchair. His father is also affected by this heritable disease and requires a wheelchair. Additionally, from previous experience in the school, you know that two of your group members are medicated for ADHD. You will implement your crisis counseling groups adapting the Group Cr ...

1. Unit 9 Assignment 1 & Unit 9 Discussion 1 & 2? $45.00 Due
(Sunday) 9/01/2018.
Unit 9 Assignment 1
Group Crisis Intervention
Serving Multiple Constituencies
This assignment will walk you through the steps to create crisis
response plans, which is a critical job skill for counselors of
children and adolescents. Using the Group Crisis Intervention
Template, you will:
· Develop a one-time group crisis intervention plan that will
help children or adolescents deal with the loss of classmates.
· Develop a one-time group crisis intervention plan to assist
their parents and other concerned community members.
· For each intervention plan, describe how you will adapt these
groups so that they are beneficial for individuals from different
cultural backgrounds and are inclusive of individuals with
exceptionalities.
· Use the Group Crisis Intervention Template to complete this
assignment. Follow the instructions for formatting your plan, as
indicated in the template.
Counselors who work with children and adolescents rarely work
only with children and adolescents! They are often asked to
help with prevention efforts, consult with schools or other
groups that serve children, educate parents and teachers about

2. children's mental health needs, and advocate for changes in
communities and schools. Therefore, any counselor must
understand how these multiple systems operate and must be
knowledgeable about the programs and networks that support
the mental health of diverse children and adolescents in the
community.
For this assignment, you will describe how you would work
with diverse individuals and two different constituencies by
developing a group crisis intervention proposal for the Middle
Valley Consortium. The intervention will include counseling
components, education and prevention components, and follow-
up plans to connect individuals to other programs or networks,
if needed.
Your proposal is being requested because the community is still
reeling from the shocking death of two middle school students,
who overdosed on prescription drugs. Your proposal will
include plans for holding two crisis intervention groups, one for
the classmates of the deceased children and one for parents and
community members who are upset by the event and concerned
about the growing epidemic of prescription drug abuse among
children and adolescents.
Your community is diverse, so your crisis groups will include
members from several different racial and ethnic backgrounds.
You also have been informed that there is one middle school
girl who has a hearing impairment, as do her parents, and one
middle school boy affected by a motor neuron disease resulting
in orthopedic impairment; he requires a wheelchair. His father
is also affected by this heritable disease and requires a
wheelchair. Additionally, from previous experience in the
school, you know that two of your group members are
medicated for ADHD.
You will implement your crisis counseling groups adapting the

3. Group Crisis Intervention plan offered in
Counseling Children
, pages 610–612; however, you will tailor your plan to meet the
needs of your attendees. Your proposal will include the
following:
Introduction to Group Crisis Intervention
Discuss why group crisis counseling is helpful for children and
adolescents who experience crises and how this meets important
mental health needs. Discuss why group crisis counseling is
also helpful for parents, teachers, or community members who
work with children, using a systems theory perspective.
Counseling Theory
Select a counseling theory that will guide your crisis
interventions and state your rationale for using it for this
purpose.
Groups Skills Required in Diverse
Discuss the counseling skills and techniques, based on your
selected theory, which will be genuinely helpful to both groups.
How will you build and maintain rapport throughout the group?
How will you ascertain that you accurately hear and sensitively
respond to the group's emotions?
Sample Group Outlines—Counseling Phase
For each group, describe the Introductory Phase, Fact Phase,
Feeling Phase, and Client's Current Symptoms Phase with brief
elaborations of what you as a counselor will do or say in each
phase.
Teaching Phase

4. The teaching phase will differ for your middle school group and
your concerned parents and community members group. In
addition to teaching your groups about common responses to
crises, including helpful and unhelpful responses, you will need
to include a prevention component to briefly address substance
addictions, including why and how they develop (etiology), how
they can be prevented, and how to intervene when a peer (or a
child or adolescent) is suspected of using drugs, and where
group members can go for further information.
Summary Phase
The summary phase will help support group members going
forward. Describe how you will help develop individual or
group action plans. Describe how you will inform the group of
several hypothetical school or community resources where they
can turn for additional help. The resources should be somewhat
different for the adolescent group and the parent and community
members groups. Including resources that are available in your
own community as part of your resources for your groups will
help prepare you for your own future!
Assuring Cultural Appropriateness for Diverse Individuals
One responsibility of counselors is to use multicultural
competencies to ensure that individuals from all background
benefit from our services. In group settings, this can be even
more challenging due to differences among the group members.
Even group members from the same race have different levels of
acculturation, and so might respond to counseling strategies
differently. What will you do to remain alert and responsive to
needs of the group? How might you need to modify your
counseling skills, techniques, and the group crisis counseling
intervention to make it culturally appropriate for diverse
individuals?

