Assignment: Basic Counseling Skills
Assignment: Basic Counseling Skills
After you’ve met with your partner and recorded the therapeutic video revisit this week, you will complete a two to three-page written analysis of the interaction (excluding the title and APA reference pages).
You should critique (1) your partner as the therapist, and then (2) a brief description of your perspective as the client based on the therapy provided during this video revisit.
For the critique of your partner as therapist, look at the Basic Counseling Skills Rubric (PDF). You will look at the “Basic Counseling Skills Rubric” for examples of what to include and structure your written critique (scoring within your critique is not necessary). Refer directly to the video to support the points within your critique.
For your brief description of your perspective as the client, what were helpful aspects of the session? What was unhelpful? Describe.
After you’ve met with your partner and recorded the therapeutic video revisit this week, you will complete a two to three-page written analysis of the interaction (excluding the title and APA reference pages).
You should critique (1) your partner as the therapist, and then (2) a brief description of your perspective as the client based on the therapy provided during this video revisit.
For the critique of your partner as therapist, look at the Basic Counseling Skills Rubric (PDF). You will look at the “Basic Counseling Skills Rubric” for examples of what to include and structure your written critique (scoring within your critique is not necessary). Refer directly to the video to support the points within your critique.
For your brief description of your perspective as the client, what were helpful aspects of the session? What was unhelpful? Describe.
After you’ve met with your partner and recorded the therapeutic video revisit this week, you will complete a two to three-page written analysis of the interaction (excluding the title and APA reference pages).
You should critique (1) your partner as the therapist, and then (2) a brief description of your perspective as the client based on the therapy provided during this video revisit.
For the critique of your partner as therapist, look at the Basic Counseling Skills Rubric (PDF). You will look at the “Basic Counseling Skills Rubric” for examples of what to include and structure your written critique (scoring within your critique is not necessary). Refer directly to the video to support the points within your critique.
For your brief description of your perspective as the client, what were helpful aspects of the session? What was unhelpful? Describe.
You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.
Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.
Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.
The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.
