Mental Health Assignment: Journal Entry

Use the Multicultural Awareness Journal Template to create your journal entry. In your journal entry, include the following:

Summaries and reactions to the self-assessment results and reflection process
- Summarize the results of your Multicultural Self-Assessment.
- Identify which Harvard Implicit Bias self-assessments you took and summarize the results
- Explain how your results might make sense in light of the cultural influences in your life and/or your life experiences.

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Reflections on being “other
- Based on the media for this week, briefly tell the story of the first time you realized you were “other.”
- Discuss your reactions to your realization of being “other.”
- Explain how your developmental stage impacted your experience of “otherness.”
Implications for personal development and professional practice
- Describe perceived gaps in cultural competency and actions you plan to take as a result of the self-assessment and reflection process.
- Explain the importance of multicultural awareness and cultural competency to the practice of clinical mental health counseling.
Resouece
Erford, B. T. (Ed.). (2018). Orientation to the counseling profession: Advocacy, ethics, and essential professional foundations (3rd ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education.
- Chapter 10, “Human Development Throughout the Life Span” (pp. 311–336)
- Chapter 11, “Multicultural Counseling” (pp. 337–372)
Petrone, M. C. (2004). Multicultural self-assessment. In M. D. Cox & L. Richlin (Eds.), Building faculty learning communities (pp. 122–123). San Francisco, CA: John Wiley & Sons.

While this journal is reflective in nature, you should use the template provided in order to ensure appropriate APA structure and formatting. You are expected to support your work with reference to additional Learning Resources and to use appropriate APA format for in-text citations. It is highly recommended that you specifically cite the Petrone assessment in-text, since it will be used in the preparation of your paper.

Journal: Multicultural Awareness

Introduce the topic of this paper here in one brief paragraph (3 or 4 sentences).

Multicultural Self-Assessment

After taking the Multicultural Self-Assessment, discuss your results under this heading. Discuss your reactions to the assessment: What surprised you? What did you learn? And so on…

First Time I Realized I Was “Other”

Here you will explain the time you first realized that you were different from others.

Influence of Developmental Stage on Experience of “Otherness”

How was your experience of “otherness” influenced by your developmental stage at the time you experienced it?

Action Plan as a Result of the Self-Assessment

After considering the self-assessment and reviewing the text, explain how you plan to work on this important topic in your own life.

Importance of Multicultural Awareness and Cultural Competency

Under this heading, explain the importance of multicultural awareness and cultural competency to you as a counselor-in-training. Be sure to cite scholarly references.

References

Erford, B. T. (2018). Human development throughout the lifespan. In B. T. Erford (Ed.), Orientation to the counseling profession: Advocacy, ethics, and essential professional foundations (pp. 311–336). Pearson Education.

Gray, G. M. (2018). Multicultural counseling. In B. T. Erford (Ed.), Orientation to the counseling profession: Advocacy, ethics, and essential professional foundations (pp. 337–372). Pearson Education.

Laureate Education (Producer). (2010). Cultural competence: The first time I knew I was other [Video file]. Baltimore, MD: Author. Retrieved from http://mym.cdn.laureate-media.com/2dett4d/Walden/COUN/6100/04/mm/coun6100_carousel.html

Petrone, M. C. (2004). Multicultural self-assessment. In M. D. Cox & L. Richlin (Eds.), Building faculty learning communities (pp. 122–123). John Wiley & Sons.