Treatment Planning

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MHC 610 Week One Journal Guidelines and Rubric

Overview: This journal activity is private between you and the instructor. The journal will allow you to reflect on past work regarding your theoretical orientation
and case conceptualization.

Prompt: In this journal activity, you will reflect on your final project from COU 530. You should also review the Final Project Guidelines and Rubric documents for
this course, MHC 610.

Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed:

I. Summarize your theoretical orientation or integrated approach.
II. Describe how your theoretical orientation or integrated approach explains:

a. The object of change
b. The problem/issue development
c. The personality development
d. The time frame target for change

III. Describe each of these critical elements through the lens of your theoretical orientation or integrated approach:
a. Approach to healing (client counselor relationship)
b. Model for helping (treatment structure, goals of treatment, structure of a counseling session)
c. Interventions for helping (concepts used to promote focus in the counseling session)

IV. Reflect on how information from COU 530 may be used in the treatment planning and client conceptualization process.

Rubric

Guidelines for Submission: Your journal submission should be two to three paragraphs, and any sources should be cited in APA format.

Critical Elements Proficient (100%) Needs Improvement (70%) Not Evident (0%) Value
Theoretical

Orientation or
Integrated
Approach

Summarizes critical attributes of the
theoretical orientation or integrated
approach

Summarizes critical attributes of the
theoretical orientation or integrated
approach, but summary is
incomplete/inaccurate

Does not summarize critical
attributes of the theoretical
orientation or integrated approach

22

Object of Change Describes how theoretical orientation
or integrated approach explains the
object of change

Describes how theoretical orientation or
integrated approach explains the object
of change, but important information is
missing

Does not describe how theoretical
orientation or integrated approach
explains the object of change

6

2

Critical Elements Proficient (100%) Needs Improvement (70%) Not Evident (0%) Value
Problem/Issue
Development

Describes how theoretical orientation
or integrated approach explains
problem/issue development

Describes how theoretical orientation or
integrated approach explains
problem/issue development, but
important information is missing

Does not describe how theoretical
orientation or integrated approach
explains problem/issue development

6

Personality
Development

Describes how theoretical orientation
or integrated approach explains the
personality development

Describes how theoretical orientation or
integrated approach explains the
personality development, but important
information is missing

Does not describe how theoretical
orientation or integrated approach
explains the personality development

6

Time Frame Target
for Change

Describes how theoretical orientation
or integrated approach explains time
frame target for change

Describes how theoretical orientation or
integrated approach explains time frame
target for change, but important
information is missing

Does not describe how theoretical
orientation or integrated approach
explains time frame target for change

6

Approach to
Healing

Summarizes the approach to healing
(client counselor relationship) through
the lens of theoretical orientation or
integrated approach

Summarizes the approach to healing
(client counselor relationship) through
the lens of theoretical orientation or
integrated approach, but important
information is missing

Does not summarize the approach to
healing (client counselor relationship)
through the lens of theoretical
orientation or integrated approach

8

Model for Helping Summarizes the model for helping
(treatment structure, goals of
treatment, structure of a counseling
session) through the lens of theoretical
orientation or integrated approach

Summarizes the model for helping
(treatment structure, goals of
treatment, structure of a counseling
session) through the lens of theoretical
orientation or integrated approach, but
important information is missing

Does not summarize the model for
helping (treatment structure, goals of
treatment, structure of a counseling
session) through the lens of
theoretical orientation or integrated
approach

8

Interventions for
Helping

Summarizes the interventions for
helping (concepts used to promote
focus in the counseling session) through
the lens of theoretical orientation or
integrated approach

Summarizes the interventions for
helping (concepts used to promote focus
in the counseling session) through the
lens of theoretical orientation or
integrated approach, but important
information is missing

Does not summarize the
interventions for helping (concepts
used to promote focus in the
counseling session) through the lens
of theoretical orientation or
integrated approach

8

Information from
COU 530

Reflects on what was learned in the
COU 530 course that may be used in
the treatment planning and client
conceptualization process

Reflects on what was learned in the COU
530 course that may be used in the
treatment planning and client
conceptualization process, but reflection
is incomplete

Does not reflect on what was learned
in the COU 530 course that may be
used in the treatment planning and
client conceptualization process

20

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Critical Elements Proficient (100%) Needs Improvement (70%) Not Evident (0%) Value
Articulation of

Response
Submission has no major errors related
to APA citations, grammar, spelling,
syntax, or organization

Submission has major errors related to
APA citations, grammar, spelling, syntax,
or organization that negatively impact
readability and articulation of main
ideas

Submission has critical errors related
to APA citations, grammar, spelling,
syntax, or organization that prevent
understanding of ideas

10

Total 100%