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Emergency! Just had a bad tutor experience and now in a rush to get this discussion assignment done before this Sunday 7:30 pm London time.
This is just a short one-page discussion. I’m going to attach everything. Video link will be also submitted but there’s also a transcript. Video is about 7mins long. In the video it’s quite sad cause the boy looks so young still and didn’t have a mother or father around to raise him.
Please take the time to read all information and write in a natural way (discussion based – like I’m talking to you). APA format is required and I will also use Grammarly to check and then have a second tutor to check your work.
I have also provided examples of what other people have done to give you and idea.
I need to have this done by Sunday 13 Jan 7 pm London time please.
Title of the Video
Write a brief description of the video you selected for this discussion.
Interest Description
Explain why this client issue and/or population interests you.
Insights Gained
Explain any insights you gained or conclusions you drew about working with that client issue or population.
Personal Response
Explain how this video and chapter may have confirmed or challenged your interest in working with this client issue or population, and explain why.
Discussion: Client Issues
Clinical mental health counselors, like doctors and lawyers, practice in specialty areas. These areas are specific to client issues or populations for which the counselor has had advanced clinical training and experience. Often, counselors enter a training program with an idea of the client issues or populations for which they have a passion. These specialty areas include, but are not limited to, drug and alcohol treatment, eating disorders, trauma, crisis management, depression, and/or anxiety. You might not know what area of counseling you’d like to practice, and that’s OK! Feel free to pick a topic that is most interesting to you at this point in your training.
For this Discussion, you will explore various client issues and analyze a video concerning a client population or issue that interests you. Your analysis, and the resulting dialogue with your colleagues, will help you as you work to determine the client issue or population with which you would like to specialize.
To Prepare:
Review Section 3, “Client Issues and Advocacy,” from the Erford course text.
oIn addition to the assigned reading (Chapter 8), select one additional chapter from Section 3 to review and incorporate into this discussion: Chapters 7, 9, 10, 11, or 12.
Search the Walden Library and choose a video that demonstrates a client population or client issue that interests you. Think about why you selected this video. The video should align with the chapter you have selected.
Also, as you review the video, notice what the clinical mental health counselor does during the session.
After reviewing the video, reflect on anything that surprised you in the video.
Think about any insights you gained or conclusions you drew about client issues and this population from the video and the chapter, noting specifically if anything reinforced your desire to work with this client issue or population.
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Post the following:
The title and a brief description of the video you selected.
Explain why this client issue and/or population interests you.
Explain any insights you gained or conclusions you drew about working with that client issue or population.
Finally, explain how this video and chapter may have confirmed or challenged your interest in working with this client issue or population, and explain why.
**In addition to citing the video you selected, be sure to support your postings and responses with specific citations to the Learning Resources (chapter readings) and additional scholarly resources as needed to support your perspectives.
WK 7
Discussion
Draft
This is just a short one-page discussion.
I have paid extra due to required reading. Please let me know if I have offered a sufficient
amount?
Please take the time to read all information and write in a natural way (discussion based –
like I’m talking to you). APA format is required and I will also use Grammarly to check
and then have a second tutor to check your work.
I have also provided examples of what other people have done to give you and idea.
I need to have this done by Sunday 13 Jan 7 pm London time please.
Title of the Video
Write a brief description of the video you selected for this discussion.
Interest Description
Explain why this client issue and/or population interests you.
Insights Gained
Explain any insights you gained or conclusions you drew about working with that client issue
or population.
Personal Response
Explain how this video and chapter may have confirmed or challenged your interest in
working with this client issue or population, and explain why.
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Discussion: Client Issues
Clinical mental health counselors, like doctors and lawyers, practice in specialty areas. These
areas are specific to client issues or populations for which the counselor has had advanced
clinical training and experience. Often, counselors enter a training program with an idea of
the client issues or populations for which they have a passion. These specialty areas include,
but are not limited to, drug and alcohol treatment, eating disorders, trauma, crisis
management, depression, and/or anxiety. You might not know what area of counseling you’d
like to practice, and that’s OK! Feel free to pick a topic that is most interesting to you at this
point in your training.
For this Discussion, you will explore various client issues and analyze a video concerning a
client population or issue that interests you. Your analysis, and the resulting dialogue with
your colleagues, will help you as you work to determine the client issue or population with
which you would like to specialize.
To Prepare:
Review Section 3, “Client Issues and Advocacy,” from the Erford course text.
In addition to the assigned reading (Chapter 8), select one additional chapter from Section 3
to review and incorporate into this discussion: Chapters 7, 9, 10, 11, or 12.
Search the Walden Library and choose a video that demonstrates a client population or client
issue that interests you. Think about why you selected this video. The video should align with
the chapter you have selected.
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Also, as you review the video, notice what the clinical mental health counselor does during
the session.
After reviewing the video, reflect on anything that surprised you in the video.
Think about any insights you gained or conclusions you drew about client issues and this
population from the video and the chapter, noting specifically if anything reinforced your
desire to work with this client issue or population.
By Day 3
Post the following:
The title and a brief description of the video you selected.
Explain why this client issue and/or population interests you.
Explain any insights you gained or conclusions you drew about working with that client issue
or population.
Finally, explain how this video and chapter may have confirmed or challenged your interest
in working with this client issue or population, and explain why.
**In addition to citing the video you selected, be sure to support
your postings and responses with specific citations to the Learning Resources (chapter
readings) and additional scholarly resources as needed to support your perspectives.
I’d like to focus on Drug and Alcohol (addiction) Treatment Approaches
I have copied Chp 8 and attached as a zip file.
There are also other examples of this topic from Section 3 in other chapters.
Personally I was especially interested in the treatment/education/prevention of drugs/acholic
with youth. I liked the chapter that mentioned “wilderness counseling” (where they take
troubled youths out in nature to reconnect). Along with using traditional treatments.
One of the things that surprised me with the video is how it seemed (from my perspective)
that the counselor was drilling him w lots of questions. I’m not experienced to know if this is
done on purpose to help the client (the young boy in video) to see his areas of concern or if
the counselor becomes maybe a little too detached?
I could see how denial played a part in this as you could see the areas where he was putting
himself at risk and how is life was becoming unmanageable (in car while others under the
influence were driving and that was normal to him, doing orgies when he was too high to
realize at the time (something he wouldn’t have done sober) and hitting his girlfriend.
