Description Read a selection of your colleagues’ postings.   Respond to at least two different colleagues’ postings in one or more of the following ways:   Analyze your colleague’s post about the two models in relation to the medical social work profession. Expand on your colleague’s post about the medical model and the biopsychosocial model…

Week8 6456 Life Transition and Developmental Issues II   Readings   • Gurman, A.S., Lebow, J.L., Snyder, D. K. (2015).     Clinical handbook of couple therapy. New York, NY: The Guilford Press.    o Chapter 20, “Couple Therapy and Post Traumatic Stress     Disorder”   o Chapter 24, “Couple Therapy and Sexual Problems”   Media…

Certain elements of treatment planning for clients experiencing life transition and developmental issues may be easier than others. For instance, it may be obvious that a breadwinner’s job loss is the major concern facing a family. The more difficult part may be crafting clinical and treatment formulations for this issue that explain how it affects…

For your Final Project, you will write a 8- to 10-page theory paper that articulates your theoretical orientation toward working with couples and families. Your paper must include the following elements that evolve from your personal theoretical orientation:   The basic view of human nature as seen through your theoretical lens Key factors that account…

Description Directions: watch videos of counselors demonstrating the use of Bowenian and structural theories in family counseling. You then formulate treatment plans for the couples and/or families in the videos, applying the theories in question and justifying the use of appropriate interventions.    Based on the theory demonstrated in both videos:   Define the problem…

Assignment: Applying Theoretical Interventions for Clients Experiencing Life Transition and Developmental Issues Couple and family helping professionals have varying degrees of work. What they all have in common is that their clients represent the variety of human experience. Even those helping professionals with a specific clinical focus see variety in the ways in which specific…

In our culture, there is an increased use of social media.  Social media has changed the way people and families interact with each other.  Many theorists believe social media has advantages of connecting people, while other theorists believe social media negatively affects relationships, for many reasons.  Social workers need to be aware of the couples’…

Primary Applications    Readings    · Gurman, A. S., Lebow, J. L., & Snyder, D. K. (2015). Clinical handbook of couple therapy. New York, NY: The Guilford Press.    o Chapter 15, “Couple Therapy and the Treatment of Affairs ”    o Chapter 21, “Couple Therapy and Alcohol Problems”    · Williams, M. (2012). Couples…

Overview of Couple and Family Counseling Readings must use the reading.    · Course Introduction    · Gurman, A. S., Lebow, J. L., Snyder, D. K. (2015). Clinical handbook of couple therapy. New York, NY: The Guilford Press.    o Chapter 1, “Theory and Practice of Couple Therapy: History, Contemporary Models, and a Framework for…

Week 5: Building an Agenda Experienced policy advocates realize that their first challenge is to get a specific policy issue on decision makers’ agendas in agency, community, or legislative settings. —Bruce S. Jansson, Becoming an Effective Policy Advocate: From Policy Practice to Social Justice (8th ed.) When you have committed yourself to an issue and…