cultural heritage, writing homework help

  • Briefly describe your and your family’s (either birth or
    adopted) cultural heritage (for example, your paternal grandparents
    immigrated to the United States from Italy, and your maternal
    grandparents emigrated from Ireland).
  • Does your family have one or more religious or spiritual traditions?
  • What aspects of your cultural heritage have resulted in privileges or discrimination and oppression for you and your family?
  • Analyze
    how your cultural heritage may potentially impact effective counseling
    practices. How might it contribute to your ideas about the purpose of
    counseling, role of the counselor, and approaches to therapy that you
    will be using in your work with clients from diverse backgrounds?
  • Consider potential barriers or opportunities your worldview could present in counseling a client of a different:
    • Ethnicity or race.
    • Gender.
    • Socioeconomic status.

Strategies to Overcome Your Cultural Competence Limitations

  • Identify
    and describe at least one strategy to address each of the aspects of
    multicultural competence (awareness, knowledge, skill) that would be
    important to apply in ensuring that you eliminate barriers to competent
    counseling practices that may come from your own cultural
    characteristics, attitudes, and beliefs