Final Project: Marriage, Couple, and Family Counseling Families face many challenges in today’s world and marriage, couple, and family counselors (MCF) are the professionals who help families navigate difficult times. Families are a working system and each element of that system impact the operation of the system and the individual members. Issues such as substance abuse, family violence, divorce, mental illness, infidelity, and child abuse present counselors with numerous treatment challenges. As an MCF counselor, will you be ready to address them? For the Final Project, you will consider the clients in the solution focused YouTube videos you viewed earlier in the course
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For your Final Project, you are to develop an assessment and intervention plan for one of the clients in the videos and present it in an academic paper with scholarly references from the professional literature (e.g., Journal of Family Therapy, Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, The Family Journal, Journal of Marriage and Family Counseling, Journal of Contemporary Family Therapy, Journal of Counseling and Development). Your project should include all of the following sections:
1. Legal and ethical considerations regarding the family circumstances
2. Multicultural considerations
3. Identify any family life cycle considerations
4. Theoretical counseling model you would use in the case with rationale
5. Specific issues facing the family
6. Assessment techniques you would use in the case with rationale
7. Intervention plan for the family
8. Research (at least five references) that support your intervention plan
9. Prognosis for the family
10. A reflection on your learning experience in this course and your preparedness for working as a marriage, couple, and family counselor.
Although the Final Project is not to be submitted until Day 7 of Week 5, you should become familiar with the project requirements and have them in mind as you proceed through the course. The Final Project will be evaluated according to the final project rubric. Be sure that the Final Project is written using APA format. Information on scholarly writing may be found in the APA Manual (6th ed.) and at the Purdue OWL Writing Center site (http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/). The Final Project is due (in Blackboard) on Day 7 of Week 5.
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Final Project Assignment Rubric: Marriage Couple & Family Counseling
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Applies ethical, legal, and professional considerations to the practice of marriage, couples, and family counseling G1j A2, A3, A4, C4, D5, D6–
Levels of Achievement:
Exemplary
30 (8.57142%) – 36 (10.28571%)
Questions are accurately and thoroughly answered
Proficient
20 (5.71428%) – 29 (8.28571%)
Questions are partially accurate but most to all are answered
Needs Improvement
10 (2.85714%) – 19 (5.42857%)
Answers are more inaccurate than accurate OR many are unanswered
Unacceptable
0 (0.00%) – 9 (2.57142%)
Answers are completely inaccurate or missing.
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Analyzes challenges faced by diverse and multicultural families (related to marriage, couple, and family counseling/therapy) G2d E1-6 D2–
Levels of Achievement:
Exemplary
30 (8.57142%) – 36 (10.28571%)
Questions are accurately and thoroughly answered
Proficient
20 (5.71428%) – 29 (8.28571%)
Questions are partially accurate but most to all are answered
Needs Improvement
10 (2.85714%) – 19 (5.42857%)
Answers are more inaccurate than accurate OR many are unanswered
Unacceptable
0 (0.00%) – 9 (2.57142%)
Answers are completely inaccurate or missing.
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Applies the family life cycle to marriage, couple, and family counseling/therapy A6, C1 A.5–
Levels of Achievement:
Exemplary
30 (8.57142%) – 36 (10.28571%)
Questions are accurately and thoroughly answered
Proficient
20 (5.71428%) – 29 (8.28571%)
Questions are partially accurate but most to all are answered
Needs Improvement
10 (2.85714%) – 19 (5.42857%)
Answers are more inaccurate than accurate OR many are unanswered
Unacceptable
0 (0.00%) – 9 (2.57142%)
Answers are completely inaccurate or missing.
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Applies marriage, couple, and family counseling models, theories, and techniques to a specific family case A6, C1 A5–
Levels of Achievement:
Exemplary
30 (8.57142%) – 36 (10.28571%)
Questions are accurately and thoroughly answered
Proficient
20 (5.71428%) – 29 (8.28571%)
Questions are partially accurate but most to all are answered
Needs Improvement
10 (2.85714%) – 19 (5.42857%)
Answers are more inaccurate than accurate OR many are unanswered
Unacceptable
0 (0.00%) – 9 (2.57142%)
Answers are completely inaccurate or missing.
