Intervention Case Study

COU 680 Week Five Intervention Paper Guidelines and Rubric Bereavement and Grief

Overview: Selection of appropriate resources and interventions for clients who have experienced trauma or crisis involves consideration of biological, developmental, cultural, and spiritual factors. Your success in treating these clients will depend heavily on a comprehensive assessment of these factors and on matching an appropriate intervention to the client crisis or trauma experience and to the individual needs of your client. The first final project for this course is the creation of a trauma toolbox consisting of resources selected from counseling literature that you will use to support clients who experience symptoms of crisis and trauma. You will review different case studies throughout the course that will introduce you to how to work with different types of clients. This assignment represents the second of the case studies and involves identifying a treatment intervention that can be used when working with clients experiencing bereavement and grief. Note: You will also submit this assignment to your ePortfolio as part of your final project trauma toolbox in Week Nine. After receiving feedback, you will upload the paper, including tracked changes that show any revisions or corrections you made, for your final toolbox submission. This is required in order to receive credit for the final project. Prompt: Review the Week Five Case Study Ilana document, and then address the following. Be sure to support your responses with research.

 You should NOT use any of the provided weekly resources or the LAPC Model (except in Week Four) for your selected intervention. Instead, please use empirical research to locate an appropriate intervention specific to the case study. See the Clarification of Intervention document. You may use articles from the Mental Health Counseling Guide or from other sources, as long as the intervention is grounded in research. Write a paper that includes the following:

 Provide a brief description of the intervention including: (1) to whom it can be applied (2) under what circumstances it can be applied (3) any limitations to the intervention that should be considered

 Provide rationale for choosing the selected approach for the case study.

 Include an explanation for why selecting that intervention will help your work with the selected case study client, and provide appropriate support.

 Describe how the intervention can be used in future work when supporting the treatment approaches for clients.

 Provide a link to the intervention within the body of the paper (or upload the PDF) so your instructor can easily identify and reference it. Ensure the link is active and accessible for review by your instructor. Note: If your selected intervention is not accessible, your submission will be returned to you.

 Add the intervention to your ePortfolio. Rubric

Guidelines for Submission: This short paper should follow the Intervention Paper Template. It should be 2 to 4 pages in length with double spacing, 12-point Times New Roman font, and one-inch margins. All references should be cited in APA format. Critical Elements Excellent (100%) Proficient (90%) Needs Improvement (70%) Not Evident (0%) Value

Empirically Validated

Selects empirically validated intervention

Does not select empirically validated intervention

10

Description Meets “Proficient” criteria, and description is detailed and demonstrates exceptional insight or analysis

Briefly describes intervention and includes to whom it can be applied, under what circumstances, and any limitations

Briefly describes intervention, but description contains gaps or inaccuracies or lacks detail

Does not describe intervention 18.75

Rationale Meets “Proficient” criteria, and rationale is detailed and demonstrates exceptional insight or analysis substantiated by learning and scholarly resources

Provides rationale for selecting the intervention and reflects the appropriateness of fit to the selected case study

Provides rationale for selecting the intervention, but rationale contains gaps or inaccuracies or lacks detail, or the intervention is not appropriate to the selected case study

Does not provide rationale for selecting the intervention

18.75

Explanation of Support

Meets “Proficient” criteria, and explanation is detailed and demonstrates exceptional insight or analysis substantiated by learning and scholarly resources

Explains how the selected intervention will provide appropriate support to the case study client

Explains how the selected intervention will provide appropriate support to the case study client, but explanation contains gaps or inaccuracies or lacks detail

Does not explain how the selected intervention will provide appropriate support to client

18.75

Future Application

Meets “Proficient” criteria, and description of future application is detailed and demonstrates exceptional insight or analysis

Describes how the intervention can be used in future work when supporting the treatment approaches for clients

Describes how the intervention can be used in future work when supporting the treatment approaches for clients, but description contains gaps or inaccuracies or lacks detail

Does not describe how the intervention can be used in future work when supporting the treatment approaches for clients

18.75

Link to or PDF of Resource

Provides an active link to or PDF of the intervention

Does not provide an active link to or PDF of the intervention, or intervention is not accessible

10

Critical Elements Excellent (100%) Proficient (90%) Needs Improvement (70%) Not Evident (0%) Value

Articulation of Response

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

Submission has some errors related to grammar, spelling, syntax, or organization but they are minimal and do not negatively impact readability and articulation of main ideas

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

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

5

Total 100%