Mental health counselors should understand different cultural populations to provide culturally responsive services. The document discusses developing a program for a specific cultural group. It instructs researching a cultural population through academic studies to present as a PowerPoint. The presentation should explain how understanding the population's culture upholds counseling competencies, summarize the population's social structure, beliefs, values and language, and describe mental health risks, help-seeking behaviors, advocacy and counseling strategies for that population.

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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.