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Analyzes issues affecting couples and families G2d C2, C4 I3–
Levels of Achievement:
Exemplary
30 (8.57142%) – 36 (10.28571%)
Questions are accurately and thoroughly answered
Proficient
20 (5.71428%) – 29 (8.28571%)
Questions are partially accurate but most to all are answered
Needs Improvement
10 (2.85714%) – 19 (5.42857%)
Answers are more inaccurate than accurate OR many are unanswered
Unacceptable
0 (0.00%) – 9 (2.57142%)
Answers are completely inaccurate or missing.
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Understands and applies assessment and intervention planning to marriage, couples, and families G7f G1, G2 D1–
Levels of Achievement:
Exemplary
30 (8.57142%) – 36 (10.28571%)
Questions are accurately and thoroughly answered
Proficient
20 (5.71428%) – 29 (8.28571%)
Questions are partially accurate but most to all are answered
Needs Improvement
10 (2.85714%) – 19 (5.42857%)
Answers are more inaccurate than accurate OR many are unanswered
Unacceptable
0 (0.00%) – 9 (2.57142%)
Answers are completely inaccurate or missing.
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Applies evidence-based and empirically supported intervention strategies to the treatment of marriage, couple, and family issues G8e , I3–
Levels of Achievement:
Exemplary
30 (8.57142%) – 36 (10.28571%)
Questions are accurately and thoroughly answered
Proficient
20 (5.71428%) – 29 (8.28571%)
Questions are partially accurate but most to all are answered
Needs Improvement
10 (2.85714%) – 19 (5.42857%)
Answers are more inaccurate than accurate OR many are unanswered
Unacceptable
0 (0.00%) – 9 (2.57142%)
Answers are completely inaccurate or missing.
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Applies research findings to marriage, couples, and family counseling G8e I1-3 I1, I3,–
Levels of Achievement:
Exemplary
30 (8.57142%) – 36 (10.28571%)
Questions are accurately and thoroughly answered
Proficient
20 (5.71428%) – 29 (8.28571%)
Questions are partially accurate but most to all are answered
Needs Improvement
10 (2.85714%) – 19 (5.42857%)
Answers are more inaccurate than accurate OR many are unanswered
Unacceptable
0 (0.00%) – 9 (2.57142%)
Answers are completely inaccurate or missing.
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Analyzes challenges related to the structure of couples and families (related to marriage, couple, and family counseling/therapy) B2, C2 G2–
Levels of Achievement:
Exemplary
30 (8.57142%) – 36 (10.28571%)
Questions are accurately and thoroughly answered
Proficient
20 (5.71428%) – 29 (8.28571%)
Questions are partially accurate but most to all are answered
Needs Improvement
10 (2.85714%) – 19 (5.42857%)
Answers are more inaccurate than accurate OR many are unanswered
Unacceptable
0 (0.00%) – 9 (2.57142%)
Answers are completely inaccurate or missing.
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Reflection–
Levels of Achievement:
Exemplary
16 (4.57142%) – 16 (4.57142%)
Shows strong evidence of reasoned reflection and depth.
Proficient
11 (3.14285%) – 15 (4.28571%)
Shows evidence of reasoned reflection.
Needs Improvement
6 (1.71428%) – 10 (2.85714%)
Minimal reasoned reflection
Unacceptable
0 (0.00%) – 5 (1.42857%)
Lacks reflection and depth.
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Mechanics–
Levels of Achievement:
Exemplary
10 (2.85714%) – 10 (2.85714%)
No grammatical, spelling or punctuation errors
Proficient
7 (2.00%) – 9 (2.57142%)
Minimal grammatical, spelling, or punctuation errors
Needs Improvement
4 (1.14285%) – 6 (1.71428%)
Many grammatical, spelling, or punctuation errors
Unacceptable
0 (0.00%) – 3 (0.85714%)
Numerous grammatical and punctuation errors
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