Cultural Autobiography Paper
Question Description
Cultural Autobiography
PROFESSIONAL CONTEXT
Sue and Sue (2016) observed that each of us is “born into a cultural matrix of beliefs, values, rules, and social practices” and that this has a “powerful influence” over our views of self and others (p. 50). One aspect of building awareness of our own worldviews is to consider our group memberships and personal identity development. This is essential so that we may approach counseling or therapy with an awareness of our own worldviews so that we do not impose them on clients, and likewise practice with an appreciation for our clients’ worldviews and how those may exert a powerful influence on their views of mental health and help-seeking.
SCENARIO
While working through your internship at the Riverbend City clinic, you are also enrolled in a classroom experience as part of your internship requirement. Your program strives to deliver excellent training and has embraced a real commitment to preparing students for effective and ethical work with diverse populations. As such, the subject of cultural competence is infused throughout the curriculum. Your internship course is no exception, hence you find that you have been assigned to write your own cultural autobiography as a way of bringing greater awareness to your worldview and how that may impact your counseling or therapy relationships and the counseling or therapy process.Cultural Autobiography Paper
Reference
Sue, D. W., & Sue, D. (2016). Counseling the culturally diverse: Theory and practice (7th ed.). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.
ASSIGNMENT INSTRUCTIONS
Based on the data you gather from interviewing a family members and members of a group (who share your cultural heritage), peer-reviewed articles, your assigned readings, and personal reflections write a cultural autobiography that reflects on concepts such as acculturation, personal identity development, and the impacts of identity and culture have on professional practice.
In your autobiography, make sure you address the following:
Describe how your cultural heritage, including spiritual or religious traditions, and your family’s experience with acculturation have contributed to your family’s and your worldview.
Explain which groups or aspects of your cultural heritage and your spiritual or religious orientation have been most salient to your personal identity development.
Explain how experiences of privilege and discrimination for you or your family, based on your cultural heritage and spiritual or religious orientation have contributed to your family’s and your perspectives on seeking professional help.
Assess how your cultural heritage and spiritual or religious orientation will present opportunities or challenges for you in applying Multicultural Counseling and Therapy with diverse populations.
Communicate reflections related to cultural heritage and personal identity as they apply and impact personal practice using field appropriate language and writing mechanics acceptable for professional counseling or therapy settings.
Integrate relevant sources and personal communications to support assertions, correctly formatting citations and references using current APA style.
The Unit 4 – Cultural Autobiography APA Sample (linked in the resources) provides you with an example APA structure for this assignment. It also provides some guidance, or ideas about what you might want to include in each section to successfully address all of the scoring guide criteria for the assignment.Cultural Autobiography Paper
SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS
Your paper should meet the following requirements:
Template: Use the template provided in the resources.
Written communication: Written communication must be grammatically correct and free of errors that detract from the overall message. Writing should be consistent with the graduate-level scholarship.
Note: Because this is an autobiography, this assignment may be written using the first person.
APA format: Title page, main body, and references should be formatted according to the current APA style and formatting.
Number of resources: A minimum of four scholarly resources from peer-reviewed journals published within the past 5–7 years. Distinguished submissions typically exceed this minimum.
Length of paper: 3–5 typed double-spaced pages, not including the title page and reference page.
Font and font size: Times New Roman, 12 point.
attachment_1
ORDER NOW FOR AN ORIGINAL PAPER ASSIGNMENT: Discussion: COUN5336 Capella University Cultural Autobiography Paper
You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.
Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.
Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.
The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.
ADDITIONAL INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE CLASS
Discussion Questions (DQ)
Initial responses to the DQ should address all components of the questions asked, include a minimum of one scholarly source, and be at least 250 words.
Successful responses are substantive (i.e., add something new to the discussion, engage others in the discussion, well-developed idea) and include at least one scholarly source.
One or two sentence responses, simple statements of agreement or “good post,” and responses that are off-topic will not count as substantive. Substantive responses should be at least 150 words.
I encourage you to incorporate the readings from the week (as applicable) into your responses.
Weekly Participation
Your initial responses to the mandatory DQ do not count toward participation and are graded separately.
In addition to the DQ responses, you must post at least one reply to peers (or me) on three separate days, for a total of three replies.
Participation posts do not require a scholarly source/citation (unless you cite someone else’s work).
Part of your weekly participation includes viewing the weekly announcement and attesting to watching it in the comments. These announcements are made to ensure you understand everything that is due during the week.
APA Format and Writing Quality
Familiarize yourself with APA format and practice using it correctly. It is used for most writing assignments for your degree. Visit the Writing Center in the Student Success Center, under the Resources tab in LoudCloud for APA paper templates, citation examples, tips, etc. Points will be deducted for poor use of APA format or absence of APA format (if required).
Cite all sources of information! When in doubt, cite the source. Paraphrasing also requires a citation.
I highly recommend using the APA Publication Manual, 6th edition.
Use of Direct Quotes
I discourage overutilization of direct quotes in DQs and assignments at the Masters’ level and deduct points accordingly.
As Masters’ level students, it is important that you be able to critically analyze and interpret information from journal articles and other resources. Simply restating someone else’s words does not demonstrate an understanding of the content or critical analysis of the content.
It is best to paraphrase content and cite your source.
LopesWrite Policy
For assignments that need to be submitted to LopesWrite, please be sure you have received your report and Similarity Index (SI) percentage BEFORE you do a “final submit” to me.
Once you have received your report, please review it. This report will show you grammatical, punctuation, and spelling errors that can easily be fixed. Take the extra few minutes to review instead of getting counted off for these mistakes.
Review your similarities. Did you forget to cite something? Did you not paraphrase well enough? Is your paper made up of someone else’s thoughts more than your own?
Visit the Writing Center in the Student Success Center, under the Resources tab in LoudCloud for tips on improving your paper and SI score.Cultural Autobiography Paper
Late Policy
The university’s policy on late assignments is 10% penalty PER DAY LATE. This also applies to late DQ replies.
Please communicate with me if you anticipate having to submit an assignment late. I am happy to be flexible, with advance notice. We may be able to work out an extension based on extenuating circumstances.
If you do not communicate with me before submitting an assignment late, the GCU late policy will be in effect.
I do not accept assignments that are two or more weeks late unless we have worked out an extension.
As per policy, no assignments are accepted after the last day of class. Any assignment submitted after midnight on the last day of class will not be accepted for grading.
Communication
Communication is so very important. There are multiple ways to communicate with me:
Questions to Instructor Forum: This is a great place to ask course content or assignment questions. If you have a question, there is a good chance one of your peers does as well. This is a public forum for the class.
Individual Forum: This is a private forum to ask me questions or send me messages. This will be checked at least once every 24 hours.Cultural Autobiography Paper