Your COU 680 ePortfolio presentation should be a polished and professional ePortfolio that includes the following pages and content. Throughout the course, you will save your artifacts to the My Items section of the ePortfolio, as seen in the Adding Files to the ePortfolio Repository document; you will then begin to set up the pages. Each page should reflect a header from the Final Project Guidelines and Rubric document.
Page One: Welcome Page
Your welcome page should introduce your ePortfolio presentation. On this page, you should introduce yourself and then add a brief summary of how you plan to use this toolbox in the field.
Page Two: Developmental and Ecological Resources
On this page, you should identify a resource (or resources) that will support you while working with children who have experienced trauma. Make sure that you address all of the bulleted items below for each resource or intervention.
- Add the resource or intervention to your ePortfolio.
- Provide a brief description of the resource or intervention.
- Address the population or person that the resource can support. Under what circumstances can it support a client?
- Identify any limitation to the resource or intervention that should be considered.
- Describe how the resource can be used in future work when supporting client treatment.
Page Three: Specific Crisis and Trauma Interventions
On this page, you should identify interventions that will support you while working with clients experiencing specific crisis and trauma. These include (but are not limited to) bereavement and grief, mental health, psychiatric crises, and sexual trauma. Make sure that you address all of the bulleted items below for each resource or intervention.
- Add the resource or intervention to your ePortfolio.
- Provide a brief description of the resource or intervention.
- Address the population or person the resource can support. Under what circumstances can it support a client?
- Identify any limitation to the resource or intervention that should be considered.
- Describe how the resource can be used in future work when supporting client treatment.
Page Four: Suicide/Homicide Interventions
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On this page, you should identify interventions that will support you while working with clients
experiencing potential violent behavior, either toward themselves or others. Make sure that you
address all of the bulleted items below for each resource or intervention. - Add the resource or intervention to your ePortfolio.
- Provide a brief description of the resource or intervention.
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Address the population or person the resource can support. Under what circumstances can it
support a client? - Identify any limitation to the resource or intervention that should be considered.
- Describe how the resource can be used in future work when supporting client treatment.
Page Five: Crisis Intervention with Disaster and Mass Violence
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On this page, you should identify interventions that will support you while working with clients
experiencing crisis intervention with disaster and/or mass violence. Make sure that you address all of
the bulleted items below for each resource or intervention. - Add the resource or intervention to your ePortfolio.
- Provide a brief description of the resource or intervention.
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Address the population or person the resource can support. Under what circumstances can it
support a client? - Identify any limitation to the resource or intervention that should be considered.
- Describe how the resource can be used in future work when supporting client treatment.
Page Six: Counselor Self-Care
This final page of your ePortfolio is your personal self-care plan. This should include all critical elements
from your final project, along with the feedback you have gained throughout the course. Make sure to
include the following:
1. Step 1: Evaluate Your Coping Skills
2. Step 2: Identify Your Self-Care Needs
3. Step 3: Discuss Barriers and Areas for Improvement
4. Step 4: Create Your Self-Care Plan
a. Bring together all items above and provide a summary of your self-care plan.
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