01 Aug Identify sex, gender, sexuality and other pertinent cultural similarities and differences between you and your client. Explain how your cultural and clinical worldviews influence
APA format, 750 words, about YOUR experience AS A COUNSELOR with Your Client. Use research/references to support your responses
Counselor Description (You): African American, Female, Mid 30
Client: (Adolescent Sibling), Specifier: Depression,
Client background: You are in a family of siblings—1 emerging adult sibling guardian, 1 adolescent, and 1 middle childhood aged child. Your father has been sentenced to life in prison for the homicide of your mother from domestic violence. It has been 2 years since your mother’s death. You are all receiving case management services from DCF.
*Attached intake information for client
- 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. (amended from SAMHSA, 2014, p. 93)
PRE-INTAKE INTERVIEW QUESTIONS (for the role of the Client):
Client Name: Jamilah St Juste Date: July 22, 2022. Age: 15
In your own words, why are you seeking counseling at this time? My case manager recommended me for services because of my father’s conviction.
Have you had counseling in the past? Yes
What for? For my depression
Was it a good experience? Yes
Why or why not? It was good because I had someone to talk without getting in trouble for it.
Please list any medications you are currently taking: Escitalopram (Lexapro)
Have you ever gone to the hospital for mental health reasons? No
Have you ever gone to the hospital for substance abuse reasons: No
In your own words, what do you hope to gain from being in counseling? I want to feel good about myself and my life. So much has happened and I want to get through it.
What do you see as your strengths? (For couples, please also identify relationship strengths).
I think I’m strong and resilient.
If you or any of your family has a history of any of the following, please indicate who:
Health problems: Mom Mental health problems: Me, Dad, sibilings
Substance abuse problems: Dad History of abuse (physical, emotional, or sexual: Me and Siblings, Mom
Legal problems: Dad Economic problems: dad, mom, older brother Occupational problems: Dad Housing problems: me and sibilings
Thank you for taking the time to complete this form. We can talk about your reactions and any concerns in our session. (Semmler, n.d., amended by H. Hill)
