Culture and Ethics
RUNNING HEAD: NOT A BAD GIRL
Not A Bad Girl: A Case study by Presented in Partial Fulfillment
Of the Requirements of COUN5240 – Counseling Children
[Dr. Kathy Blaydes]
[December 2009]
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Cultural Considerations The client is a Black female and is being raised in a less than perfect urban environment. Some issues that must be considered are her ethnicity, social status, and cultural reference group and how these factors come to bear upon the pathology of her disorder . There is also the potential of filtering specific criteria based if the clinician’s personal view is that the client is more prone to have certain antisocial traits than a different race or culture. . There are well-documented studies of the effects of low-income on the health and mental status of adults as well as children (Abernathy, Webster, & Vermeulen, 2002). The effects of poverty leave emotional scars on children that may continue to cause pain and disorder well into adult hood . Young African American females are more likely to come from a low socioeconomic background and be stricken by various social forces such as racism, poverty, and
Not A Bad Girl: A Case study by Presented in Partial Fulfillment
Of the Requirements of COUN5240 – Counseling Children
[Dr. Kathy Blaydes]
[December 2009]
|Address:. | |
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|Clarksville, TN, 37042 | |
|Phone: | |
|E-mail: | |
|Instructor: Dr. Kathy Blaydes | |
|Mentor: | |
Cultural Considerations The client is a Black female and is being raised in a less than perfect urban environment. Some issues that must be considered are her ethnicity, social status, and cultural reference group and how these factors come to bear upon the pathology of her disorder . There is also the potential of filtering specific criteria based if the clinician’s personal view is that the client is more prone to have certain antisocial traits than a different race or culture. . There are well-documented studies of the effects of low-income on the health and mental status of adults as well as children (Abernathy, Webster, & Vermeulen, 2002). The effects of poverty leave emotional scars on children that may continue to cause pain and disorder well into adult hood . Young African American females are more likely to come from a low socioeconomic background and be stricken by various social forces such as racism, poverty, and
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