Addiction Professional And Client Characteristics

 

Readings

Use your textbook, Sue and Sue’s Counseling the Culturally Diverse: Theory and Practice, to complete the following:

• Read Chapter 3, “Multicultural Counseling Competence for Counselors and Therapists of Marginalized Groups,” pages 71–101.
• Read Chapter 5, “The Impact of Systemic Oppression: Counselor Credibility and Client Worldviews,” pages 145–175.
• Read Chapter 7, “Barriers to Multicultural Counseling and Therapy: Individual and Family Perspectives,” pages 215–246.
• Read Chapter 10, “Non-Western Indigenous Methods of Healing: Implications for Multicultural Counseling and Therapy,” pages 321–347.
• Read Chapter 15, “Counseling American Indians/Native Americans and Alaska Natives,” pages 479–495.

Use the Internet to explore the current demographics in your own state. You will need this information to complete the second discussion for this unit.

Interview with True Thao: Being a Minority Mental Health Counselor

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Native American Ways of Knowing

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Multimedia

• Interview with True Thao: Being a Minority Mental Health Counselor. Click Launch Presentation to watch an interview with True Thao, a mental health counselor based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. True shares his insights and experiences as a Hmong counselor and counseling clients from both the dominant and minority cultures.
• Native American Ways of Knowing. Click Launch Presentation to hear Dr. Kim Spoor share her way of knowing, from the Anishinaabe perspective.

Optional Readings

The literature is rich with resources to help addiction professionals and therapists delve more deeply into the topics being covered in this course and to pursue their own special interests. In each unit you will find a reference list; look to these for information and use as you wish in your professional development. Please note that it is acceptable to draw from these resources for your discussions and assignments; however, you should not rely exclusively on these resources in completing assignments that require library research.

• Read Dana’s 2000 article, “The Cultural Self as Locus for Assessment and Intervention With American Indian/Alaska Natives,” from Journal of Multicultural Counseling & Development, volume 28, issue 2, pages 66–82.
• Read Echo-Hawk’s 2011 article, “Indigenous Communities and Evidence Building,” in Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, volume 43, issue 4, pages 269–275.
• Read Garrett, Garrett, Torres-Rivera, and Roberts-Wilbur’s 2005 article, “Laughing It Up: Native American Humor as Spiritual Tradition,” in Journal of Multicultural Counseling and Development, volume 33, issue 4, pages 194–204.
• Read Gone and Calf Looking’s 2011 article, “American Indian Culture as Substance Abuse Treatment: Pursuing Evidence for a Local Intervention,” in Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, volume 43, issue 4, pages 291–296.
• Read Lane and Simmons’s 2011 article, “American Indian Youth Substance Abuse: Community-Driven Interventions,” in Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine, volume 78, issue 3, pages 362–372.
• Read Larios, Wright, Jernstrom, Lebron, and Sorensen’s 2011 article, “Evidence-Based Practices, Attitudes, and Beliefs in Substance Abuse Treatment Programs Serving American Indians and Alaska Natives: A Qualitative Study,” in Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, volume 43, issue 4, pages 355–359.
• Read Moghaddam and Momper’s 2011 article, “Integrating Spiritual and Western Treatment Modalities in a Native American Substance User Center: Provider Perspectives,” in Substance Use & Misuse, volume 46, issue 11, pages 1431–1437.
• Read from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.
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Addiction Professional and Client Characteristics

Referring to the unit readings and Tables 7.1 and 7.2, compare the generic characteristics of counseling with respect to culture, class, and language, with Native American characteristics in terms of culture, class, and language. Which characteristics most closely reflect your culture, class, and language?

Refer to Chapter 15 and at least one of the recommended readings and consider the types of mental health concerns you may be likely to encounter in counseling a Native American client, couple, family, or group (for example, the impact of educational disparities on career development). Address the following:

• How would your approach reflect your understanding of your own characteristics and those of your client or clients?
• How would the impact of historical and current oppression be important to your work?
• Discuss the implications of the client’s characteristics and concerns on your counseling and advocacy strategies in terms of problem assessment, goal setting, and interventions that take into account individual, couple, family, and tribal considerations.

