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Theories of Counseling & Personality Choose ONLY ONE of the following two questions. In the first line of your answer, write the content area (i.e., Theories) and “Question 1” or “Question 2” before typing your answer in your document; do NOT write any part of the question.   ________________________________________ Question 1 Psychodynamic Person-Centered Cognitive therapy (or you may focus on a particular approach within this category, such as CBT, RET, REBT, etc.) Behavior therapy (ACT, DBT, or any other behavior model) Narrative Therapy Family Systems Feminist Therapy Existential Therapy Gestalt Therapy Pick TWO of the counseling theories from the list above and discuss: Part a) how each theory contributes to the “common factors” of therapy; Part b) how you would attempt to integrate the two theories into clinical practice; AND Part c) how you would evaluate the effectiveness of your integrated approach. Remember to answer ALL parts of the question. Remember that your answer must be no more than 2 pages long. OR Question 2 Part a) Explain why there is often a need to integrate counseling theories; AND Part b) Select two theories that are listed in Question 1 and explain how you would integrate them and why (e.g., what is missing in each theory and how would they supplement each other).                          *Note: Some theories in the list above are integrative (e.g., CBT). If you choose to discuss one of such theories you need to explain how you would integrate it with another theory from the list. For example, you would need to explain how you would integrate CBT with person-centered approach.     Remember to answer ALL parts of the question. Remember that your answer must be no more than 2 pages long.

Basic Counseling Skills Choose ONLY ONE of the following two questions. In the first line of your answer, write the content area (i.e., Skills) and “Question 1” or “Question 2” before typing your answer in your document; do NOT write any part of the question.   _________________________________ Question 1 You have a client who is a junior in college who you have seen for 6 sessions. She presented at intake stating that she is “stressed out by school.”  Over the past couple of sessions, she has started to talk with you about trust issues within her family.  She said that she sees herself as an outcast from her family and that she feels very alone.  This week she mentions that terrible things have happened in her family; however, she was taught to keep family situations private.  Eventually she admits that she was sexually abused by her brother, and that she told her parents but they did not believe her.   She states that she feels worthless and that her life has been ruined.  She says, “I’m better off dead.”  Part a. Write out 4 questions that you would ask this client to assess her safety. Part b. Select two (2) counseling skills (but not the use of questions) that you learned in your Basic Skills course and, for each of those two (2) skills: i. Discuss two (2) reasons why it would be important to use this skill in this particular session; and ii. Write out exactly what you would say to convey each skill. Remember to answer ALL parts of the question. Remember that your answer must be no more than 2 pages long. OR Question 2 “This past year I have been feeling more and more down. I am getting to the point that nothing seems to make sense anymore. Nothing is going right. My car broke down, and my boss is really hard on me. I had an argument with my son because he wouldn’t mow the lawn for me. No matter what I do, nothing works.” Part a) Using the skills of Minimal Encouragers and Paraphrasing, provide three (3) different examples of each skill in response to the statements above that were made by one of your clients who is a single parent. Part b) Write out: i. three questions that you would ask to assess client’s mental health symptoms; and ii. one question to assess her safety. Remember to answer ALL parts of the question. Remember that your answer must be no more than 2 pages long.

Sayantan Purkayastha (Business Development, Patenting, & Licensing in Biotechnology)

A key muscle in unlocking an extended knee due to it’s sagittal and transverse plane actions: 

Heparin inactivates thrombin. Select all of the TRUE statements about how heparin would make blood less likely to clot.

Which of these does not have a transverse plane action at the knee? 

Which of the following hormones makes us feel hungry?

Some of the most successful strategies to losing weight is to:

Which of the following statements about BMI is false?