Assignment 4.1 Adolescent Development
You read chapters about middle childhood through early adolescence. Consider that there are many challenges for this age group: peer relationships, puberty, sexual identity, multicultural development, media/social media and anxiety to name a few. Reflect on your own experiences growing up when thinking about this assignment.
For this assignment you will choose a movie or tv show that focuses on this age group [see Resources section for suggestions]. Choose a character from the movie/tv show that you would counsel and create a dialogue discussing the issue at hand. Utilize your theory/theories and techniques in your dialogue. Once you have done this choose a creative therapy and reflect on your dialogue for assignment 4.2.
The T.V. show is Blackish, character Diane Johnson
Assignment 4.2
In Assignment 4.1 you created a therapeutic dialogue between a character from a movie/tv show. For this assignment you will need to reflect on your own experiences and your choice for picking this character. You will also be asked to research some creative therapies and choose what you would utilize for this student/client.
Answer the following questions in a narrative APA format:
- Introduction
- Name the movie/tv show you picked and a short summary about the character you chose.
- Personal reflection
- reflection of your own middle school-adolescent experiences [whatever you are comfortable discussing]
- why did you choose the character?
- Reflect on the therapeutic dialogue with character
- issues for that character
- does social media play a role/in the movie/tv show? If so, describe how this influences the character. If not, what if that was added? How would this add to/or take away from the issues
- types of theory/theories used/techniques
- issues for that character
- implications for character
- Creative Therapy
- description/certifications necessary/materials needed
- how has it been used before? Benefits/drawbacks
- why chosen for this client/student
- Types of sessions
- describe at least 3 sessions that you would have with this client/student utilizing the creative therapy
- Discuss developmental approaches and why these would be appropriate
| Criteria: Adolescent development | Highly Developed | Well Developed |
| Part 4.1: Dialogue
50 points Students created a dialogue between counselor and adolescent that represents adolescent language. Students identified theory/theories that they utilized in this dialogue. |
45-50 points
Demonstrated clear, thorough, and concisely represented dialogue between counselor and child. Dialogue that used counseling theory/techniques are clearly identified in paper. |
39-44 points
Demonstrated an adequate representation of dialogue between counselor and child. Dialogue that used counseling theory/techniques were identified. |
| Part 4.2: Introduction and Personal reflection
10 points Students named a movie/tv show character they used and wrote a short summary of the character chosen. Students also reflected on their own middle school/adolescent experiences and described: why they chose the character, reflect on the dialogue with the character [issues, theory/techniques], implications.
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10 points
Students named a movie/tv show character they used and wrote a short summary of the character chosen. Students also thoroughly reflected on their own middle school/adolescent experiences and described: why they chose the character, reflect on the dialogue with the character [issues, theory/techniques], implications.
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9 points
Students named a movie/tv show character they used and wrote a short summary of the character chosen. Students adequately reflected on their own middle school/adolescent experiences and described: why they chose the character, reflect on the dialogue with the character [issues, theory/techniques], implications.
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| Part 4.2 Creative Therapy
10 Students described a creative therapy including description/certifications necessary/materials needed, how has it been used before,benefits/drawbacks, why chosen for this client/student? |
10 points
Students thoroughly described the creative therapy they would use [including the types of certifications needed, how it has been used before, benefits and drawbacks, and why they chose this for the adolescent]. |
9 points
Students adequately described the creative therapy they would use [including the types of certifications needed, how it has been used before, benefits and drawbacks, and why they chose this for the adolescent]. |
| Part 4.2 Types of Sessions
20 points Students described three sessions they would have with the child utilizing the creative therapy of choice. |
18-20 points
Students clearly describe 3 sessions using the creative therapy of their choice. |
15-17 points
Students adequately describe 3 sessions using the creative therapy of their choice. |
| Writing Mechanics and APA Grammar and Format:
5 points. Papers are written using APA 6th edition formatting
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5 points
No more than three grammatical, spelling, punctuation, and/or APA errors. Clarity of paper was not influenced by the errors.
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4 points
More than three grammatical, spelling, punctuation, or APA errors. Clarity of paper was not strongly influenced by the errors. |
| Sources:
5 points Two professional sources are used to support points |
5 points
2 professional source [e.g., journal article, textbook] or more are used throughout the paper as appropriate to thoroughly support ideas, and was documented in the references list. |
4 points
2 professional sources were used to adequately support ideas and was documented in the reference list. |
