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8-9 pages. Include additional title and reference page.

8 references from 2023.

APA format. Include correct citations

1. How would you go about working with a Native American woman who appears to be experiencing physical and/or sexual abuse, but is reluctant to discuss her experiences with you? What might be pertinent cultural considerations in your work with this client?

2. During a family session with an Asian American family, you note that the children, who were born in this country, highly value individuality and independence, while the parents expect obedience and sacrifice for the family. How would you address this situation?

3. Describe the traditional Latinx family structure and the associated cultural values. What implications do they have for client resilience, client stress, and for culturally competent counseling practice? How can these strengths be capitalized on and incorporated into counseling? What can counselors do to reduce the likelihood that these values will not become a source of misunderstanding/misinterpretation in counseling?

4. Discuss some of the acculturation-related issues experienced by Arab Americans and Muslim Americans. Include prevailing US stereotypes about members of each group. Discuss each group separately.

5. Provide examples of potential microaggressions that can occur when counseling a Jewish American? What can counselors do to minimize the likelihood that such microaggressions will take place?

6. You are a counselor who has been assigned the following case:

An unmarried lesbian couple would like to adopt a child from the foster care system. However, one member of the couple, your clienta 35-year-old lawyer from a prestigious law firmis not out to her family or colleagues. Her partner desperately wants a child but your client fears that having a child will out her sexual orientation to her parents and colleagues.

How would you proceed in counseling this client? What other information do you need? What would be some of the challenges you might face?

2 -pages per vignette.

10 pages total. Does not include a title and reference page.

10 references from 2022. Citations must be accurate and must match reference.

APA format.

For each of the four vignettes presented below:

1. What are the ethical issues in the case? Identify the issue in the ethics code.

2. Did the professional act in a manner consistent with current standards and principles? If not, what other courses of action would be more ethical? Support your decision by identifying the standards and principles relevant to this case.

3. Are there any indications of bias, stereotyping or marginalization present?

4. If relevant did the professional advocate for the client?

5. How can colleagues and supervisors help the professional to act ethically in this situation? Please be specific.

Vignette 1
Tasha is a college counselor who is well known on campus for her skill and compassion in helping students cope with relationship problems. Currently, Andy is one of her clients. He came to counseling because he is distraught that his girlfriend, Catherine, ended their relationship. Andy is making slow progress, but still hopes that he will be able to rekindle the relationship with Catherine at some point. Larah is another of Tashas clients. One day Larah enters counseling feeling happier than she has in months. She reports that she has met a new lover, Catherine, with whom she is very happy. After hearing Larah describe Catherine, she is fairly certain that it is the same woman with whom Andy was involved. Tasha decides to continue counseling both Andy and Larah, determined to maintain the confidentiality of each persons disclosures.

Vignette 2
Dan, licensed psychologist, has a 77-year-old African American client named Rebecca who has come to counseling at the insistence of her children. Rebecca wants to maintain her own home, but her children and neighbors are convinced that she can no longer care for it properly. Rebecca begins the interview by stating that if anyone forces her to move, she will commit suicide because she has nothing else to live for. In the course of the session Rebecca admits some problems with independent living, and seems to be distractible and unfocused in her comments. However, she does not seem disoriented or unable to meet her own needs. After several sessions, Dan concludes that Rebecca would probably be better off not having responsibility for a large home on her own. Dan also concludes that while Rebeccas mental capacities are not as strong as they once were, this woman is competent and in touch with reality. Whatever suicide risk that existed before has diminished. When the family calls Dan to ask about Rebeccas progress in counseling he decides to reveal this information to them, even though he has not received prior permission from Rebecca to do so.

Vignette 3
Jacob and Edith are co-leaders of a marriage encounter group. They are both skilled family therapists and participants evaluations of their groups are generally very positive. Their leadership style is dominating and confrontive. When Chu and Jack, Hopi Indians, enroll in their group they feel uncomfortable with the leadership style of Jacob and Edith. It is not consistent with their personalities or the style of interpersonal communication patterns most common in their tribe and family. When Chu and Jack express discomfort to the leaders, they remark that they seem to be using their culture and personality as a defense against exploring their issues. Soon thereafter Chau and Jack drop out of the group and refuse further contact.

Vignette 4
Eden is a counselor in a community mental health agency that serves an urban population. Eden conducts an intake session with a client named Bridget, a 20-year-old Korean American woman he had seen in family therapy 3 years ago. Bridget is currently an art student and sculptor. As a student, she lives on grants and student loans and wants to pay for counseling services with the art that she produces. She tells Eden that she trusts him, and wants to see him individually, as he helped her family through some painful times in the past. Bridget suggests that she could get the art appraised so that its value would be independently determined. When Eden offers a sliding-scale fee arrangement as a better option Bridget says that she comes from a proud family that has never accepted charity and she would not feel comfortable with that arrangement. Her actual cash income is so low that Bridget would qualify for free services. Eden is considering this arrangement as long as the art is independently appraised.