ESSAY ASSIGNMENT
Provide short answers of 150-200 total words (per essay). Do not exceed 200 words for your responses.
ESSAY 1
Address the following components regarding your decision to apply for a Master’s degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling at Grand Canyon University (MCMHC).
What is your desired career path after earning a Master’s degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling at Grand Canyon University?
Describe how your personal experience influenced your decision.
Describe how your previous academic experience influenced your decision.
Never graduated highschool, but managed to get into csuf by going back to school at a community college at the age of 23 (largely avoided college due to my experience doing poorly with school).
Describe how your professional experience influenced your decision
ESSAY 2
Consider the following disposition: “Cultural Diversity – Counselors promote, honor, and embrace diversity and a multicultural approach that supports the worth, dignity, potential, and uniqueness of people within their social and cultural context. Counselors promote self-advocacy and assist clients in advocating for empowerment within their cultural context.”
Address the following components regarding cultural diversity in counseling:
Clearly explain how you would uphold the Cultural Diversity disposition as a professional counselor.
Provide a concrete example of what that looks like.
Provide scholarly support citing a minimum of one peer-reviewed research article and include APA (7th edition) formatted in-text citation(s) and corresponding reference(s).
