Cultural Issues
Complete a short PowerPoint (4–5 slides – not including title and references).
Choose a specific population, examine cultural issues that might impact their choice to access, maintain use or engagement in psychotherapy following trauma, and create a presentation for your peers.
Instructions:
- Choose your population – Choose one you are not necessarily familiar with, but this population would be salient to your practice.
- Research what cultural issues have been found to impact access, engagement, and use of psychotherapy following trauma. Please utilize mostly scholarly sources.
- Create a PowerPoint presentation (4–5 slides – not including title and references). (You are not required to have voiceover.)
- Include the following slides:
- Title Slide
- Why are Cultural Issues important in Psychotherapy overall?
- What cultural issues surround processing of trauma for this population?
- Factors Impacting Access, Engagement, and the Use of Psychotherapy after trauma for this population.
- (Define Your Population) (address social, cultural, spiritual, language, economics, familial traditions, etc.)
- Additional info.
- References.
You can record your presentation video on a smartphone or on your computer.
You can also create a free Zoom account to use throughout the program to create videos. If you would like to use Zoom, please see Zoom Quick Start Instructions document in the Course Resources for more detailed instructions.
After your recording is complete, follow these instructions in the YouTube Video Instructions in Course Resources. You will need the YouTube video website/URL for this discussion. Submit your YouTube video website/URL (link) to this discussion page. The best way to do this is to copy and paste the website/URL for the YouTube video into a Word document and then post the Word document. Your instructor and peers will access your video via the link you share on the Discussion Board.