Additional example in Section 3 can be taken from Chapter 12, “Voices Frome the Field 12.2
, A Case of Mistaken Identity” page 388 to 389
Transcript of video (I will also try to upload it)
Volume 2 New Releases: Assessment Tools: Substance Use
Assessment Series, Volume 2, Episode 62, Substance Use
Assessment A-3
in Volume 2 New Releases: Assessment Tools: Substance Use Assessment Series, Volume 2, Episode
62 (Carlsbad, CA: Symptom Media, 2014), 7 mins
https://search-alexanderstreetcom.ezp.waldenulibrary.org/view/work/bibliographic_entity%7Cvideo_work%7C3408919?s
ource=relateditems
Abstract / Summary
Upon questioning, Shane, a teenager, describes his casual relationship to several
substances including alcohol and marijuana. Shane also admits to trying other drugs
such as ecstasy. Despite using daily, he does not feel he is addicted and finds no
reason to stop his drug use. The absence of his parents and his living in an unstable
home reveal a lack of structure and support in his life.
Field of Interest
Counseling & Therapy
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2014 Symptom Media
Content Type
Counseling session
Duration
7 mins
Format
Video
Original Release Date
2014
Publisher
Symptom Media
Place Published / Released
Carlsbad, CA
Release Date
2014
Series Number
Volume 2, Episode 62
Subject
Counseling & Therapy; Psychology & Counseling; Health Sciences; Addictions;
Theoretical Approaches to Counseling; Substance abuse; Vícios; Dependencias;
Teoria do Aconselhamento; Teorías del Asesoramiento; Alcohol abuse; Drug abuse;
Intoxication; Substance abuse counseling
Series / Program
Volume 2 New Releases: Assessment Tools: Substance Use Assessment Series
Keywords and Translated Subjects
Vícios; Dependencias; Teoria do Aconselhamento; Teorías del Asesoramiento
[sil.]
00:15SymptomMedia Substance Use Assessment A-3
00:30OFF CAMERA What types of substances do you use?
00:35SHANE This is between us, right? Okay, well I don’t know, like weed, beer, I mean
that’s the usual but I’ve tried other stuff like Ecstasy.
00:55OFF CAMERA How many days per week or month do you use?
01:00SHANE Um, I don’t know, maybe like once like a month or something, two, twice a
month. It really depends.
01:15OFF CAMERA How much of the thing that youprefer the most do you average using
and how often and what is it?
01:25SHANE I don’t know, well, I smoke weed, like, every day after school. You know,
whenever. Itdoesn’t hurt anything.
01:35OFF CAMERA What is the lowest amount you use in a setting? And how often that
amount?
01:40SHANE The lowest? Probably, like, a bowl, like before I go to class, or something, you
know, just to chill me out.
01:50OFF CAMERA What is the highest amount you use in a setting and how often?
01:55SHANE (sighs) Endless. Sometimes at parties it doesn’t stop coming.
02:00OFF CAMERA Estimate how much money you spend per week or month buying the
marijuana.
02:10SHANE I don’t know, maybe 3, 400 dollars.
02:15OFF CAMERA How often do you become intoxicated, high, stoned, or altered?
02:20SHANE Every day.
OFF CAMERA How often do you have blackouts, not remembering?
02:25SHANE Maybe like once, twice a month.
02:30OFF CAMERA How often do you pass out, become unconscious?
02:35SHANE Hasn’t happened yet.
OFF CAMERA How often do you use the marijuana and drive, still under the influence?
02:40SHANE Every time I drive.
02:45OFF CAMERA How often do you ride in carsdriven by someone else who is
influenced?
02:50SHANE A Lot, um… I only drive with people that I smoke with so whenever
we’re driving we’re already high.
03:05OFF CAMERA Has anything bad happened to you while you were having blackouts or
passed out; like being robbed, raped, injured?
03:10SHANE Yeah, uh, I passed out in an alley, onetime, and I got my wallet taken and beat
up.
03:20OFF CAMERA Describe any aggression, neglect, or bad behaviors you
remember doing while using.
03:25SHANE I think I hit my girlfriend one time. I don’t really remember that well. It was
kind of a crazy night, but …
03:35OFF CAMERA Describe any aggression, neglect or bad behaviors other people
reported you did but you do not remember while using.
03:45SHANE Like I said, when I hit my girlfriend. I barely remember that. She broke up
with me because of that.
03:50OFF CAMERA Describe any sexual events you participated in, which you would not
haveparticipated in in had you not been using the substance, and what your feelings were like
later.
04:00SHANE This is between us? I’ve done a feworgies.
04:10OFF CAMERA Do you have any substance related legal charges?
04:15SHANE No.
OFF CAMERA How has the marijuana impacted your health, including sleep and appetite?
04:20SHANE It helps me sleep and eat. That’s all I know.
04:25OFF CAMERA How has it impacted your relationships?
04:30SHANE Pretty well. Most people I know smoke, so it’s …
04:35OFF CAMERA How has it impacted your school work, work and social life?
04:40SHANE It helps all those things.
04:45OFF CAMERA Do you, or did you, have relatives who used marijuana?
04:50SHANE Yeah.
04:55OFF CAMERA In childhood, did your role models avoid using substances or use
substances? And what did you learn from your role models?
05:05SHANE Probably used, uh, I don’t know. My mom left when I was young, so did my
dad, so, I don’t know, kind of grew up on my own.
05:15OFF CAMERA Describe any self harm or suicidalactions you took because of using
substances.
05:20SHANE There hasn’t been any.
05:25OFF CAMERA Describe accomplishments in life you would have made if you’d not
been using substances.
05:30SHANE I’m not sure.
05:35OFF CAMERA What have you done to try to limit or stop your substance use?
05:40SHANE I haven’t.
05:45OFF CAMERA What have you learned about medical and psychological causes of your
substance use? And what do you plan to do about that?
05:50SHANE Nothing.
05:55OFF CAMERA What do you want your family, friends, co-workers, and other people
to know about your substance use?
06:00SHANE I don’t really care.
06:05OFF CAMERA Who are people who would support you in limiting, or stopping,
substanceuse?
06:10SHANE Uh, maybe my teachers or I don’t know, I mean …
06:20OFF CAMERA Who are people who will try to keep you using substances? And what
would your solutions be?
06:30SHANE Probably my friends. And, uh, uh, I’m not sure.
06:35OFF CAMERA Describe any bad experience from substance use that would motivate
you to use medications or be in treatment or stop.
06:50SHANE There, uh, hasn’t been any times that have made me want to stop, so …
06:55OFF CAMERA What do you hope your substance use will be like one year from now?
