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Essay Instructions: The purpose of this paper is to compare/contrast the following assessment tools, the Myers Briggs Personality Inventory (MBTI) and the Wide Range Inventory Achievement Test (WRAT3) according to the following guidelines;


a. . the purpose and rationale of each instrument
Also, please include under what assumptions each test was created (the MBTI assumes every person has an innate personality type as defined by Jung)

b. the test scales and the types of scores yielded
c. the reliability of each test
d. the validity of each test and normative data
e. the appropriate uses and limitations of the test
f.. similar tests which could be considered in lieu of either test
g. relevant research on each instrument
h. the summary should include my evaluation of each instrument?s usefulness and value as well as any recommendations or conclusions that I can draw from the research.

Be sure to include the exact name of each instrument, the name of the authors or creators (Isabel Myers and Katherine Briggs for the MBTI), the publisher, the copyright dates (first published, dates of revisions, date of version being used).


Also, please define the following;
1. appropriate characteristics of test taker (age, grade, demographics)
2 Current cost information
3. administration requirements, administrator?s qualifications, and procedures
and interpreters qualifications
4. Types of scores derived/reported

Please include no less than 4 references (including the respective manuals and items selected from peer reviewed journals. Headings and subheadings should be used and APA style maintained

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me. The paper should be written at the doctoral level and up to the standards of peer reviewed journals.

Essay Instructions: The purpose of this project is to contextualize this course into a practical, pastoral counseling model utilizing a solution-focused approach under the influence of an overarching goal. Your model should operate, in all aspects, under the authority of Scripture, depend upon the presence and power of the Holy Spirit, and partner with responsible members/ministries of the body of Christ. This triadic relationship is for the purpose of furthering the growth and development of care-seekers, fostering a sense of accountability as a responsible member of a local church.

A written case study of the Hallmark presentation Crossroads: A Story of Forgiveness will set the stage for applying our pastoral counseling model in the final project; you will act as a pastoral counselor seeking to help one of the four main characters (Bruce: the father; Josh: the oldest son; Brody: the youngest son; or Justin: the teenager responsible for two counts of negligent homicide) find their way back into a family that has experienced the tragic loss of wife/mother, and sister complicated even further by some pre-existing problematic patterns and spiritual needs. The movie reflects how an average family in America may handle grief and loss without the obvious influence of the Lord Jesus and a local evangelical church. However, in this context, you are to assume the family has some kind of connection to your church in order to apply what you have learned to one of these three struggling individuals.

Abstract:
I am junior member of the presbytery and a member of the pastoral counseling office of The Apostolic Church, Riverdale, MD. My church?s vision is fashioned by Apostle Paul?s words in Philippians 3:10; ??that I may know Him, and the power of His resurrection?? This vision I believe in and I support further with Paul?s word in Galatians 6:14 ??But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ?? My Christian life is to know Christ and the power of His resurrection and glory in the redemption brought to me through Christ?s death on the cross. I will be using a solution-based, short-term approach to pastoral counseling influenced by the Hawkins? Pastoral Assessment Model and Counseling Scenario. After reviewing the case study and ancillary websites, I am going to choose Bruce as the care-seeker requesting an appointment in my ministry context.

Table of Contents (TOC): The TOC should provide the reader with a clear picture of the journey ahead. It should contain the following headings and any sub-headings useful for developing an efficient and effective approach to pastoral counseling.

Part 1: The Counseling Setting. Preparing to counsel is as important as the actual experience. If you prepare well, you can empower the helping relationship to flourish and facilitate change. The following items should be considered and explained as you prepare your SBBPC project. Refer to your documents when appropriate and place them in the Appendix.

1. Staff and/or leadership orientation to Solution-Based, Brief Pastoral Counseling. Involving your leadership in a discussion about SBBPC may facilitate budgeting for the resources used in this area of ministry. The orientation should provide a rationale for SBBPC, an overview of the process, where you will counsel, boundaries to be established in order to provide a safe and secure setting for yourself and counselees, and the basic assumptions guiding SBBPC.

