COU 680 Week Three Intervention Paper Guidelines and Rubric
Children in Crisis
Overview: Selection of appropriate resources and interventions for clients who have experienced trauma or crisis involves consideration of biological,
developmental, cultural, and spiritual factors. Your success in treating these clients will depend heavily on a comprehensive assessment of these factors and on
matching an appropriate intervention to the client crisis or trauma experience and to the individual needs of your client.
The first final project for this course is the creation of a trauma toolbox consisting of resources selected from counseling literature that you will use to support
clients who experience symptoms of crisis and trauma. You will review different case studies throughout the course that will introduce you to how to work with
different types of clients.
This assignment represents the first of the case studies and involves identifying a treatment intervention that can be used when working with children who have
experienced trauma.
Note: You will also submit this assignment to your ePortfolio as part of your final project trauma toolbox in Week Nine. After receiving feedback, you will upload
the paper, including tracked changes that show any revisions or corrections you made, for your final toolbox submission. This is required in order to receive
credit for the final project.
Prompt: Review the Week Three Case Study Deena document, and then address the following. Be sure to support your responses with research.
You should NOT use any of the provided weekly resources or the LAPC Model (except in Week Four) for your selected intervention. Instead, please use
empirical research to locate an appropriate intervention specific to the case study. See the Clarification of Intervention document. You may use articles
from the Mental Health Counseling Guide or from other sources, as long as the intervention is grounded in research.
Write a paper that includes the following:
Provide a brief description of the intervention including:
(1) to whom it can be applied
(2) under what circumstances it can be applied
(3) any limitations to the intervention that should be considered
Provide rationale for choosing the selected approach for the case study.
Include an explanation for why selecting that intervention will help your work with the selected case study client, and provide appropriate
support.
Describe how the intervention can be used in future work when supporting the treatment approaches for clients.
Provide a link to the intervention within the body of the paper (or upload the PDF) so your instructor can easily identify and reference it. Ensure
the link is active and accessible for review by your instructor. Note: If your selected intervention is not accessible, your submission will be
returned to you.
Add the intervention to your ePortfolio.
Rubric
Guidelines for Submission: This short paper should follow the Intervention Paper Template. It should be 2 to 4 pages in length with double spacing, 12-point
Times New Roman font, and one-inch margins. All references should be cited in APA format.
Critical Elements Excellent (100%) Proficient (90%) Needs Improvement (70%) Not Evident (0%) Value
Empirically
Validated
Selects empirically validated
intervention
Does not select empirically
validated intervention
10
Description Meets “Proficient” criteria, and
description is detailed and
demonstrates exceptional insight
or analysis
Briefly describes intervention and
includes to whom it can be
applied, under what
circumstances, and any limitations
Briefly describes intervention, but
description contains gaps or
inaccuracies or lacks detail
Does not describe intervention 18.75
Rationale Meets “Proficient” criteria, and
rationale is detailed and
demonstrates exceptional insight
or analysis substantiated by
learning and scholarly resources
Provides rationale for selecting
the intervention and reflects the
appropriateness of fit to the
selected case study
Provides rationale for selecting
the intervention, but rationale
contains gaps or inaccuracies or
lacks detail, or the intervention is
not appropriate to the selected
case study
Does not provide rationale for
selecting the intervention
18.75
Explanation of
Support
Meets “Proficient” criteria, and
explanation is detailed and
demonstrates exceptional insight
or analysis substantiated by
learning and scholarly resources
Explains how the selected
intervention will provide
appropriate support to the case
study client
Explains how the selected
intervention will provide
appropriate support to the case
study client, but explanation
contains gaps or inaccuracies or
lacks detail
Does not explain how the selected
intervention will provide
appropriate support to client
18.75
Future
Application
Meets “Proficient” criteria, and
description of future application is
detailed and demonstrates
exceptional insight or analysis
Describes how the intervention
can be used in future work when
supporting the treatment
approaches for clients
Describes how the intervention
can be used in future work when
supporting the treatment
approaches for clients, but
description contains gaps or
inaccuracies or lacks detail
Does not describe how the
intervention can be used in future
work when supporting the
treatment approaches for clients
18.75
Link to or PDF of
Resource
Provides an active link to or PDF of
the intervention
Does not provide an active link to
or PDF of the intervention, or
intervention is not accessible
10
Critical Elements Excellent (100%) Proficient (90%) Needs Improvement (70%) Not Evident (0%) Value
Articulation of
Response
Submission has no major errors
related to grammar, spelling,
syntax, or organization
Submission has some errors
related to grammar, spelling,
syntax, or organization but they
are minimal and do not negatively
impact readability and articulation
of main ideas
Submission has major errors
related to grammar, spelling,
syntax, or organization that
negatively impact readability and
articulation of main ideas
Submission has critical errors
related to grammar, spelling,
syntax, or organization that
prevent understanding of ideas
5
Total 100%