07:00SHANE Probably the same.
07:05[sil.]
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08/01/2019
Week 7: Counselor Roles and Client Issues
Walden University
COUN 6100: Introduction to Clinical Mental Health Counseling
A critical step toward becoming a counseling professional involves
determining the client population and client issues that you would like to
work with. Clinical mental health counseling involves programs and
assistance covering a variety of populations and issues, and there may be
more than one area or population that you have some interest in. You will
have the opportunity this week to review these various issues and
populations. This will provide you with additional information to help
determine the subject for your Final Project interview.
This week, you will develop a better understanding of potential issues that
clients will be dealing with, and how to recognize these issues so you are
better able to aid the client. In addition, you will identify the counselor you
will be interviewing for your Final Project.
Analyze client issues and challenges
Identify an interview subject
Justify your interview subject selection
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COUN
6100:
Introduction
to Orientation
Clinical Mental
Health
Counseling
Erford,
B. T.
(Ed.). (2018).
to the
counseling
profession:
Advocacy, ethics, and essential professional foundations (3rd ed.).
Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education.
Chapter 8, “Mental Health and Rehabilitation Counseling” (pp. 249–
268)
Document: Final Project Overview (PDF)
Document: Final Project Interview Subject Template (Word Document)
Walden Library. (2018). Counseling and therapy in video [Video file
series]. Alexandria, VA: Alexander Street Press.
Note: You will access various media programs from the Walden Library
databases.
Clinical mental health counselors, like doctors and lawyers, practice in
specialty areas. These areas are specific to client issues or populations for
which the counselor has had advanced clinical training and experience.
Often, counselors enter a training program with an idea of the client issues or
populations for which they have a passion. These specialty areas include, but
are not limited to, drug and alcohol treatment, eating disorders, trauma, crisis
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management, depression, and/or anxiety. You might not know what area of
Walden University
counseling you’d like to practice, and that’s OK! Feel free to pick a topic that
COUN 6100: Introduction to Clinical Mental Health Counseling
is most interesting to you at this point in your training.
For this Discussion, you will explore various client issues and analyze a video
concerning a client population or issue that interests you. Your analysis, and
the resulting dialogue with your colleagues, will help you as you work to
determine the client issue or population with which you would like to
specialize.
To Prepare:
Review Section 3, “Client Issues and Advocacy,” from the Erford course
text.
In addition to the assigned reading (Chapter 8), select one additional
chapter from Section 3 to review and incorporate into this discussion:
Chapters 7, 9, 10, 11, or 12.
Search the Walden Library and choose a video that demonstrates a client
population or client issue that interests you. Think about why you selected
this video. The video should align with the chapter you have selected.
Also, as you review the video, notice what the clinical mental health
counselor does during the session.
After reviewing the video, reflect on anything that surprised you in the
video.
Think about any insights you gained or conclusions you drew about client
issues and this population from the video and the chapter, noting
specifically if anything reinforced your desire to work with this client issue
or population.
Post the following:
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The title and
a brief description of the video you selected.
Walden
University
Explain why this client issue and/or population interests you.
COUN 6100: Introduction to Clinical Mental Health Counseling
Explain any insights you gained or conclusions you drew about working
with that client issue or population.
Finally, explain how this video and chapter may have confirmed or
challenged your interest in working with this client issue or population, and
explain why.
In addition to citing the video you selected, be sure to support your postings
and responses with specific citations to the Learning Resources (chapter
readings) and additional scholarly resources as needed to support your
perspectives.
Read your colleagues’ postings.
Respond to at least two different colleagues’ postings by commenting on
their choice of client issue or population, and/or explaining any new insight or
curiosity that resulted from reading their post.
Be sure to support your postings and responses with specific references to
the Learning Resources. Use proper APA format and citations.
Return to this Discussion in a few days to read the responses to your initial
posting. Note what you have learned and/or any insights that you have
gained as a result of your colleagues’ comments.
To access your rubric:
Week 7 Discussion Rubric
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COUN
6100: Introduction
to Clinical Mental Health Counseling
To participate
in this Discussion:
Week 7 Discussion
In Week 5, you began work on your Final Project by finding websites and
online tools to aid in the selection of an interview subject. This week, you will
put those sources to use by searching for and identifying your interview
subject.
For Part 1 of your Final Project, you will identify the mental health counselor
you selected as the interview subject for your Final Project. You will provide a
full description of the interview subject, and you will explain why you selected
this counselor to interview.
To Prepare:
Review the Final Project Overview in this week’s Learning Resources.
Identify the licensed mental health counselor you have selected to
interview.
Assignment (1 page):
Using the Final Project Interview Subject Template in this week’s Learning
Resources, write a one page summary and include:
Who you are interviewing.
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Describe his or her professional license, setting, population/specialization,
Walden
University
and any other relevant information.
COUN 6100: Introduction to Clinical Mental Health Counseling
Explain why you selected this counselor to interview.
Even though this assignment is only 1 page, you are expected to apply the
same APA format and style and scholarly writing requirements that you
have applied to other formal writing assignments in this course.
Support your Final Project Part 1 Assignment by citing all resources in APA
format and style, including those in the Learning Resources. Be sure to
include a reference page for your resources.
Submit your Final Project Part 1 Assignment.
To submit your completed Assignment for review and grading, do the
following:
Please save your Assignment using the naming convention “WK7Proj+last
name+first initial.(extension)” as the name.
Click the Week 7 Project Rubric to review the Grading Criteria for the
Assignment.
Click the Week 7 Project link. You will also be able to “View Rubric” for
grading criteria from thisarea.
Next, from the Attach File area, click on the Browse My Computer button.
Find the document you saved as “WK7Proj+last name+first initial.
(extension)” and click Open.
If applicable: From the Plagiarism Tools area, click the checkbox for I
agree to submit my paper(s) to the Global Reference Database.
Click on the Submit button to complete your submission.
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To access
your rubric:
COUN 6100: Introduction to Clinical Mental Health Counseling
Week 7 Project Rubric
To check your Assignment draft for authenticity:
Submit your Week 7 Final Project draft and review the originality report.
To submit your Assignment:
Week 7 Final Project
This week, you analyzed client issues to help you determine what area of
counseling you may wish to pursue. In addition, you identified the counseling
professional you will be interviewing for your Final Project.
Next week, you will continue developing your professional counseling
identity, and you will analyze multicultural issues in counseling.
