Part 1
Evaluate the role of your specialization within the field of counseling, beginning with your own description of the field itself, including both the history and the philosophies involved, explaining where your specialization fits, and describing how your specialization might collaborate with one other specialization that you describe. Cite the articles or other sources you use for the basis of your ideas.

In this part, specifically address the following questions:

How would you describe the key philosophies of the counseling profession: wellness, resilience, and prevention? Choose a wellness model, and explain how that model impacts the way in which counselors view clients and the concerns brought to counseling, including the kinds of information counselors need to have about their clients.
How have those key philosophies developed? Provide a brief historical perspective of the counseling profession focused on the key philosophies of wellness, resilience, and prevention. Include the beliefs and assumptions that support those philosophies.
How did your specialization develop? Identify your preferred counseling specialization and describe how the specialization emerged or the profession developed, including the key ideas on which it is based.
What other counseling specialization works well in collaboration with your specialization? Briefly explain the history of how this other specialization developed, highlighting the ways in which it complements yours.
Part 2
Paul is the example client as a foundation for illustrating how professionals in different specializations might work together to meet the needs of the client you choose:
Paul
Paul, a 32-year-old man, seeks counseling at a community mental health center. He has recently returned from his third deployment to a combat zone. He reports drinking frequently and feeling anxious. Paul’s wife has tried to reassure him that everything is fine, but he is reluctant to leave the house and has missed more than a week of work.

For this part, apply what you have learned about counseling and how professionals can work together to explain how you might collaborate with a professional in another specialization to serve the client you chose.

In this part, complete the following:

Analyze how professionals from your specialization and from the other specialization you examined in Part 1 might collaborate to benefit the person and family in the case study you chose.
Describe the role and function of each of the professionals involved.
Identify the characteristics that make each role unique and make them effective counselors for this case.
Assess how to ensure good collaboration and communication between the professionals representing the two specializations.
Identify the type of outside agency that could assist this client to promote optimal wellness, providing two examples.
Explain the standards or criteria that you would use to evaluate the collaboration.

Resources
Newman, B. M., & Newman, P. R. (2015). Development through life: A psychosocial approach (12th ed.). Belmont, CA: Cengage Learning. ISBN: 9781285459967.

Goss, S., & Anthony, K. (2009). Developments in the use of technology in counselling and psychotherapy. British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 37(3), 223–230.

Myers, J. E., & Sweeney, T. J. (2008). Wellness counseling: The evidence base for practice. Journal of Counseling and Development, 86(4), 482–493.

Rak, C. F., & Patterson, L. E. (1996). Promoting resilience in at-risk children. Journal of Counseling and Development, 74(4), 368–373.

Yeh, P-M., & Bull, M. (2012). Use of the resiliency model of family stress, adjustment and adaptation in the analysis of family caregiver reaction among families of older people with congestive heart failure. International Journal of Older People Nursing, 7(2) 117–126.