Advocating for clients is something that every mental health counselor should be familiar with; however, there may be times when counselors do not properly advocate for their clients. This may happen for a number of reasons, but it is important to be aware of different advocacy processes so you can better assist your clients.
Imagine you are a mental health counselor who has been asked to help your agency develop a program for a specific cultural population. Your agency will be providing mental health counseling to a community that is mostly foreign to your staff. Before you begin seeing clients, your agency decides to conduct a cultural study of the population. You have been tasked with sharing your cultural findings with your colleagues. Your goal is to provide culturally responsive mental health counseling services in the community.
Choose a cultural group with whom you have little familiarity to research as the focus of this project. Select a different group than the one you investigated in the Week 3 Cultural Plunge.
Research the population through academic, peer-reviewed studies.
Note: As part of your research, you can either observe the population, interview members of the population or service providers, or participate with members of the population in a routine activity.
Create one of the following to present your cultural study:
A 10- to 15-slide Microsoft PowerPoint presentation with detailed speaker notes and/or audio narration to explain the slides.
Present the following information from your research:
Explain how studying this population to understand more about their culture upholds the multicultural counseling competencies.
Summarize the social structure, beliefs, values, and spoken language of your chosen population.
Describe the educational, professional, and social struggles facing your chosen population.
Explain mental health risk factors common among your chosen population.
Describe preferred methods for this population to seek help for their mental health problems.
Describe common issues with public policy and advocacy for the accessibility of mental health services for this population.
Describe the counseling approach and interventions that best fit the needs of this population.
Summarize strategies for advocating for this population that you could take in your role as their counselor.
Explain how advocating for your clients by eliminating barriers and reducing intentional and unintentional oppression and discrimination fulfills your social justice role as a counselor.
A constitution can be characterized as a set down standards for the administration which are on numerous occasions arranged as a type of composed original copy that illuminates and limits the capacities and capacity to practice power of an ideological group (control). On account of nations and sovereign locales of administrative states the expression alludes only to a constitution characterizing the center standards of legislative issues, and establishing the arrangement, techniques, obligations, of a legislature. Most constitutions ensure rights to the general population by constraining the administration’s very own scope. We will look at and differentiating the American constitution against the Iraqi constitution. The two constitutions are arranged. Under the support of a British military occupation in 1925, Iraqis first constitution went into power which at that point shaped a government which stayed as a result until in 1958, the unrest built up a republic. Interval constitutions have been embraced throughout the years however a submission that occurred in 2005 affirmed the constitution right now being utilized by Iraqis. Then again the American constitution is viewed as establishment and premise of the lawful appropriate to practice control over another (expert) fundamental to the presence of the United States of America and the central legislature of the United States. It concedes the structure for the organization of the United States government and for the affinity of the national government to the states, to residents, and to all individuals inside the United States.
The two constitutions sympathize majority rules system. The constitutions try to ensure the respect and freedom of man. The constitutions disallow any sort of passionate, mental, or physical torment. The two constitutions are aware of the welfare and security of its kin notwithstanding the opportunity of correspondence the constitutions give that the opportunity can be broken by a legal choice at whatever point it involves national security. These influence the individual privileges of the native. There is likewise opportunity of love in the constitutions in spite of the fact that the Iraq constitution further expresses that Islam is the official language.
As indicated by the Iraqi constitution area three part articles 49 the gathering of agents will be chosen and will comprise of various individuals at a proportion of one part for each 100,000 Iraqi people. These delegates will be chosen by an immediate mystery general vote. The individuals are chosen for a term of 4 years. The president is chosen by the board of delegates by a 66% lion’s share and is restricted to 2 terms in office with a range of 4years in 1 term. The leader of Iraq has two delegates with whom they structure an administration chamber. The administration committee names the head administrator of Iraq and bureau priests who must be endorsed by gathering. There ought to be 66% greater part for a president to be chosen. The American constitution expresses that the president has all the official power vested on him the president is the main ambassador and the president of the military. For a limit of two four-year terms the president and VP are chosen as running mates by the Electoral College for which each single state is apportioned various seats dependent on its portrayal on the senate and House of Representatives whose individuals from both the houses are chosen by the Americans. Â The VP is second most elevated official officer of the administration. The VP is just permitted to cast a ballot in the senate to break a vote which is tied. The CEO of the United States is the Secretary of State. The Secretary of state is named by the president and is the third most noteworthy positioning individual from the legislature and they answer straightforwardly to the president. In the USA constitution the Supreme Court is the most noteworthy court of the land. The court is in charge of issues managing state question, and translating the constitution of the USA and overrules a few enactments in this way making points of reference for future reference. The preeminent and lower court judges are chosen by the general population while the rest are delegated since they are in the government. The Iraqi constitution gives that nearby court judges are delegated by the neighborhood specialist, while the central government designates the incomparable judges. Islam is likewise viewed as a wellspring of enactment and the laws of organization encircle Shariah laws
U.S. residents have practically all inclusive suffrage from the age of 18. The state governments have the most extreme effect over most Americans’ everyday lives. The Tenth Amendment to the United States Constitution guarantees their expansive range entire forces, against the restricted spell out forces controlled by the national government; therefore, they handle the majority of the issues most relevant for most people inside their locale. The representative is the most noteworthy chosen official at each state is the senator. There is likewise a chosen state lawmaking body in each state with the exception of Nebraska (bicameralism), whose individuals speak to the state voters. The town, city, or region sheets are the establishments in charge of nearby governments. The lawmaking body in each state ought to stipulate the time way and spots of holding races for congresspersons and agents. Iraq has a unicameral council
The leader of the United Sates gets pay, which may not be expanded or diminished amid their time in office; for being the president. Capability for administration in the United States incorporate; a characteristic conceived resident U. S. A, no less than 35 years old and have lived in the states for a long time. The delegates must be of an age of 25 or above, and residents of the land for at least 7 years and an occupant of the state they are chosen. The congresspersons must be 30years and have been residents of that states for a long time and should be occupants of the state at the time.
The alterations as given by the constitution of the United States might be endorsed in the accompanying ways: by exceptional tradition from congress, sanctioned by 66% of the two houses and sent for endorsement to the states, or by 66% of the state governing bodies applying to Congress for a protected assembly to think about corrections, which are then sent for endorsement to the states. Any changes to the Iraqi constitution would need to be endorsed by a comparable choice to the one that had affirmed it initially.
Opportunities are to be filled by writs of race issued by the official expert at whatever point opening occur from the portrayal of any state (Section 2, Clause 4,).
Madison gives it is of extraordinary significance not exclusively to protect one piece of the general public against shamefulness yet in addition to watch the opposite side of society against abuse from its rulers (1788). Thanksgiving has turned into a colossal customary American occasion, at that point there’s freedom day which commends the announcement of autonomy which are for the most part national occasions and instituted in the constitution.
Both the Iraq and the United States constitutions try to serve their kin who have diverse socioeconomics. Every one of the constitutions has the interests of the general population on a basic level concentrating on the diverse ways of life and societies of two unique individuals. In the wake of dissecting both the constitutions and the exploration material which I have experienced which a portion of the data is excluded I locate that the two constitutions are extremely viable.