Note: throughout your project, identify the assumption(s) that supports an action or intervention.


2. Annotated References to be used in bibliotherapy/supportive feedback. Your project will require you to generate annotated references for at least five subject areas (grief, anger, and forgiveness are required; see the Biblical Counseling Quick Reference Guide for other possible subjects). You are to provide at least two entries per subject. This annotated bibliography is to be formatted according to Turabian Reference Style and placed in the Appendix. Please keep annotations to about 100 words. See example of annotated entries below.

ANGER

Carlson, Dwight L. 2000. Overcoming hurts and anger. Eugene: Harvest House. ISBN: 0736901965

This book is a real help when dealing with anger. The author gives you steps on how to prevent your anger and deal with past anger in a Christian manner. He gives examples of mishandled anger, biblical principles about anger, and how to handle anger in a Christlike way.

LaHaye, Tim and Bob Phillips. 2002. Anger is a choice. Grand Rapids: Zondervan. ISBN: 0310242835

Tim LaHaye and Bob Phillips tell you what you need to know to control the emotion of anger, enabling you to heal damaged relationships and help others deal with their anger as well. The authors use real life examples, charts, diagrams, and self-tests. This book not only gives hope of real change, it also lays out a process of getting there.

Lester, Andrew D. 2003. The angry Christian. Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press.
ISBN: 0664225195

Dr. Lester's sharing of his own personal stories causes his work to speak to the real issues anger brings to daily living. He begins by asserting everyone experiences anger, but our culture teaches us to ignore it or bury it. He leaves no stone unturned in covering the topic. Though the last three chapters have some wonderful suggestions about how to deal with anger in a constructive, meaningful way, the work he presents from history, science and theology is very insightful and paints a detailed picture of our anger response and the meaning we assign to it. He writes making use of the narrative perspective.

Part 2: The Counselor?s Relational Style. This discussion should:

1. Identify the relational language and assessments you will most likely use in pastoral counseling (DISC and/or Myers Briggs). Describe in your own words how your relational style thinks, feels, chooses, and relates to others when you are at church (guarded: ?This is expected of me). Conversely, think about how you really are at home or under pressure (unmasked: ?This is me?). Review the 360? Interview, Communication Skills assessment, and Power of Connections for contributing material.
2. Provide an overview of what you are doing to check/control your behavioral blend to make sure that it aligns with your overarching goal for life and ministry? Now that you have synthesized course materials, such as Why Don?t We Listen Better? into your Relational Style Action Plan, continue the training plan and revise/recommit to it regularly. Place the revised My Relational Style Action Plan in the Appendix.

Part 3: The Counseling Structure/Strategy. Follow the outline given in the PPt: ?The Hawkins? Pastoral Counseling Scenario Part 3? and over the course of at least 3-4 sessions, create the experience of walking your counselee through P1, P2, P3, and P4. Your strategy for structuring a response to your counselee should:

1. Indicate which assumption(s) is guiding your actions in the different phases or aspects of this counseling engagement;
2. Maintain a clear distinction of phases, aims, roles, and goals in the counseling structure/strategy;
3. Utilize insights, techniques, word pictures, solution-focused tracking questions, and the supportive feedback technique appropriately;
4. Prove that you can demonstrate fit in P1:

After observing the interaction of the struggling family members, identify the relational style (behavioral blend) of your counselee (Bruce, Josh, Brody, or Justin) in P1. Describe the adjustments you might make in order to build rapport and encourage a willingness to change. For example, if you are a high D and Brody is a high S, describe how you would align or control your relational style in order to convey empathy, respect, and authenticity. Skill set: what active listening techniques, and/or spiritual disciplines might be used for ?Dness? to demonstrate fit with ?Sness??
5. By the completion of P2, in collaboration with the counselee, provide a Pastoral Assessment which clearly describes the problem/goal and acknowledges counselee?s strengths and resources for creating a future without the problem(s) [make sure to include the necessary skill set: techniques, word pictures, and or tracking questions used in P2].
6. In collaboration with the counselee, develop a clear vision for pursuing a hope-filled future in P3 [make sure to include the necessary skill set: techniques, word pictures, and or tracking questions to be used in P3].
7. Anticipate consolidating, supporting and securing change in the final session(s) of P4 [make sure to include the necessary skill set: techniques, word pictures, tracking questions, and partnerships used in P4].

