Diverse Contexts And Intercultural Communication

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Your employer has asked to prepare a presentation on intercultural communication and the importance of considering diversity in communication. You must prepare a PowerPoint presentation, creating one slide for each of the topics below. Be sure to include your speaker notes in the Notes section below each slide. Include a minimum of two relevant citations throughout your presentation.

Slide 1: Title Slide

Slide 2: Explain how diverse contexts impact and intercultural communication.

Slide 3: Provide three reasons to consider intercultural communication.

Slide 4: Identify two examples of intercultural communication that should be considered.

Slide 5: Identify a diverse context issue that can be addressed using intercultural communication strategies.

Slide 6: Provide two intercultural guidelines for how to address the issues identified in Slide 5, while still demonstrating respect for those differences.

Slide 7: References

Writing Requirements and Assignment Guidelines

Your Assignment should be at least five slides, not including the Title and Reference slides, and should include the following elements:

  • Title slide
  • Body
  • Reference slide: Include at least two sources listed in APA format
  • Use Arial or Times New Roman 24-point font
  • Use APA Formatting and Citation style
    • assignment must be written in Standard English and demonstrate superior organization, including a highly developed viewpoint and purpose. Your notes below each slide in the body of your presentation should be written in complete sentences and paragraphs, supporting the content on each slide. Presentations are visual; therefore, use clear, concise bullet points and avoid crowded slides. Additionally, images and diagrams are wonderful presentation tools, but be sure to include all required citations.

Counselor Ethical Boundaries And Practices Assignment Guidelines

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Directions: Follow the directions below to write a paper of 1,500-1,750 words on counselor ethical boundaries and practices.

Provide a thoughtful response to each of the following four sections, including specific, concrete examples to illustrate your ideas. Use the section headings provided below to separate each section of your paper. 

Your final deliverable should be one cohesive paper with headings addressing all four sections along with an introduction and conclusion.

Section 1: Boundary Issues and Dual Relationships

1. How would you determine if a boundary-crossing or dual relationship is ethical and appropriate? What criteria would you consider when making your decision?

2. Present examples of how you would apply this criteria to at least four counseling situations in which you believe the dual relationship issues are complex and ambiguous. One of your examples should address the issues of physical attraction between clients and counselors.

Section 2: Professional Collaboration in Counseling: Working with a Multidisciplinary Team

1. How would you work collaboratively within your scope of practice with other mental health professionals to ensure quality client care?

2. Who would you expect to work with as part of a multidisciplinary team and what would the role of each person on the team be, including yourself?  Refer to Section D (Relationships With Other Professionals) of the ACA Code of Ethics and any other relevant sources.

Section 3: Relationships with Supervisors and Colleagues

1. According to the ACA Code of Ethics, what is the role of clinical supervisors and what are their primary responsibilities? Refer to Section F (Supervision, Training, and Teaching) of the ACA Code of Ethics and any other relevant sources.

2. Describe the ethical issues involved in the supervisor-counselor relationship. How is this relationship similar to the counselor-client relationship? How is it different?

3. Occasionally, counselors will observe unethical behavior in their colleagues. Describe an unethical behavior that one might see and identify an ethical decision making model that would address the unethical behavior.

Section 4: Development of Your Thinking about Ethics

1.  Clearly describe what you consider to be the most important developments in your thinking about ethical practice that have occurred during this course. This may include areas in which you have clarified your views and beliefs, modified your thinking on a given issue, gained new insights, or acquired a new perspective. It may include issues whose complexity you now appreciate more fully or difficult issues that you now understand you must grapple with as a counselor. Be sure that you include specific examples to illustrate general statements. This is the only section in which your personal experience has been required. Therefore, you are allowed to use first person in this section only.

*****Please include and introduction and conclusion********

 

For Section I of this assignment, be sure to include 4 unambiguous examples of ambiguous dual relationships and apply a decision making model to support your reasoning.

In addition, include discussion of if and how your decision-making would change after the client has completed treatment (former clients). Please don’t use the word “I” or ‘this author’ for Parts I or II. Rather, use scholarly references and your codes of ethics! Only for the final section can you write in first person. 

Follow the rubric and the directions in the assignment guidelines. Minimum word count is 1,500 words (body of assignment only – don’t include references or title page in count).