To go to the next week:
Week 8
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9 months ago
Discussion – Week 7
Client Issues
Clinical mental health counselors, like doctors and lawyers, practice in specialty areas. These areas are
speci c to client issues or populations for which the counselor has had advanced clinical training and
experience. Often, counselors enter a training program with an idea of the client issues or populations for
which they have a passion. These specialty areas include, but are not limited to, drug and alcohol
treatment, eating disorders, trauma, crisis management, depression, and/or anxiety. You might not know
what area of counseling you’d like to practice, and that’s OK! Feel free to pick a topic that is most
interesting to you at this point in your training.
For this Discussion, you will explore various client issues and analyze a video concerning a client
population or issue that interests you. Your analysis, and the resulting dialogue with your colleagues, will
help you as you work to determine the client issue or population with which you would like to specialize.
To Prepare:
Review Section 3, “Client Issues and Advocacy,” from the Erford course text.
In addition to the assigned reading (Chapter 8), select one additional chapter from Section 3 to
review and incorporate into this discussion: Chapters 7, 9, 10, 11, or 12.
Search the Walden Library using the link provided in this week’s Learning Resources, and choose a
video that demonstrates a client population or client issue that interests you. Think about why you
selected this video. The video should align with the chapter you have selected.
Also, as you review the video, notice what the clinical mental health counselor does during the
session.
After reviewing the video, re ect on anything that surprised you in the video.
Think about any insights you gained or conclusions you drew about client issues and this population
from the video and the chapter, noting speci cally if anything reinforced your desire to work with this
client issue or population.
By Day 3
Post the following:
The title and a brief description of the video you selected.
Explain why this client issue and/or population interests you.
Explain any insights you gained or conclusions you drew about working with that client issue or
population.
Finally, explain how this video and chapter may have con rmed or challenged your interest in
working with this client issue or population, and explain why.
In addition to citing the video you selected, be sure to support your postings and responses with speci c
citations to the Learning Resources (chapter readings) and additional scholarly resources as needed to
support your perspectives.
Read your colleagues’ postings.
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By Day 6
Respond to at least two di erent colleagues’ postings by commenting on their choice of client issue or
population, and/or explaining any new insight or curiosity that resulted from reading their post.
Be sure to support your postings and responses with speci c references to the Learning Resources. Use proper
APA format and citations.
Return to this Discussion in a few days to read the responses to your initial posting. Note what you have
learned and/or any insights that you have gained as a result of your colleagues’ comments.
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3 days ago
Brooks Hanks
Week 7 Discussion Outline
Hello Everyone,
I look forward to hearing more about what you found interesting in the various videos you review. I
thought I would go ahead and create an outline for you all with all of the necessary information for this
week’s discussion post. Feel free to use it (or not) but it should help ensure that you cover all of the
various elements for this week’s discussion.
Title of the Video
Write a brief description of the video you selected for this discussion.
Interest Description
Explain why this client issue and/or population interests you.
Insights Gained
Explain any insights you gained or conclusions you drew about working with that client issue or
population.
Personal Response
Explain how this video and chapter may have con rmed or challenged your interest in working with this
client issue or population, and explain why.
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Brooks Hanks
1 day ago
Counseling Apps and Free Student Counseling Resources
Hey Everyone,
In my announcement on Monday, I mentioned that I would be attaching a list of counseling apps that
are available. This isn’t an exhaustive list, I’m sure there are many more out there that you will nd. I
wanted to just share a few that I have become aware of recently. Counseling APPS.docx
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Counselors as Clients
I recommend that all counseling students participate in counseling for their own personal and
professional growth (this is actually required in many clinical psychology programs). Even if you were a
client in the past, participating in this role as a counseling student causes you to view the experience
through a di erent lens and provides a whole new perspective. We all have areas we could improve
upon, so why not take advantage of services available to you as a Walden Student? I have attached
information on the Student Assistance Program, which is a valuable FREE resource. Exposure to
counseling, from the client’s perspective, opens your eyes to what it’s like to sit in the hot seat and can
provide more empathy, insight, and awareness than reading a dozen textbooks!
Student Assistance Program.pdf
I hope you have a great week and look forward to reading more about what you’ve learned this week.
Warmly,
Dr. Brooks
Mary McNamara
16 hours ago
RE: Week 7 Discussion
I chose the video Counseling Theories in Action: Multicultural Feminist Therapy. I have a specific
interest in Feminist and Multicultural therapy so I was intrigued by the title. This video
demonstrates six interventions for use specifically with multicultural clients, including a) culturally
sensitive engagement, b) language as an intervention, c) understand a client’s worldview, d)
consciousness raising, e) strengthbased empowerment, and f) the “loteria” which used to bring up
memories. The counselor, Olga Meija, defines culture in the context of her practice as race,
ethnicity, socioeconomic status, sexual orientation, gender, religion. She stresses that culture and
context really matter (Microtraining Associates, 2018). Erford (2018) further defines culture as
common values and behaviors shared by a group which serve to regulate and define how they
think and feel and how that comes out in behaviors. In the video, Olga is counseling a young
Hispanic woman names Jackie who was born in the United States to immigrant parents. His first
language was Spanish. Jackie came to counseling because she has what she described as a
problem with “my identity and my culture .” Jackie feels like she does not exactly fit in as an
American or as a Mexican. She feels ashamed that she feels this way. She is also ashamed that
she is seeking counseling, as that is not something her family would understand nor would they
approve (Microtraining Associates, 2018).
Interest Description
My specific interest in multiculturism is personal and academic. I am married to a person of color. I
have encountered racial bias and stereotyping because of my relationship. I am intrigued by the
unique cultural differences we share, including the family dynamics on both sides.
Insights Gained
We are an interracial couple—part of only 2% of the marriages in the United States that are
interracial (Erford, 2018, p. 357). The demographics are changing rapidly, and thus so is the need
for culturally sensitive awareness in counseling. Inequity and other social and economic injustices
such a as racism, discrimination, xenophobia, and oppression are causes for most of the
behavioral and emotional problems unique to these populations (Erford, 2018, p. 368). As more
underrepresented groups seek counseling, professional counselors must make the effort to
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understand they are culturally more concerned about the stigma of counseling. The goal should
be to make them feel like the counseling session is truly a safe space.