Note: This is a graded discussion question. Your instructor will grade your discussion using the Scoring Guide accessed in the Resources and your grade will appear in the courseroom gradebook. You are still responsible for posting two substantial peer responses to other learners’ discussions.

ADDITIONAL INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE CLASS

Discussion Questions (DQ)

• Initial responses to the DQ should address all components of the questions asked, include a minimum of one scholarly source, and be at least 250 words.
• Successful responses are substantive (i.e., add something new to the discussion, engage others in the discussion, well-developed idea) and include at least one scholarly source.
• One or two sentence responses, simple statements of agreement or “good post,” and responses that are off-topic will not count as substantive. Substantive responses should be at least 150 words.
• I encourage you to incorporate the readings from the week (as applicable) into your responses.

Weekly Participation

• Your initial responses to the mandatory DQ do not count toward participation and are graded separately.
• In addition to the DQ responses, you must post at least one reply to peers (or me) on three separate days, for a total of three replies.
• Participation posts do not require a scholarly source/citation (unless you cite someone else’s work).
• Part of your weekly participation includes viewing the weekly announcement and attesting to watching it in the comments. These announcements are made to ensure you understand everything that is due during the week.

APA Format and Writing Quality

• Familiarize yourself with APA format and practice using it correctly. It is used for most writing assignments for your degree. Visit the Writing Center in the Student Success Center, under the Resources tab in LoudCloud for APA paper templates, citation examples, tips, etc. Points will be deducted for poor use of APA format or absence of APA format (if required).
• Cite all sources of information! When in doubt, cite the source. Paraphrasing also requires a citation.
• I highly recommend using the APA Publication Manual, 6th edition.

Use of Direct Quotes

• I discourage overutilization of direct quotes in DQs and assignments at the Masters’ level and deduct points accordingly.
• As Masters’ level students, it is important that you be able to critically analyze and interpret information from journal articles and other resources. Simply restating someone else’s words does not demonstrate an understanding of the content or critical analysis of the content.
• It is best to paraphrase content and cite your source.

 

LopesWrite Policy

• For assignments that need to be submitted to LopesWrite, please be sure you have received your report and Similarity Index (SI) percentage BEFORE you do a “final submit” to me.
• Once you have received your report, please review it. This report will show you grammatical, punctuation, and spelling errors that can easily be fixed. Take the extra few minutes to review instead of getting counted off for these mistakes.
• Review your similarities. Did you forget to cite something? Did you not paraphrase well enough? Is your paper made up of someone else’s thoughts more than your own?
• Visit the Writing Center in the Student Success Center, under the Resources tab in LoudCloud for tips on improving your paper and SI score.

Late Policy

• The university’s policy on late assignments is 10% penalty PER DAY LATE. This also applies to late DQ replies.
• Please communicate with me if you anticipate having to submit an assignment late. I am happy to be flexible, with advance notice. We may be able to work out an extension based on extenuating circumstances.
• If you do not communicate with me before submitting an assignment late, the GCU late policy will be in effect.
• I do not accept assignments that are two or more weeks late unless we have worked out an extension.
• As per policy, no assignments are accepted after the last day of class. Any assignment submitted after midnight on the last day of class will not be accepted for grading.

Communication

• Communication is so very important. There are multiple ways to communicate with me: 
  • Questions to Instructor Forum: This is a great place to ask course content or assignment questions. If you have a question, there is a good chance one of your peers does as well. This is a public forum for the class.
  • Individual Forum: This is a private forum to ask me questions or send me messages. This will be checked at least once every 24 hours.

Addiction Professional And Client Characteristics

Addiction Professional And Client Characteristics