There are many pieces and parts to this assignment and I will be looking for all of them. I will not guess or infer which part you are attempting to answer, rather be explicit! Use APA headings!! See how to format APA Headings according to each heading Level: (doesn’t format correctly here in LC – sorry!)

Centered, Boldface, Uppercase and Lowercase Headings

Left-aligned, Boldface, Uppercase and Lowercase Heading 

Indented, boldface, lowercase heading with a period. Begin body of text after the period.

https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/16/

Ie:

Section 1: Boundary Issues and Dual Relationships

Determining Appropriate Boundaries

Examples

Section 2: Professional Collaboration in Counseling

Collaboration

Multidisciplinary Teams

Section 3: Relationships with Supervisors and Colleagues

You are required to use 6 scholarly sources for this paper. I will be strict in enforcing this requirement. I expect students will incorporate the text, codes of ethics and other scholarly resources. Improperly formatted papers will be graded as below satisfactory on the rubric, including citations and references. At this stage of the course, students are expected to understand APA. Please don’t use the word “I” or ‘this author’ for Sections 1,2, or 3. Only for the final section can you write in first person.

Please give appropriate credit to the author of paraphrased and quoted material… this is an ethical issue and expectation at this point! Keep an eye on required word count (1500 – 1750).

What problem will earning your degree solve?

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In Chapter 8 of the webtext, you’ll read Demystifying Decision-Making, an article by Maud Purcell (2016) that offers four steps in the decision making process:

Clearly define the problem
Brainstorm possible choices
List the pros and cons of each choice
Engage your feelings as well as your intellect
In this discussion, we want you to engage in the decision making process as it relates to earning your degree. In your post, focus on step 1 (clearly defining the problem) and step 2 (brainstorm possible choices) of the decision making process.

Answer these questions in your discussion post:

What problem will earning your degree solve?
Brainstorm three things that you can do today to start to prepare yourself for your future goals.
For example, maybe you are earning your degree at Strayer to change your career from retail to accounting. The problem that you are working to solve is how to gain the knowledge, skills, and credentials that will allow you to get a job as an entry-level accountant.

Similarly, three things that you can do today to help with your goal might be:

Create a profile on LinkedIn
Network with accounting firms in my area to find out what they look for in new hires
Research and join a professional association for accounting
If you need help brainstorming activities, check out our Career Services through iCampus.

To receive full credit, remember to write 2 posts in the discussion: one original and a response to another student. Your original should be at least 7 sentences, and your reply should be 4 sentences.

Proposal Paper: Topic Selection

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COUC 515

Proposal Paper: Topic Selection Instructions

The purpose of this assignment is for you to identify 3 topics that are “researchable” ideas (Rockinson-Szapkiw & Knight, 2012; see below for more information) and list those topics from 1–3 in order of preference. You must also include a bibliography with quotes from the “Recommendations for Future Research” sections of peer-reviewed articles that indicate this research is needed in the field of counseling. Peer-reviewed research articles must be from the last 5 years (otherwise the gap may have been filled).

 

Step 1: Inquiry. Come up with 3 topics of interest. Here is one example: “I wonder if religion and depression are related in older adults (65 and above).”

The three researchable topics are listed below that I have chosen

· Why does African American mothers use more intense displinary practice than African American fathers

· What’s behing the higher suicide rate among black children

· How is child abuse related to mental health issues

Step 2: Review the peer-reviewed literature to identify gaps in the literature for each of the 3 topics. For example, one peer-reviewed article on your topic of interest may state, “We recommend further research on the impact of religiosity on depression prognosis, looking in particular at community samples, younger patients, and people from non-Christian faiths (Payman & Ryburn, 2010, p. 566).”

Step 3: Put together a bibliography in current APA format. The bibliography must include at least 1 article per topic that suggests that the particular research topic/question is “researchable” (see Step 2 for more information). You must include a brief 1–2-sentence summary of each article in the bibliography.

Example:

Bibliography

Payman, V., & Ryburn, B. (2010). Religiousness and recovery from inpatient geriatric depression: Findings from the PEJAMA study. Australian and New Zealand journal of psychiatry, 44(6), 560–67. Retrieved from http://www.serialsolutions.com.

This is where you will place a brief summary of the article’s contents and how it relates to the topic selection. Remember it should be 1–2 sentences.

This assignment will be submitted via Blackboard and LiveText.

 

This assignment is due by 11:59 p.m. (ET) on Sunday of Module/Week 1.