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You are advising a new counselor who is entering the field on how to maintain his or her effectiveness and minimize ethical challenges. Devise a plan of wellness for the counselor that includes a structure for supervision, provision to obtain continuing education, and maintenance of personal wellness. Compare and contrast HIPAA and FERPA. Explain the differences between the two privacy legislations and where they overlap. Explain how both HIPAA and FERPA impact the provision of counseling in crisis circumstances. Describe the required conditions that must exist for the outcome of Tarasoff v. Regents of University of California to be applicable. What constitutes a duty to warn? Explain the concepts of negligence and malpractice, and describe how these principles intersect. Describe how a counselor might engage in negligence or malpractice as a result of failing to assess and address spiritual and religious issues.

1. How does disequilibrium play a role in crisis situations? 2. You are a counselor at a local mental health agency. You have just read the intake of a male client that you will see next week. His presenting problem is that he witnessed his brother being shot and killed. What you anticipate while working with this client? 3. In the scenario presented in question #2, describe what you might consider to be the provoking stressor events and how those might be described by the client. 4. Again, in the scenario presented in question #2, describe some of the resources that might be needed while working with this client.

After working out with Tommy, Sara comes to you and complains of being very sore for the last 24 to 72 hours. Explain to Sara what the soreness that she is specifically experiencing is while also indicating to her how this soreness occurred structurally and what the causes of soreness are. Sara, at first, thought her soreness was due to hyperplasia of the muscle fibers, but you must explain to her why this did not happen to her. Also, identify what Sara could do to decrease the severity of this soreness from happening again.

What types of experiences inside and outside of the classroom do you want to engage in during your college journey?

Community Corrections by Robert D. Hanser edition 2, Chapter 3,4 and 5 You are the corrections commissioner in the State of Euphoria. The Office of Probation, Parole and Correctional Alternatives has just been merged into your department. The office has never had any qualifications or required training for the community supervision officers that it hires. You suspect that political patronage has traditionally been the key to getting these jobs. What should be the qualifications for such jobs, keeping in mind what you have learned about the kinds of programs they might be working with? What should you, as the corrections commissioner, do to encourage the recruitment of quality officers? Should community supervision officers get the same training as your corrections officers? Should probation, parole and community treatment officers all get the same training? Keeping in mind the roles that they play and the kinds of functions they serve, what should their training include? What should they know about civil and criminal liability? What can be done to make these jobs appeal to qualified individuals and to ensure that they perform their jobs effectively and ethically and avoid burnout and frequent turnover?