Discuss messages about gender you have received from your family or cultural group.

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Many marketing efforts perpetuate the gender stereotypes that are steeped in our culture. Two examples at attempts to maintain these stereotypes through advertising are the Bic Critsal For Her and the Easy Bake Oven. These two conceivably innocuous items triggered a flood of articles, petitions, and videos, denouncing their perceived underlying messages.

The first controversy that erupted surrounded the Bic Cristal For Her pen. This pen was created and packaged specifically for women to use. Several groups lashed out at Bic, calling their attempt to target women with “lady pens” sexist and demeaning. Its detractors felt the campaign was degrading and fed into stereotypes by highlighting the thin design and the use of pastel colors. The negative press was overwhelming, although the pens have remained on the market.

Consumers also targeted those responsible for marketing the Easy Bake Oven by sending a petition asking its parent company Hasbro to make the ovens in colors other than pink and purple. Thousands of individuals signed the petition asking for alternative oven colors after a teenage girl from New Jersey was angered that her younger brother would have no other option but to use an oven in the colors that are considered stereotypically female. It was argued that the colors supported the stereotypical view that only young girls would want to bake. The signers of the petition felt that young boys who might want to use the toy would be more likely to practice their baking skills if the color of the oven was gender neutral.

Consider these two stories and think about your own reactions to the responses to the advertising and merchandising of these items.

To prepare: the assigned resources and reflect on your experience with gender.

Submit a 2- to 4- page paper, in which you:

  • Identify specific messages about gender presented in the mass media.
  • Discuss messages about gender you have received from your family or cultural group.
  • Analyze how these messages have influenced your experience with gender.
  • Explain how you might address issues related to sexism in the mass media and diverse cultural beliefs about gender and gender roles in your social work practice.

Assignment 1: Cultural Values

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In this module, you learned about African, Asian, Hawaiian, and Pacific Island cultures. You learned about cultural values that are prominent in these cultures and about the impact that history has had on these cultures. In addition, you reviewed the impact of historical events that contribute to oppression and discrimination of said populations.

Tasks:

In a minimum of 200 words, post to the Discussion Area your responses to the following:

  • Identify and discuss one historical event that has contributed to the oppression and discrimination of said populations.
  • Identify two of the populations’ cultural values and analyze the way they may impact the counseling dynamic.
  • Identify one technique/strategy that you could use to address a concern of a client who identifies as African, Asian, Hawaiian, or Pacific Islander.
  • Explain why you chose that technique/strategy.
  • Use specific examples and consider the impact of intercultural differences.
  • Consider the institutional and social barriers that impact this population when choosing your technique. Support your use of this technique with appropriate literature.
  • Identify at least one way that counselors can advocate for the populations discussed in this module.

Support your rationale and analysis by using at least two resources from professional literature in your response. Professional literature may include the Argosy University online library resources, relevant textbooks, peer-reviewed journal articles, and websites created by professional organizations, agencies, or institutions (websites ending in .edu or .gov).

Your discussion posts and all written assignments should reflect graduate-level writing skills and appropriate use of APA style, including in-text citations and references.

Submission Details:

Child abuse reporting can take its toll on the therapist, particularly if the family or client involved is volatile.

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Max Points: 5.0

Child abuse reporting can take its toll on the therapist, particularly if the family or client involved is volatile. Discuss how one’s own apprehension and nervousness could “get in the way” of reporting child abuse immediately, and ways to combat this tendency to procrastinate. In addition, provide your understanding of the time requirements for child abuse reporting in your state.

This discussion question meets the following CACREP Standard: 2.F.7.d. Procedures for identifying trauma and abuse and for reporting abuse

Describe how culture can play a major part in the counseling process.

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THIS ASSIGNMENT MUST BE DONE IN APA FORMAT NO PLAGIARISM OF ANY KIND

  

EDRC 529 PRE- PRACTICUM IN REHABILITATION COUNSELING

MIDTERM EXAM

  1. Describe how culture can play a major part in the counseling process. How should a counselor handle a client with a differing cultural background? (20)

2. Following is a client narrative from a counseling session. At each point where the typescript has an asterisk [*], provide a counselor response and identify what type of response it is.(20)

When I went back home last weekend, my parents told me that they had decided to separate and maybe divorce [*] and it really threw me. [*] Then they watched me the entire weekend, I guess to see how I was reacting to them. [*] Anyhow, I just pulled in and didn’t give them anything to react to. I couldn’t. I didn’t know what to say. [*] I mean, I knew that they had been having some trouble, but I never expected this. So they just unloaded and what was I to do with that? [*] What would you do? [*] By Saturday night, I had to get out, get away from the house, because all I was doing was staying in my room and crying, [*] so I called a friend and we went out and really got wasted. I haven’t been so drunk in a long time. [*] Then Sunday morning, I was, like, really feeling it, and that’s when they chose to try to have a conversation with me about their reasons for deciding to separate. I mean, I just couldn’t hack it and so I packed up and left early to come back to school.[*]

  1. What do you think is the most important stage of the counseling relationship?    Why? How does your choice reflect your theoretical biases? Your own cultural background and values? Your gender? Would you consider yourself      more attuned to what people do, to what people think, or to how people feel? How much of people’s reactions can be attributed to their personal  qualities? How much to their current environment? How much to their cultural background?
  2. Listed next are four client situations. For the first two, develop and write an      example of a self-disclosure response you might make to this client. For the second two, develop and write an example of an immediacy response you      could use with this client. (20)

a. The client hints that he wants to tell you something, but he is reluctant to do so because it is something he feels very ashamed of.

b. The client believes she is the only person who has ever felt guilty about a particular issue.

c. You experience a great deal of tension and caution between yourself and the client. You both seem to be treating each other with kid gloves. You are aware of physical sensations of tension in your body, and you observe signs of similar sensations in the client.

d. You and your client like each other a great deal and have a lot in common. Lately, you have been spending more time swapping life stories than focusing on or dealing with the client’s presented concern of career indecision.

  1. Respond in writing to each of the following three client      messages. (20)
  2. Client:      “I’m tired of sitting at home alone, but I feel so uncomfortable going out      by myself.”
    1. Cognitive       part of message:  
    2. Affective       part of message:  
    3. Paraphrase       of cognitive part:  
    4. Paraphrase       of affective part:  
  3. Client:      “I don’t know why we got married in the first place.”
    1. Cognitive part of message:  
    2. Affective part of message:  
    3. Paraphrase of cognitive part:  
    4. Paraphrase of affective part:  
  4. Client:   “The pressure from my job is a lot to contend with, but I expected it”      (said with strained voice, furrowed brow, twisting of hands).
    1. Cognitive  part of message:  
    2. Affective part of message:  
    3. Reflection of content:                                                                                                       __
    4. Reflection of feeling:                                                                                                       __