Learning Objectives

• Critically evaluate through a Social and Culturally Responsive and Socially Just (CRSJ) lens a chosen issue from your own life, or made up, presented in a therapy session.
• Describe how the counsellor developed aspects of the primary focus of factors both socially and culturally.
• Discuss how the counsellor developed the therapeutic relationship.
• Synthesize your understanding of the social and cultural lens.
• Demonstrate a clear and effective understanding by communicating through a narrative format using APA 7th ed style.

Purpose

The purpose of this assignment is to assist students to comprehend the social and cultural lens within the therapeutic process. It is important for counsellors to understand the aspects of social and cultural issues within a responsive and just manner in the therapy session with a client.

Instructions

This assignment is structured to allow the student to be the client. As the student is the client, write from a client's perspective, using first person pronoun where applicable, throughout the whole paper, the expectation is for the student to recognize what the experience is like and the value of what a trained counsellor brings to the experience: understanding the professional counsellor in this assignment will be your reading materials as they inform you of your topic and therapeutic relationship. The assignment is to promote the student's understanding of social and cultural aspects and their impact in understanding human thinking and behaviour