Psychology Question
Use the Consultation, Supervision, and Advocacy Plan Template [DOCX] to complete this assignment. Using your studies in Weeks 7, 8, and 9, as well as ideas you have gathered from your peers in the discussions, address the following in your assignment:
- Identify a population with mental health counseling needs as well as other needs, for example:
- People experiencing chronic or severe mental illnesses who also experience homelessness.
- Children with medical needs who also experience high anxiety.
- Elderly individuals who are socially isolated and depressed.
- Chemically dependent persons with recurring mental health crises.
- Evaluate how the group you identified has been served in the history of clinical mental health counseling.
- Describe the agency that is requesting consultation, specifying where their services are located within the continuum of care available in the community. Briefly outline the services they provide, such as outpatient services, inpatient services, partial hospitalization, or aftercare, and describe the other professionals or entities to whom they can refer clients for coordinated care.
- Identify and describe the consultation theory, model, and strategies you would propose use to assist the agency in improving coordinated services for their clients.
- Propose a counseling supervision model for the agency that describes roles and strategies for maintaining ethical and consistent client care.
- Recommend additional steps professionals at the agency could take to advocate at the state or national level to reduce barriers that impede access, equity, and success for their client population.
Review the rubric to make sure you understand how this assignment will be graded.
Additional Requirements
Your paper should meet the following requirements:
- Written communication: Compose your paper to concisely and clearly address each topic, with correct grammar, punctuation, and mechanics.
- Length of paper: 3–5 typed, double-spaced pages, not including the title page and reference page.
- References: Be sure to correctly cite and reference at least three sources.
- APA formatting: Follow current APA guidelines for style and formatting, as well as for citing your resources in the body of your paper and on the References page. See Evidence and APA.
- Font and font size: Times New Roman, 12 point.
Competencies Measured
By successfully completing this assignment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and rubric criteria:
- Competency 1: Identify the key factors in the development, history, and current opportunities for ethical practice in the clinical mental health counseling profession.
- Evaluate the history and development of clinical mental health counseling services for a client population.
- Competency 3: Plan strategies for interfacing with behavioral health care professionals in mental health service delivery modalities and networks across the continuum of care.
- Describe the location of an agency’s services on the continuum of mental health counseling service networks available in a community.
- Plan strategies for interfacing with professionals providing a range of mental health services, such as inpatient, outpatient, partial treatment, and aftercare.
- Competency 4: Apply the advocacy methods and strategies used by clinical mental health counselors.
- Propose advocacy processes for addressing institutional and social barriers that impede access, equity, and success for clients.
- Competency 5: Describe the theories, models, and strategies used by counselors for supervision and consultation.
- Describe a theory, model, and strategies for practicing consultation to improve coordinated services for clients.
- Describe the role of counseling supervision in facilitating consistent client care.
- Competency 6: Communicate in a manner that is consistent with the expectations of a clinical mental health professional.
- Write clearly, with correct spelling, correct grammar, and good organization.
- Comply with current APA style and formatting for attribution of sources.