Respond to the following in a minimum of 175 words: 

• Describe one of the qualitative research designs from Ch. 12, “Narrative Research: Interpreting Lived Experience,” of Counseling Research: Quantitative, Qualitative, and Mixed Methods. 
• Compare and contrast it to another research design you read about.
• How might the qualitative research design you selected be used in another research project? Support your response with relevant details and/or examples.

Reference Letter

Purpose: You will demonstrate an understanding of the basic theories and techniques of counseling psychology, identify the characteristics of an effective helper, and discuss ethical attitudes and codes relevant to psychology.

Guidelines: Fast-forward ten years. You have just graduated with a doctorate from a counseling psychology program. You are applying for a position with a foundation-supported community health center.

Rather than asking you to submit multiple reference letters, the health center wants you to have one instructor from your graduate program write a comprehensive letter describing all aspects of your educational journey, your effectiveness as a counselor, and your ability to act ethically in a variety of circumstances.

You approach your training director, Dr. Smith, and ask for a letter to be submitted with your application packet. Dr. Smith agrees to your request, and so you give Dr. Smith the instruction sheet below. For this project, you must take on the role of Dr. Smith and write an effective, professional letter (including appropriate salutation and closing) that will convince the community health center to hire you. The letter must cover all areas requested by the foundation and emphasize your mastery of the counseling psychology discipline.  (Please reference the rubric accompanying this assignment for scoring details.)

Here is the instruction sheet:

To the person providing this reference,

Many of the references we receive extol the virtues of the applicant and predict future success. We want to determine that the applicant has a good understanding of the counseling psychology profession and all that entails. Please comment on the items listed below as they apply to the applicant:

• length of time and capacity in which you have known the applicant
• focus of the applicant’s studies in the graduate program
• theoretical approach that the applicant most frequently uses and how he or she came to identify that approach as the best fit for the applicant
• therapeutic techniques that the applicant has used successfully with a variety of patients in practicum settings
• response of the applicant to supervision and in regard to countertransference and boundaries
• an ethical dilemma that the applicant has faced and how it was addressed
• strengths of the applicant that will be useful in preventing “burnout”

Thank you for your time and for the information you are providing, which will help us to evaluate this applicant.

250 words

As a social work professional, you will have the opportunity to use technology frequently in your practice. Consider how you might use technology within the context of social work supervision.

• What are the benefits and challenges of incorporating technology into clinical supervision?
• Describe ways that supervisors may use technology ethically.
• Describe unethical situations involving technology that could potentially occur in social work supervision.
• What is (or will be) the most difficult aspect of using technology as a supervisor?
• How might you address this challenge?

Your Personal Moral Theory

Assignment

Required Resources

Read/review the following resources for this activity:

• Textbook: Chapter 13
• Lesson
• Narrated PowerPoint TutorialLinks to an external site. (Make sure to review this tutorial before you begin recording.)

Introduction

In this session, you have been considering moral-ethical dilemmas you yourself faced or that you know of that you either resolved or failed to resolve, but hopefully learned from. You may never have given much thought to ethical theory nor what ethical premises/paradigms you have unconsciously held.

You will be focusing on this case for this assignment:

In discussions of human development, the focus is often on child development. While the lifespan perspective identifies that no one period of life has more influence on development than another, the stages of adolescence, early adulthood, middle adulthood, and late adulthood all have the opportunity for dramatic changes to the individual.

Initial Post

Based on your knowledge, experiences, and observations of the growth and development during adolescence, early adulthood, middle adulthood, and late adulthood, which stage brings the most change? Explain why you believe this stage of development involves the greatest amount of changes and include examples.