Description

Model Description of Solution Focus Brief a Therapy in 6–8 pages and provide a brief overview of the history of the selected model and its founders. The essential ideas of the model should also be discussed. Your consideration and exploration of the selected model should be more general at this stage, somewhat similar to how a textbook might examine the concepts, assumptions, and methods of a model.

Application of the model to your case study should be avoided in the model description and should appear in the Model Application section of this assignment. Cite original sources, and be sure to address questions such as:

What is the role of the counselor or therapist?

What is the theory of change?

What is the target of intervention?

What is the assessment from this approach?

What does this approach say about normalcy, health, and pathology?

How might this model work with and be sensitive to the cultural and diversity factors in this case?

Is this a strength-based or deficit-based model? Provide a rationale for your selection.

What are some examples of intervention from this approach?

The Model Application should be 3–4 pages in length, discussing the case using concepts and ideas from your chosen model. Demonstrate that you can apply the essential ideas of the selected model or approach in the case and, where appropriate, discuss issues such as assessment, diagnosis, intervention, termination, and so forth. A successful paper will demonstrate that you understand the main ideas of the approach as well as the underlying assumptions implicit in the model. You may also include some hypothetical sample dialogue from the therapy.

Your application of the model to the case will re-examine some of the previously explored model concepts, though the emphasis will now be on how the model's concepts and methods will be specifically applicable to your case. Please be sure to stay consistent with your chosen model. Your analysis of the selected model's approach to diagnosis or assessment and its application to the hypothetical case study should address the following:

How will the role of the counselor or therapist influence how this case is understood and worked with?

What specific aspects of this case will be affected by this role?

How will change occur within the family or couple in the case, according to the theory of change?

What aspects of the case will be focused on to actualize change, given the selected model's overall target of intervention?

How will this case be understood or assessed within the selected model's framework? The model's assumptions around normalcy, health, and pathology might be examined here as they apply to assessing the case.

How might this model work with and be sensitive to the cultural and diversity factors in this case?

How is this model's status as either strength-based or deficit-based relevant to understanding and working with this case?

How will the interventions from this approach be applied in this case?

What specific aspects or dynamics of the case will be addressed by these interventions?

How would you describe the approach to diagnosis or assessment of the model or approach selected and its application to the hypothetical case study?

Again, please remember to use original sources throughout to support your assertions and conclusions. That means if you are discussing structural family therapy, for example, you will want to cite the work of the founder (in this case, Minuchin). Support your ideas with research, textbook citations, and anecdotes. Examples of primary journals for research and reference include:

Family Process.

Journal of Marital and Family Therapy.

Journal of Strategic and Systemic Therapies.

Journal of Family Psychology.