Problem
• Identify sex, gender, sexuality and other pertinent cultural similarities and differences between you and your client.
• Explain how your cultural and clinical worldviews influence your dialogue, treatment planning, and expectations of yourself and your client in the session. (Use research to support your response.)
• Describe assumptions that you have learned to make about your client's specific sex, gender, sexuality (Even if you think these assumptions, beliefs, or biases do not play a role in your current counseling relationship and approach, discuss how they could influence your counseling. Provide a specific example.)
• Describe the feelings that you have about your client. How do these feelings relate to your client's sex, gender, sexuality, or cultural identity?
• Discuss how your and your client's beliefs about health, healing, disease, mental health, and addiction differ.
• Describe how your client's experience with discrimination, oppression, and prejudice could influence his/her current level of distress, psychological functioning, and response to treatment. (Use research to support your response.)
• Explore how you attended to your client's worldview in the session (verbal and non-verbal communication).
• Describe a misunderstanding or erroneous counseling response during the counseling session that appears related to differences in cultural identification, values, or behavior.
• Identify cultural knowledge that you must obtain to gain a better understanding of your client and how you will gain it. (Use your Cultural Diversity and Cultural Competency Self-Assessment from Lesson 2 and relevant research to support your response.)
• Discuss the most important lessons that you have learned from the simulation as a mock client and as a human services provider.
The response must include a reference list. One-inch margins, double-space, Using Times New Roman 12 pnt font and APA style of writing and citations.