5. Assuring Appropriateness for Individuals With Exceptionalities
All individuals have the right to receive mental health services
that meet their needs. How will you adapt or modify your
groups so that children and adults with unique exceptionalities
or disabilities can benefit as involved members? Are there legal
considerations that will inform your group crisis counseling
plans?
Conclusion
Briefly describe what you have learned about how counselors—
particularly counselors who serve children and adolescents—
need skills to influence community systems, family systems,
and school systems on behalf of their clients.
Requirements
· Prepare your paper in accordance with APA style and
formatting. It should be 6–8 pages long, not counting the
references and title pages. No abstract is necessary.
· Succinctly address key points in each section of your plan.
Counselors must develop plans to share with other professional
that are clear and concise.
· Your paper should have at least 4 references, including the
Counseling Children textbook.
· Use the Group Crisis Intervention template provided in the
Assignment Resources.
Resources
·

6. Group Crisis Intervention Scoring Guide
.
·
Group Crisis Intervention Template
.
·
APA Style and Format
.
Unit 9 Discussion 1
[u09d1] Unit 9 Discussion 1
Personal Reactions to Exceptional Clients
Sometimes when counselors have had little exposure to children
with exceptionalities, their feelings of pity overwhelm their
clinical judgment and their usual counseling approach. The
danger is that the counselor may underestimate the exceptional
child's or teen's abilities and responsibilities, and lower their
expectations for what the child can do.
Reflect on your personal reactions to working or interacting
with children or adolescents who have disfiguring birth defects
or disabilities due to injury. Consider what personal issues you
will be aware of when first meeting the following:
· A teenager who endured a traumatic brain injury in an
automobile accident and who now has severe facial and upper-
body scarring.
· A child who was born with cerebral palsy, resulting in both
speech and motor impairment.
Discuss the personal thoughts and feelings you might anticipate

7. when first meeting a client such as these. What challenges
might you face in differentiating the mental health issues,
potential diagnoses, and counseling needs of the client from
their obvious physical challenges? How would you set realistic
expectations for this child or teen? Cite appropriate sources for
you conclusions.
Resources
·
Discussion Participation Scoring Guide
.
·
o
APA Style and Format
.
Unit 9 Discussion 2
[u09d2] Unit 9 Discussion 2
Differentiated Counseling Interventions
This discussion, and the responses of your peers, is designed to
coordinate with this unit's assignment.
Consider the following scenario:
You are a counselor who is developing a crisis group for Middle
School girls and boys ages 12–14. You know that one group
member has a diagnosis of ADHD and one has another disability
(choose one of the categories described in Chapter 20 of
Counseling Children
).

8. Review page 700 of
Counseling Children
to help you answer the following questions in your initial post:
· What legal and ethical responsibilities do you have with
respect to the young clients with disabilities?
· What goals would you have for a first session for your group?
· What therapeutic approaches or methods will you use to
achieve these goals?
· How will you modify your approach so that the two clients
with exceptionalities receive differentiated supportive
intervention and benefit from the group as much as the other
young people?
·
Discussion Participation Scoring Guide
.
·
o
APA Style and Format
.
Readings
Play Therapy for Children with Disabilities

9. Launch Presentation | Transcript
Complete the following:
· Read Chapter 20, "Counseling With Children With
Disabilities," in
Counseling Children
, on pages 677–705. This chapter reviews methods for
counseling children with special needs, including learning
disabilities, ADHD, and physical exceptionalities.
· Read Becerra and Michael-Makri's 2012 article, "
Applying Structural Family Therapy With a Mexican-American
Family With Children With Disabilities: A Case Study of a
Single-Parent Mother
," from
Journal of Applied Rehabilitation Counseling
, volume 43, issue 2, pages 17–24.
Multimedia
Play Therapy for Children With Disabilities
: Click Launch Presentation to listen to the audio presentation—
a discussion on how disabilities might impact the use of play
therapy as an intervention.
Optional e-Book
Scan Jongsma, Peterson, McInnis, and Bruce's 2014 e-book,
The Child Psychotherapy Treatment Planner
(5th ed.). This e-book may be helpful as a guide to creating
developmentally-appropriate treatment plans.
TEMPLATE
Group Crisis Intervention: Serving Multiple Constituencies