Personal Response
Watching this session affirmed my interest in this area of counseling. It reinforced the importance of
counselors to know themselves—to understand their own bias and to work at becoming more
sensitive and more aware of those populations they will serve but about which they may know very
little. Listening to Jackie share her story of visiting Mexico as a child to visit family and having them
tease her for not being Mexican and then share how she was made fun of in elementary school in
the United States for her accent was moving. To watch the counselor incorporate culturally
sensitive interventions was informative and encouraging to witness. She made the client feel better
immediately and thus she opened even more.
Microtraining Associates (Producer). (2018). Multicultural Feminist Therapy [Video file]. Retrieved
from Academic Video Online: Premium database.
Erford, B. T. (Ed.). (2018). Orientation to the counseling profession: Advocacy, ethics, and essential
professional foundations (3rd ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education.
Heather Markun-Heard
1 day ago
Main Discussion – Week 7- Heather MH
Working with gay and Lesbian People of Color 2
This video is an example of a counseling session with a male counselor and a female, Filipino,
lesbian client. The point of the video is to see how the counselor develops rapport with a patient
who identifies with a minority race as well as sexual orientation.
Interest Description
I’m personally interested in working with multicultural populations because these are very common
where I live and where I’d like to work. I find it intriguing that there are some counselors who
believe in the etic perspective while others use emic approaches to counseling (Nadal, n.d.). Etic
perspectives suggest using the same approaches with everyone, whereas emic approaches
suggest treating the client as an individual with cultural differences. I think it’s odd that there are
counselors who use an etic perspective because I believe that everyone should be treated a little
bit differently according to their individual cultural perspectives.
Insights Gained
The counselor in Nadal (n.d.) asked a lot about the client’s personal life story in order to learn
about how this person views themselves. T
Discussion
Draft
This is just a short one-page discussion.
I have paid extra due to required reading. Please let me know if I have offered a sufficient
amount?
Please take the time to read all information and write in a natural way (discussion based –
like I’m talking to you). APA format is required and I will also use Grammarly to check
and then have a second tutor to check your work.
I have also provided examples of what other people have done to give you and idea.
I need to have this done by Sunday 13 Jan 7 pm London time please.
Title of the Video
Write a brief description of the video you selected for this discussion.
Interest Description
Explain why this client issue and/or population interests you.
Insights Gained
Explain any insights you gained or conclusions you drew about working with that client issue
or population.
Personal Response
Explain how this video and chapter may have confirmed or challenged your interest in
working with this client issue or population, and explain why.
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Discussion: Client Issues
Clinical mental health counselors, like doctors and lawyers, practice in specialty areas. These
areas are specific to client issues or populations for which the counselor has had advanced
clinical training and experience. Often, counselors enter a training program with an idea of
the client issues or populations for which they have a passion. These specialty areas include,
but are not limited to, drug and alcohol treatment, eating disorders, trauma, crisis
management, depression, and/or anxiety. You might not know what area of counseling you’d
like to practice, and that’s OK! Feel free to pick a topic that is most interesting to you at this
point in your training.
For this Discussion, you will explore various client issues and analyze a video concerning a
client population or issue that interests you. Your analysis, and the resulting dialogue with
your colleagues, will help you as you work to determine the client issue or population with
which you would like to specialize.
To Prepare:
Review Section 3, “Client Issues and Advocacy,” from the Erford course text.
In addition to the assigned reading (Chapter 8), select one additional chapter from Section 3
to review and incorporate into this discussion: Chapters 7, 9, 10, 11, or 12.
Search the Walden Library and choose a video that demonstrates a client population or client
issue that interests you. Think about why you selected this video. The video should align with
the chapter you have selected.
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Also, as you review the video, notice what the clinical mental health counselor does during
the session.
After reviewing the video, reflect on anything that surprised you in the video.
Think about any insights you gained or conclusions you drew about client issues and this
population from the video and the chapter, noting specifically if anything reinforced your
desire to work with this client issue or population.
By Day 3
Post the following:
The title and a brief description of the video you selected.
Explain why this client issue and/or population interests you.
Explain any insights you gained or conclusions you drew about working with that client issue
or population.
Finally, explain how this video and chapter may have confirmed or challenged your interest
in working with this client issue or population, and explain why.
**In addition to citing the video you selected, be sure to support
your postings and responses with specific citations to the Learning Resources (chapter
readings) and additional scholarly resources as needed to support your perspectives.
I’d like to focus on Drug and Alcohol (addiction) Treatment Approaches
I have copied Chp 8 and attached as a zip file.
There are also other examples of this topic from Section 3 in other chapters.
Personally I was especially interested in the treatment/education/prevention of drugs/acholic
with youth. I liked the chapter that mentioned “wilderness counseling” (where they take
troubled youths out in nature to reconnect). Along with using traditional treatments.
One of the things that surprised me with the video is how it seemed (from my perspective)
that the counselor was drilling him w lots of questions. I’m not experienced to know if this is
done on purpose to help the client (the young boy in video) to see his areas of concern or if
the counselor becomes maybe a little too detached?
I could see how denial played a part in this as you could see the areas where he was putting
himself at risk and how is life was becoming unmanageable (in car while others under the
influence were driving and that was normal to him, doing orgies when he was too high to
realize at the time (something he wouldn’t have done sober) and hitting his girlfriend.
Additional example in Section 3 can be taken from Chapter 12, “Voices Frome the Field 12.2
, A Case of Mistaken Identity” page 388 to 389
Transcript of video (I will also try to upload it)
Volume 2 New Releases: Assessment Tools: Substance Use
Assessment Series, Volume 2, Episode 62, Substance Use
Assessment A-3
in Volume 2 New Releases: Assessment Tools: Substance Use Assessment Series, Volume 2, Episode
62 (Carlsbad, CA: Symptom Media, 2014), 7 mins
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ource=relateditems
Abstract / Summary
Upon questioning, Shane, a teenager, describes his casual relationship to several
substances including alcohol and marijuana. Shane also admits to trying other drugs
such as ecstasy. Despite using daily, he does not feel he is addicted and finds no
reason to stop his drug use. The absence of his parents and his living in an unstable
home reveal a lack of structure and support in his life.
Field of Interest
Counseling & Therapy
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2014 Symptom Media
Content Type
Counseling session
Duration
7 mins
Format
Video
Original Release Date
2014
Publisher
Symptom Media
Place Published / Released
Carlsbad, CA
Release Date
2014
Series Number
Volume 2, Episode 62
Subject
Counseling & Therapy; Psychology & Counseling; Health Sciences; Addictions;
Theoretical Approaches to Counseling; Substance abuse; Vícios; Dependencias;
Teoria do Aconselhamento; Teorías del Asesoramiento; Alcohol abuse; Drug abuse;
Intoxication; Substance abuse counseling
Series / Program
Volume 2 New Releases: Assessment Tools: Substance Use Assessment Series
Keywords and Translated Subjects
Vícios; Dependencias; Teoria do Aconselhamento; Teorías del Asesoramiento
[sil.]
