Programmatic Assessment: Treatment of a Particular Disorder or Condition in Individual Counseling Paper

Select a disorder or condition that you are likely to see as a professional counselor. This could be a DSM-5 disorder such as depression, social phobia, anorexia nervosa, borderline personality disorder, and so on, or it could be a condition such as bereavement, job dissatisfaction, body image problems, or adjustment to retirement.(Depression in HIV Patients)

Use the library to research your topic in depth. Focus on investigating individual counseling treatments, interventions, or strategies for working with people who have the disorder or condition.

Select 10 to 15 articles that you will use as the basis for writing your paper.

Write a 3,500- to 4,200-word paper outlining current approaches for treating the disorder or condition you selected.(Depression in HIV Patients)

Describe the theoretical basis for the approaches.

Present details on how the counselor would work individually with the client.

Include information on outcome research. What does the research say about the effectiveness of the approach or approaches that you are describing?

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.