10. Author First Name Middle Initial Last Name
Capella University
Group Crisis Intervention: Serving Multiple Constituencies
This is your paper’s introduction. Note, however, that it does
not have a heading; its position at the beginning of the body of
the paper implies that it is the introduction. Instead, include the
title of your paper centered at the top of the page, not bolded; it
is not considered a heading. In the body of your paper, indent
the first line of each paragraph. As always, use double spacing
and 12-point Times New Roman font. For the purposes of this
assignment, simply replace this text with a brief paragraph in
your own words stating that this paper presents your group
crisis counseling proposals for the Middle Valley XXX.
Introduction to Group Crisis Intervention
Discuss why group crisis counseling is helpful for children and
adolescents who experience crises and how this meets important
mental health needs. Discuss why group crisis counseling is
also helpful for parents, teachers, or community members who
work with children, using systems theory perspectives.
Counseling Theory
Select a counseling theory that will guide your crisis
interventions and state your rationale for using it to serve your
diverse and different groups.
Skills Required in Diverse Groups

11. Discuss the counseling skills and techniques, based on your
selected theory, which will be genuinely helpful to both groups.
How will you build and maintain rapport throughout the group?
How will you ascertain that you accurately hear and sensitively
respond to the group’s emotions?
Sample Group Outline
Counseling Phase
For each group, briefly outline of the Introductory Phase, Fact
Phase, Feeling Phase, and Client’s Current Symptoms phase
with brief elaborations of what you as a counselor will do or say
in each phase. These phases will include very similar content
for both the adolescent and adult groups, but note where
difference might be necessary.
Two paragraphs in this section will allow you to describe the
your plan for the Counseling Phase for both groups.
Teaching Phase
The teaching phase will differ for your middle school group and
your concerned parents and community members group.
Responses to Crisis
. First you will provide psycho-educational information to your
groups about common responses to crisis, including helpful and
unhelpful responses.
Two paragraphs in this section will allow you to describe how
you will teach these concepts to each age group.
Preventing and Responding to Addictions in Children.
Describe how you will include a prevention component to
address substance addictions. Briefly describe how you will

12. present why and how they develop (etiology), how they can be
prevented, and how to intervene when a peer (or a child or
adolescent) is suspected of using drugs, and where group
members can go for further information. Include age-
appropriate information for both groups.
Two paragraphs in this section will allow you to describe how
you will include a prevention component with each group.
Summary Phase
The summary phase will help support group members in going
forward. Describe how you will help develop individual or
group action plans. Including resources that are available in
your own community as part of your resources for your groups
will help prepare you for your own future!
Middle School Group
. The resources should be somewhat different for the adolescent
group and the parent or community members groups. Describe
how you will inform the teens of several hypothetical school or
community resources where they can turn for additional help.
Parent and Concerned Community Members Group
. Describe how you will inform the parents and concerned adults
of several hypothetical school or community resources where
they can turn for additional help.
Assuring Cultural Appropriateness for Diverse Individuals
One responsibility of counselors is to use multicultural
competencies to ensure that individuals from all backgrounds
benefit from our services. In group settings, this can be even
more challenging due to differences among the group members.
Even group members from the same race have different levels of
acculturation, and so might respond to counseling strategies

13. differently. What will you do to remain alert and responsive to
needs of the group? How might you need to modify your
counseling skills, techniques, and the group crisis counseling
intervention to make it culturally appropriate for diverse
individuals?
Assuring Appropriateness for Individuals with Exceptionalities
All individuals have the right to receive mental health services
that meet their needs. How will you adapt or modify your
groups so that individuals with unique exceptionalities or
disabilities can be involved members of the group and benefit
from it? Refer to the legal considerations that will inform your
group crisis counseling plans.
Conclusion
Briefly describe what you have learned about how counselors,
particularly counselors who serve children and adolescents,
need skills to influence community systems, family systems,
and school systems on behalf of the clients they serve.
References
(Include at least five sources that you used in your assignment.
You may include your textbook. The reference below provides
an example citation for an article.)
Author, A. A., Author, B. B., & Author, C. C. (year). Title of
article.
Title of Periodical
,
volume#
(issue#), xx–xx.