00:15SymptomMedia Substance Use Assessment A-3
00:30OFF CAMERA What types of substances do you use?
00:35SHANE This is between us, right? Okay, well I don’t know, like weed, beer, I mean
that’s the usual but I’ve tried other stuff like Ecstasy.
00:55OFF CAMERA How many days per week or month do you use?
01:00SHANE Um, I don’t know, maybe like once like a month or something, two, twice a
month. It really depends.
01:15OFF CAMERA How much of the thing that youprefer the most do you average using
and how often and what is it?
01:25SHANE I don’t know, well, I smoke weed, like, every day after school. You know,
whenever. Itdoesn’t hurt anything.
01:35OFF CAMERA What is the lowest amount you use in a setting? And how often that
amount?
01:40SHANE The lowest? Probably, like, a bowl, like before I go to class, or something, you
know, just to chill me out.
01:50OFF CAMERA What is the highest amount you use in a setting and how often?
01:55SHANE (sighs) Endless. Sometimes at parties it doesn’t stop coming.
02:00OFF CAMERA Estimate how much money you spend per week or month buying the
marijuana.
02:10SHANE I don’t know, maybe 3, 400 dollars.
02:15OFF CAMERA How often do you become intoxicated, high, stoned, or altered?
02:20SHANE Every day.
OFF CAMERA How often do you have blackouts, not remembering?
02:25SHANE Maybe like once, twice a month.
02:30OFF CAMERA How often do you pass out, become unconscious?
02:35SHANE Hasn’t happened yet.
OFF CAMERA How often do you use the marijuana and drive, still under the influence?
02:40SHANE Every time I drive.
02:45OFF CAMERA How often do you ride in carsdriven by someone else who is
influenced?
02:50SHANE A Lot, um… I only drive with people that I smoke with so whenever
we’re driving we’re already high.
03:05OFF CAMERA Has anything bad happened to you while you were having blackouts or
passed out; like being robbed, raped, injured?
03:10SHANE Yeah, uh, I passed out in an alley, onetime, and I got my wallet taken and beat
up.
03:20OFF CAMERA Describe any aggression, neglect, or bad behaviors you
remember doing while using.
03:25SHANE I think I hit my girlfriend one time. I don’t really remember that well. It was
kind of a crazy night, but …
03:35OFF CAMERA Describe any aggression, neglect or bad behaviors other people
reported you did but you do not remember while using.
03:45SHANE Like I said, when I hit my girlfriend. I barely remember that. She broke up
with me because of that.
03:50OFF CAMERA Describe any sexual events you participated in, which you would not
haveparticipated in in had you not been using the substance, and what your feelings were like
later.
04:00SHANE This is between us? I’ve done a feworgies.
04:10OFF CAMERA Do you have any substance related legal charges?
04:15SHANE No.
OFF CAMERA How has the marijuana impacted your health, including sleep and appetite?
04:20SHANE It helps me sleep and eat. That’s all I know.
04:25OFF CAMERA How has it impacted your relationships?
04:30SHANE Pretty well. Most people I know smoke, so it’s …
04:35OFF CAMERA How has it impacted your school work, work and social life?
04:40SHANE It helps all those things.
04:45OFF CAMERA Do you, or did you, have relatives who used marijuana?
04:50SHANE Yeah.
04:55OFF CAMERA In childhood, did your role models avoid using substances or use
substances? And what did you learn from your role models?
05:05SHANE Probably used, uh, I don’t know. My mom left when I was young, so did my
dad, so, I don’t know, kind of grew up on my own.
05:15OFF CAMERA Describe any self harm or suicidalactions you took because of using
substances.
05:20SHANE There hasn’t been any.
05:25OFF CAMERA Describe accomplishments in life you would have made if you’d not
been using substances.
05:30SHANE I’m not sure.
05:35OFF CAMERA What have you done to try to limit or stop your substance use?
05:40SHANE I haven’t.
05:45OFF CAMERA What have you learned about medical and psychological causes of your
substance use? And what do you plan to do about that?
05:50SHANE Nothing.
05:55OFF CAMERA What do you want your family, friends, co-workers, and other people
to know about your substance use?
06:00SHANE I don’t really care.
06:05OFF CAMERA Who are people who would support you in limiting, or stopping,
substanceuse?
06:10SHANE Uh, maybe my teachers or I don’t know, I mean …
06:20OFF CAMERA Who are people who will try to keep you using substances? And what
would your solutions be?
06:30SHANE Probably my friends. And, uh, uh, I’m not sure.
06:35OFF CAMERA Describe any bad experience from substance use that would motivate
you to use medications or be in treatment or stop.
06:50SHANE There, uh, hasn’t been any times that have made me want to stop, so …
06:55OFF CAMERA What do you hope your substance use will be like one year from now?
07:00SHANE Probably the same.
07:05[sil.]
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Week 7: Counselor Roles and Client Issues
Walden University
COUN 6100: Introduction to Clinical Mental Health Counseling
A critical step toward becoming a counseling professional involves
determining the client population and client issues that you would like to
work with. Clinical mental health counseling involves programs and
assistance covering a variety of populations and issues, and there may be
more than one area or population that you have some interest in. You will
have the opportunity this week to review these various issues and
populations. This will provide you with additional information to help
determine the subject for your Final Project interview.
This week, you will develop a better understanding of potential issues that
clients will be dealing with, and how to recognize these issues so you are
better able to aid the client. In addition, you will identify the counselor you
will be interviewing for your Final Project.
Analyze client issues and challenges
Identify an interview subject
Justify your interview subject selection
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COUN
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Introduction
to Orientation
Clinical Mental
Health
Counseling
Erford,
B. T.
(Ed.). (2018).
to the
counseling
profession:
Advocacy, ethics, and essential professional foundations (3rd ed.).
Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education.
Chapter 8, “Mental Health and Rehabilitation Counseling” (pp. 249–
268)
Document: Final Project Overview (PDF)
Document: Final Project Interview Subject Template (Word Document)
Walden Library. (2018). Counseling and therapy in video [Video file
series]. Alexandria, VA: Alexander Street Press.
