Instructions
Using the Personal Cultural Analysis [DOCX] template, complete the following to conduct an analysis that explores the dimensions of your cultural heritage and experiences with discrimination and biases.
Address the following in your cultural analysis:
- Your Cultural Heritage.
- Identify at least three dimensions of identity (for example, age, gender, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion or spiritual practice, class, ability and disability, and others).
- Explain personal significance of each dimension.
- Your Response to Discrimination.
- Describe your early recollections of discrimination, microaggressions, or prejudice.
- Describe the personal emotional impact and implications on counseling practices.
- Your Code of Ethics.
- Explain how three ways to build cultural competence align with the code of ethics specific to your future counseling profession.
- Cite the relevant ethical standards.
- Your Heritage and Your Practice.
- Identify two opportunities and challenges presented by your cultural heritage or spiritual orientation relevant to applying multicultural counseling with diverse populations.
- Explain their relevance to counseling diverse populations.
- Your Professional Presentation.
- As you write your cultural analysis, please communicate in a manner related to your cultural identity and experiences using professionally appropriate language and writing mechanics acceptable for professional counseling settings.
- Please use relevant sources to support assertions, correctly formatting citations and references using APA style.
- This assignment requires a minimum of four (4) scholarly resources from peer-reviewed journals published within the past five years.