P4: The Counseling Summation. Your main objective in this concluding part of the project is to discuss the versatility of the supportive feedback technique and how you plan to grow and develop from this counseling experience. Therefore, your summation should:

1. Develop an approach for the supportive feedback technique which anticipates the possibility of a counselee?s progress, static/sameness, taking a turn for the worse, or getting off track.
2. Develop a fully explained procedure for a reflective praxis of your performance in the counseling process (see GRACE acronym); and
3. Identify and secure a wise individual who will help you debrief; collaboratively develop guidelines (with full explanation) to facilitate the debriefing experience (see Part 4 Power Point).

Essay Instructions: Interview a person you feel comfortable asking about their personality and attitudes.


• Submit your Interview Profile. You must choose a person who is close to your own age, and interview that person to learn more about them. In addition to the interview, compare and contrast the responses from your interview with your own responses to the same question. You must report your findings in an informative 1,400- to 1,750-word paper, formatted according to APA guidelines, and include the following elements:

• Does the interviewee remember information more accurately if he or she observes the behavior being performed or does he or she prefer to read how the behavior is performed?

• o Does the interviewee prefer studying in a library, or at home where there are background noises and some distractions?

o Has the person you are interviewing taken the Myers Briggs test? Report the results. (Use the website we’ve used in class: similarminds.com. or http://www.41q.com/ )

o Does the interviewee think these results are accurate? Why or why not?

o Which experiences does this person think contributed most in the development of his or her personality?

o Does this person feel that he or she is self-monitoring in regards to his or her attitudes? How or how not?

o What does the interviewee feel was the strongest influence on his or her attitudes?

o What role does your interviewee think a person’s race, gender, or ethnicity play when forming that person’s personality and attitudes?
o Does this person feel he or she is better at tasks when intrinsically motivated or extrinsically motivated?

• Format your paper according to APA standards.

Essay Instructions: • Interview a person you feel comfortable asking about their personality and attitudes. (I had told the instructor I was interviewing a close friend of 20 years, Nicole. Which is a 27-year-old drug counselor, and we both live in a small town in PA.)

• Submit your Profile Report. For this project you will choose a person that is close to your own age and interview that person to learn more about them. In addition to the interview, compare and contrast the responses from your interview with your own responses to the same questions. Discuss the following:

o The learning and memory process. For instance, does the interviewee remember information more accurately if he/she observes the behavior being performed, or does he/she prefer to read how the behavior is performed?
o Does the interviewee prefer studying in a library, or at home where there are background noises and some distractions?
o Has the person you are interviewing taken the Myers Briggs test? Report the results.
o Does your interviewee feel these results are accurate? Why or why not?
o Which experiences does this person feel contributed most in the development of his/her personality?
o Does this person feel that he/she is self-monitoring in regards to his/her attitudes? How or how not?
o What does the interviewee feel was the strongest influence on his/her attitudes?
o What role does your interviewee feel a person’s race, gender, or ethnicity play when forming that person’s personality and attitudes?
o Does this person feel he/she is better at tasks when intrinsically motivated or extrinsically motivated?

• Your final project should fulfill the following requirements:

o Be 1,400-1,750 words in length
o Formatted according to APA guidelines
o Submitted as a Microsoft® Word attachment


If you have any questions please email me. jchipps@hotmail.com Thank You…


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