Note: You will access various media programs from the Walden Library
databases.
Clinical mental health counselors, like doctors and lawyers, practice in
specialty areas. These areas are specific to client issues or populations for
which the counselor has had advanced clinical training and experience.
Often, counselors enter a training program with an idea of the client issues or
populations for which they have a passion. These specialty areas include, but
are not limited to, drug and alcohol treatment, eating disorders, trauma, crisis
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management, depression, and/or anxiety. You might not know what area of
Walden University
counseling you’d like to practice, and that’s OK! Feel free to pick a topic that
COUN 6100: Introduction to Clinical Mental Health Counseling
is most interesting to you at this point in your training.
For this Discussion, you will explore various client issues and analyze a video
concerning a client population or issue that interests you. Your analysis, and
the resulting dialogue with your colleagues, will help you as you work to
determine the client issue or population with which you would like to
specialize.
To Prepare:
Review Section 3, “Client Issues and Advocacy,” from the Erford course
text.
In addition to the assigned reading (Chapter 8), select one additional
chapter from Section 3 to review and incorporate into this discussion:
Chapters 7, 9, 10, 11, or 12.
Search the Walden Library and choose a video that demonstrates a client
population or client issue that interests you. Think about why you selected
this video. The video should align with the chapter you have selected.
Also, as you review the video, notice what the clinical mental health
counselor does during the session.
After reviewing the video, reflect on anything that surprised you in the
video.
Think about any insights you gained or conclusions you drew about client
issues and this population from the video and the chapter, noting
specifically if anything reinforced your desire to work with this client issue
or population.
Post the following:
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The title and
a brief description of the video you selected.
Walden
University
Explain why this client issue and/or population interests you.
COUN 6100: Introduction to Clinical Mental Health Counseling
Explain any insights you gained or conclusions you drew about working
with that client issue or population.
Finally, explain how this video and chapter may have confirmed or
challenged your interest in working with this client issue or population, and
explain why.
In addition to citing the video you selected, be sure to support your postings
and responses with specific citations to the Learning Resources (chapter
readings) and additional scholarly resources as needed to support your
perspectives.
Read your colleagues’ postings.
Respond to at least two different colleagues’ postings by commenting on
their choice of client issue or population, and/or explaining any new insight or
curiosity that resulted from reading their post.
Be sure to support your postings and responses with specific references to
the Learning Resources. Use proper APA format and citations.
Return to this Discussion in a few days to read the responses to your initial
posting. Note what you have learned and/or any insights that you have
gained as a result of your colleagues’ comments.
To access your rubric:
Week 7 Discussion Rubric
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6100: Introduction
to Clinical Mental Health Counseling
To participate
in this Discussion:
Week 7 Discussion
In Week 5, you began work on your Final Project by finding websites and
online tools to aid in the selection of an interview subject. This week, you will
put those sources to use by searching for and identifying your interview
subject.
For Part 1 of your Final Project, you will identify the mental health counselor
you selected as the interview subject for your Final Project. You will provide a
full description of the interview subject, and you will explain why you selected
this counselor to interview.
To Prepare:
Review the Final Project Overview in this week’s Learning Resources.
Identify the licensed mental health counselor you have selected to
interview.
Assignment (1 page):
Using the Final Project Interview Subject Template in this week’s Learning
Resources, write a one page summary and include:
Who you are interviewing.
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Describe his or her professional license, setting, population/specialization,
Walden
University
and any other relevant information.
COUN 6100: Introduction to Clinical Mental Health Counseling
Explain why you selected this counselor to interview.
Even though this assignment is only 1 page, you are expected to apply the
same APA format and style and scholarly writing requirements that you
have applied to other formal writing assignments in this course.
Support your Final Project Part 1 Assignment by citing all resources in APA
format and style, including those in the Learning Resources. Be sure to
include a reference page for your resources.
Submit your Final Project Part 1 Assignment.
To submit your completed Assignment for review and grading, do the
following:
Please save your Assignment using the naming convention “WK7Proj+last
name+first initial.(extension)” as the name.
Click the Week 7 Project Rubric to review the Grading Criteria for the
Assignment.
Click the Week 7 Project link. You will also be able to “View Rubric” for
grading criteria from thisarea.
Next, from the Attach File area, click on the Browse My Computer button.
Find the document you saved as “WK7Proj+last name+first initial.
(extension)” and click Open.
If applicable: From the Plagiarism Tools area, click the checkbox for I
agree to submit my paper(s) to the Global Reference Database.
Click on the Submit button to complete your submission.
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To access
your rubric:
COUN 6100: Introduction to Clinical Mental Health Counseling
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To check your Assignment draft for authenticity:
Submit your Week 7 Final Project draft and review the originality report.
To submit your Assignment:
Week 7 Final Project
This week, you analyzed client issues to help you determine what area of
counseling you may wish to pursue. In addition, you identified the counseling
professional you will be interviewing for your Final Project.
Next week, you will continue developing your professional counseling
identity, and you will analyze multicultural issues in counseling.
To go to the next week:
Week 8
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Discussion – Week 7
Client Issues
Clinical mental health counselors, like doctors and lawyers, practice in specialty areas. These areas are
speci c to client issues or populations for which the counselor has had advanced clinical training and
experience. Often, counselors enter a training program with an idea of the client issues or populations for
which they have a passion. These specialty areas include, but are not limited to, drug and alcohol
treatment, eating disorders, trauma, crisis management, depression, and/or anxiety. You might not know
what area of counseling you’d like to practice, and that’s OK! Feel free to pick a topic that is most
interesting to you at this point in your training.
For this Discussion, you will explore various client issues and analyze a video concerning a client
population or issue that interests you. Your analysis, and the resulting dialogue with your colleagues, will
help you as you work to determine the client issue or population with which you would like to specialize.
To Prepare:
Review Section 3, “Client Issues and Advocacy,” from the Erford course text.
In addition to the assigned reading (Chapter 8), select one additional chapter from Section 3 to
review and incorporate into this discussion: Chapters 7, 9, 10, 11, or 12.
Search the Walden Library using the link provided in this week’s Learning Resources, and choose a
video that demonstrates a client population or client issue that interests you. Think about why you
selected this video. The video should align with the chapter you have selected.
Also, as you review the video, notice what the clinical mental health counselor does during the
session.
After reviewing the video, re ect on anything that surprised you in the video.
Think about any insights you gained or conclusions you drew about client issues and this population
from the video and the chapter, noting speci cally if anything reinforced your desire to work with this
client issue or population.
