For this assignment, choose one of the five scenarios that may be applied to your counseling specialization. Using the Diversity Issues in Career Counseling Template (linked in Resources), address the following elements in your assignment:
Discuss an issue or challenge for a chosen client or student in developing their career plan.
Describe specific characteristics pertaining to culture and diversity that are associated with the fictitious person from your chosen scenario and explore considerations that may factor into the presenting career or job-related concern.
Analyze how societal norms such as gender, age, culture, socioeconomic status or other characteristics may have influenced your client’s career development. Select at least three characteristics or diversity issues.
Explain how these factors, combined with the presenting career counseling issue, impact the person’s mental well-being, life roles, and relationships with others.
Analyze the interrelationships among work, mental well-being, social interactions, and other life roles and factors.
Explain how these factors interrelate in defining or clarifying career goals.
Assess how biases and assumptions can impact the career counseling process both from your perspective as the counselor and from the perspective of the client or student. Propose strategies to decrease biases and assumptions.
Self-assess biases and assumptions and describe how to minimize them when working with diverse populations.
Assess your own biases and describe how you will work to decrease these biases when working with diverse populations.
Describe strategies you can use to decrease your biases and assumptions.
Review the Diversity Issues in Career Counseling Scoring Guide to understand the grading criteria for this assignment.
Please Use Margaret is a 33-year-old African American woman with two children, aged 8 and 14. She is recently divorced and does not have a job. She once worked as a secretary for a real estate firm, but left that job after her second child was born. She does not have a degree but did complete two years at a community college.
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