Homework Assistance

Some of you have asked me for some broader background to the two final questions. I had shared these explanations with some, but I thought, it will be beneficial if I send it to all of you. These explanations will help you contextualize the questions better. Question 1. Consider the gaps perceived between personal and professional experience and share in a group process. Identify the major themes, creating a profile of the gap in family practice. Any therapist exist in multiple forms of identity. Very simply, the first identity being that of a person whose life is embedded in first community and touched in some way by the experience of disability and family care. The second identity is that of experience of the professional whose career is defined in some way by the fundamental mission of rehabilitation counseling (i.e., full community inclusion for people with disabilities). Therapists inhabit both social identities and perhaps find stress and strain between these frames of reference. The premise of the book, the questions and the narratives it presents suggests that we would find some personal discomfort in any gap between the two. Are you, as a professional, comfortable with current models and practices? In this question, you are asked to share the gaps that you think you encounter as a hypothetical practitioner of family counseling with persons with disabilities. Question 2. Individually, what is your role in advocating on behalf of your profession and families? What is required of you, ethically speaking? This is a straightforward question about advocacy. However, to answer this question, you will have to address the issues that are raised in question 1, especially that of the gaps. Because, advocacy starts with identification of what is lacking. Advocates talk about those issues…not what is already available. Once you create a framework of is expected of you as a family therapist, you visualize yourself as an advocate in addition to the role of therapist. Then you can consult the ACA and CRCC code of ethics, and talk about what ethical frameworks are relevant to you as a family therapist in order to address the gaps. Keep a few things in mind: This is an exercise in thought, there are no right answers or wrong answers. However, there are answers that are insightful, well thought out and well argued, in addition to being well read...and answers that have no thought out and not well read. So, if you want to answer this question, I will ask you to start sifting through the chapters, and jotting down your reflections, You also have to start reading literature on this issue. Search literature concerning counselor role in family practice. The ideas that I shared are what I think about these questions, and how they should be addressed. You can come up with a completely different set of responses. As long as you are arguing your case well, and citing well, expect the best grade.