By Day 3
Post the following:
The title and a brief description of the video you selected.
Explain why this client issue and/or population interests you.
Explain any insights you gained or conclusions you drew about working with that client issue or
population.
Finally, explain how this video and chapter may have con rmed or challenged your interest in
working with this client issue or population, and explain why.
In addition to citing the video you selected, be sure to support your postings and responses with speci c
citations to the Learning Resources (chapter readings) and additional scholarly resources as needed to
support your perspectives.
Read your colleagues’ postings.
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Respond to at least two di erent colleagues’ postings by commenting on their choice of client issue or
population, and/or explaining any new insight or curiosity that resulted from reading their post.
Be sure to support your postings and responses with speci c references to the Learning Resources. Use proper
APA format and citations.
Return to this Discussion in a few days to read the responses to your initial posting. Note what you have
learned and/or any insights that you have gained as a result of your colleagues’ comments.
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Brooks Hanks
Week 7 Discussion Outline
Hello Everyone,
I look forward to hearing more about what you found interesting in the various videos you review. I
thought I would go ahead and create an outline for you all with all of the necessary information for this
week’s discussion post. Feel free to use it (or not) but it should help ensure that you cover all of the
various elements for this week’s discussion.
Title of the Video
Write a brief description of the video you selected for this discussion.
Interest Description
Explain why this client issue and/or population interests you.
Insights Gained
Explain any insights you gained or conclusions you drew about working with that client issue or
population.
Personal Response
Explain how this video and chapter may have con rmed or challenged your interest in working with this
client issue or population, and explain why.
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Brooks Hanks
1 day ago
Counseling Apps and Free Student Counseling Resources
Hey Everyone,
In my announcement on Monday, I mentioned that I would be attaching a list of counseling apps that
are available. This isn’t an exhaustive list, I’m sure there are many more out there that you will nd. I
wanted to just share a few that I have become aware of recently. Counseling APPS.docx
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Counselors as Clients
I recommend that all counseling students participate in counseling for their own personal and
professional growth (this is actually required in many clinical psychology programs). Even if you were a
client in the past, participating in this role as a counseling student causes you to view the experience
through a di erent lens and provides a whole new perspective. We all have areas we could improve
upon, so why not take advantage of services available to you as a Walden Student? I have attached
information on the Student Assistance Program, which is a valuable FREE resource. Exposure to
counseling, from the client’s perspective, opens your eyes to what it’s like to sit in the hot seat and can
provide more empathy, insight, and awareness than reading a dozen textbooks!
Student Assistance Program.pdf
I hope you have a great week and look forward to reading more about what you’ve learned this week.
Warmly,
Dr. Brooks
Mary McNamara
16 hours ago
RE: Week 7 Discussion
I chose the video Counseling Theories in Action: Multicultural Feminist Therapy. I have a specific
interest in Feminist and Multicultural therapy so I was intrigued by the title. This video
demonstrates six interventions for use specifically with multicultural clients, including a) culturally
sensitive engagement, b) language as an intervention, c) understand a client’s worldview, d)
consciousness raising, e) strengthbased empowerment, and f) the “loteria” which used to bring up
memories. The counselor, Olga Meija, defines culture in the context of her practice as race,
ethnicity, socioeconomic status, sexual orientation, gender, religion. She stresses that culture and
context really matter (Microtraining Associates, 2018). Erford (2018) further defines culture as
common values and behaviors shared by a group which serve to regulate and define how they
think and feel and how that comes out in behaviors. In the video, Olga is counseling a young
Hispanic woman names Jackie who was born in the United States to immigrant parents. His first
language was Spanish. Jackie came to counseling because she has what she described as a
problem with “my identity and my culture .” Jackie feels like she does not exactly fit in as an
American or as a Mexican. She feels ashamed that she feels this way. She is also ashamed that
she is seeking counseling, as that is not something her family would understand nor would they
approve (Microtraining Associates, 2018).
Interest Description
My specific interest in multiculturism is personal and academic. I am married to a person of color. I
have encountered racial bias and stereotyping because of my relationship. I am intrigued by the
unique cultural differences we share, including the family dynamics on both sides.
Insights Gained
We are an interracial couple—part of only 2% of the marriages in the United States that are
interracial (Erford, 2018, p. 357). The demographics are changing rapidly, and thus so is the need
for culturally sensitive awareness in counseling. Inequity and other social and economic injustices
such a as racism, discrimination, xenophobia, and oppression are causes for most of the
behavioral and emotional problems unique to these populations (Erford, 2018, p. 368). As more
underrepresented groups seek counseling, professional counselors must make the effort to
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understand they are culturally more concerned about the stigma of counseling. The goal should
be to make them feel like the counseling session is truly a safe space.
Personal Response
Watching this session affirmed my interest in this area of counseling. It reinforced the importance of
counselors to know themselves—to understand their own bias and to work at becoming more
sensitive and more aware of those populations they will serve but about which they may know very
little. Listening to Jackie share her story of visiting Mexico as a child to visit family and having them
tease her for not being Mexican and then share how she was made fun of in elementary school in
the United States for her accent was moving. To watch the counselor incorporate culturally
sensitive interventions was informative and encouraging to witness. She made the client feel better
immediately and thus she opened even more.
Microtraining Associates (Producer). (2018). Multicultural Feminist Therapy [Video file]. Retrieved
from Academic Video Online: Premium database.
Erford, B. T. (Ed.). (2018). Orientation to the counseling profession: Advocacy, ethics, and essential
professional foundations (3rd ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education.
Heather Markun-Heard
1 day ago
Main Discussion – Week 7- Heather MH
Working with gay and Lesbian People of Color 2
This video is an example of a counseling session with a male counselor and a female, Filipino,
lesbian client. The point of the video is to see how the counselor develops rapport with a patient
who identifies with a minority race as well as sexual orientation.
Interest Description
I’m personally interested in working with multicultural populations because these are very common
where I live and where I’d like to work. I find it intriguing that there are some counselors who
believe in the etic perspective while others use emic approaches to counseling (Nadal, n.d.). Etic
perspectives suggest using the same approaches with everyone, whereas emic approaches
suggest treating the client as an individual with cultural differences. I think it’s odd that there are
counselors who use an etic perspective because I believe that everyone should be treated a little
bit differently according to their individual cultural perspectives.
Insights Gained
The counselor in Nadal (n.d.) asked a lot about the client’s personal life story in order to learn
about how this person views themselves. T
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