Cultural Considerations for Goal Setting and Treatment Planning

Cultural Considerations for Goal Setting and Treatment Planning

You will ultimately want to compare and contrast cultural considerations between the two populations when identifying needs and goals for your populations, so what could this potentially mean when developing a culturally sensitive treatment plan?Cultural Cultural Considerations in Two Treatment Approaches

Now choose two treatment approaches based on the disorder. When choosing two approaches, these do not necessarily need to be those that are shown to be effective for treating the disorder. The approaches you choose can be approaches that you identify with or ones that might be appropriate for the culture. You will then research the effectiveness of your chosen therapeutic approaches when used in treating the populations you chose and compare and contrast the findings. You will also want to discuss any modifications to the approaches that might be necessary to remain culturally sensitive.

Self-Reflection on Cultural Awareness and Competence

For the last part of this assignment, you will once again have to engage in self-reflection. In this section, discuss what you learned throughout this assignment. For example, did you have preconceived notions about assessment, diagnosis, and treatment among clients? How did this assignment change the way you will address clients in the future? To what extent do you feel you were culturally competent when you started this assignment and how has your cultural awareness increased as a result of researching and completing this assignment? Will you also want to discuss personal and professional areas for growth? What additional education, training, or experience do you believe is necessary to increase your cultural awareness and competency?

Your assignment should also meet the following requirements:

Written communication: Written communication is free of errors that detract from the overall message.

APA formatting: Resources and in-text citations are formatted according to current APA style and formatting. See Evidence and APA page on Campus for guidance.

The number of resources: A minimum of five scholarly sources from current professional literature in counseling within the past 5 years.