INSTRUCTIONSYou must follow the current APA guidelines, which include a title page, the 6 headings provided below (in bold as main headings), and any sub-headers deemed necessary. Remember to double-space the document. You must include a minimum of 5 pages with at least 5 scholarly sources and include citations and a reference page. Appropriate sources include textbooks from previous courses and empirically-reviewed journal articles. Your paper must address the following questions found under each topic/heading below:1. Ethics: What ethical issues have you encountered or observed during your Practicum? How did your site and supervisor address those ethical issues? What have you learned from your supervisor and from reading the ACA Code of Ethics on how to address these ethical issues?2. Human Growth and Development: What client population did you work with (children, adolescents, adults, senior adults)? How has what you have learned in your Human Growth & Development (COUC 502) course been apparent in “the real world” with this population?3. Counseling Theories: How has your theoretical orientation developed throughout Practicum? What main theoretical approaches are used in your site? What have you learned from observing these approaches? Make sure to name at least 1 theory and to check with your supervisor if you are unsure what theory/theories are used most often at your site. Refer back to Week 12, where you reflected on your theoretical development in the journal entry, to assist with this section.4. Counseling Skills: What basic skills learned in COUC 505 did you observe being used in counseling sessions? What skills did you identify easily and what skills did you have difficulty identifying? Describe some specific elements of the counseling process that you learned in COUC 505 and observed at your site. What types of homework assignments were given to clients? Refer back to Weeks 2 and 9, where you set goals and reflected on your progress, to assist with this section.5. Biblical Worldview: How does your Christian faith influence your view of counseling? If you are in a secular site or government agency, how does your site address the issue of religion in counseling? If you are at a Christian site, what have you learned at your site about addressing religious and diversity issues? For example, what is your site’s perspective on issues such as cohabitation, abortion, homosexuality, and other controversial issues? Based on your experiences this semester, how are you planning to address issues of faith and diversity in counseling?6. Action Plan: Please develop an action plan for continuous improvement. Identify at least one area of improvement for your clinical skills, theory development, and other area/s of professional development. Identify a minimum of three goals, three actions for each goal, and a target date to achieve each action. Remember to incorporate what you have learned about setting SMART goals from previous classes. You may copy this chart to paste into your paper. An example is provided below the chart.
