- Select a hypothetical client and use the Client Vignettes (opens in a new window) [Original Media] to provide you with background for your chosen client you will work with for the duration of the mastery assignment parts.
- Research your chosen vignette’s culture through a social justice lens. Consider the following questions:
- What is the societal challenge for the client?
- Why might the client be struggling?
- What are the historical and political contexts of the social justice issue?
- What are the social impacts on the client?
- How might the cultural factors and perceptions of bias, prejudice, discrimination, privilege, and oppression impact the client’s relationships within families, friends, or the great community?
- How will this impact your relationship with the client within the mental health profession (i.e. the client’s relationship with you the mental health professional, you the health professional relationship with the client and the client’s relationship with mental health industry views)?
- What are your prior positive or negative assumptions and biases toward your client? Why?
- What questions and research challenged you to address your cultural assumptions?
- Research culturally responsive assessments and intervention strategies for that culture and analyze how they impact the client. Use the research to identify three culturally competent assessments and three intervention strategies.
- Create a narrated presentation discussing the findings from your research of the client’s culture through a social justice lens and the impact of the culturally competent assessments and intervention strategies.
- Submit your PDF slide notes and narrated presentation by uploading the file or providing a link by the specified deadline.
Resources
- Client Vignettes (opens in a new window) [Original Media]
- Narrated Presentation Helps (opens in a new window)
Requirements
- Citation Requirements: minimum of 4 scholarly sources and 5 citations
- Presentation Length: 5-7 minutes
- APA Formatting
- Plagiarism Submission
- Submit a narrated presentation
Before you submit a file…
- Check your document for spelling and grammatical errors.
- Refer to your course syllabus (opens in new window) for details on grading criteria and the university’s late work policy.
*Note: This activity will be checked for plagiarism and AI-generated content. Always review the University’s Academic Integrity Policy (opens in a new window) statement regarding plagiarism and the use of AI. Learn more about Plagiarism (opens in a new window)