Fictional Character

Question 1

Imagine you are working for a successful company that has spent time focusing strategically on its organizational behavior. Your company has started to gain recognition from similar companies regarding your effective groups and teams. Recently your company has been approached by other companies to develop and present some of your best practices and lessons learned.

Write a 700- to 1,050-word handout (brochure, chart, or PowerPoint®) that discusses your company’s best practices and lessons learned for developing effective groups and teams.

Address the following in your handout:

• Determine strategies that can be used to develop effective groups and teams.
• Describe methods that can be used to facilitate phases of team development.
• Consider the company you selected and used in Week One and Week Two and describe strategies and methods you think the company uses to create effective groups and teams. Explain why.

Cite 3 peer-reviewed, scholarly, or similar references to support your handout.

Format your handout according to APA guidelines.

Question 2

Use yourself or a fictional character as the subject of an interview that seeks to answer a referral question of your choice. The interview will seek to gather all of the information that relates to the Mental Status Exam provided in your course text, which deals with the examinee’s appearance, manner, approach, orientation, alertness, thought processes, mood, and affect.

• Include examples of issues that would be addressed in this interview and strategies that would be used in working with this individual.
• Identify social and cultural factors related to the assessment and evaluation of the individuals
• How would the understanding of ethical/legal violations be beneficial to you as a counselor and wh