Students are expected to email their professor for approval of their choice prio

Students are expected to email their professor for approval of their choice prior to beginning the assignment.
1. Prepare a formal paper that outlines your case conceptualization on a fictitious character from a movie, book, or TV show, as if they were coming to you as a client suffering from trauma. In your submission, you will outline your observations, case conceptualization and recommended treatment approach for your client. You will also look at self-care strategies that you would implement for yourself while working with this client.
2. The paper will comprise of three sections: a full case conceptualization, treatment approach recommendations, and counsellor discussion of countertransference.
3. The case conceptualization section of the paper will include:
1. Introduction of the client, with observations of behaviour;
2. A full assessment of the client (including assessment strategies you would use to assist you – psychometric tests, etc.); and
3. Final overview of your case conceptualization and perceived presenting issue for the client.
4. The treatment approach section will include:
1. Outline of your selected treatment approach;
2. Rationale for selection of treatment approach; and
3. A treatment plan that includes resourcing, stabilization, pacing, containment, and affect/arousal management, exposure and resolution of traumatic memories within your treatment plan.
5. Challenges and Countertransference Section will include:
1. Identifies ways to overcome challenges and countertransference
2. Identification of challenges and potential countertransference
6. You are required to pair up with another student and, using a rough draft of your paper, conduct a case consultation and review of your conceptualization paper.
1. Sign up in Wiki by the beginning of Week 3, and determine the best approach for case consultation. You can use Online Meetings, asynchronous chat, or phone/Skype, whatever works best for both students to collaborate on each other’s conceptualization paper.
2. During Week 4, complete the case consultation with your partner in time to incorporate their feedback into your final submission.
3. Include a reflection of your case consultation (i.e., what was helpful, what was challenging, what insights it brought, and how you think the consultation informed your final paper) as an Appendix to your paper.
7. Prepare this paper in the most recent APA format; support your approach and conceptualization with references from peer-reviewed journals.
8. Any sources used to support your paper should, of course, be cited using the correct and most recent APA format. And, although it can be a useful starting place to gather very general information in order to later verify it with more substantial sources, no Wikipedia references will be accepted as primary scholarly resources. Here’s just one reason why: http://www.nbcnews.com/id/30699302/ns/technology_and_science-tech_and_gadgets/t/student-hoaxes-worlds-media-wikipedia/
9. In addition to the most recent APA format, writing quality (including grammar and spelling) will count toward the final grade. Therefore, proofreading is strongly encouraged
Structure
* Required components: Abstract, Title page, and Reference page
* Length of Assignment: The text body of paper (i.e., not including references, title page or abstract) should consist of approximately 2000 words, (i.e., 7 – 8 double-spaced typed pages, Times New Roman font size: 12).
* Format: Please, format your assignment in Word (files with extension .doc or .docx), or Rich Text Format (files with extension .rtf).
* References: There is no minimum number of current references for this assignment. You must use peer reviewed journal articles in addition to the text book.