Diverse clients

You have explored seven diverse clients in the Riverbend City Career Counseling scenarios media piece designed to enhance your cultural competence and ability to work with a variety of life situations. For this assignment, you may select from the following clients: Juan, Vaughn, Crystal, Scott, or Sarah. Using the Career Counseling Theory Case Study Template [DOCX], select your client and a career counseling theory to support your client. In your paper, address the following:

Identify and describe the key components of your selected theory.

Provide a rationale as to why you have selected this career theory based on your client’s characteristics by analyzing the clients interrelationships among and between work, mental well-being, and other life roles and factors.

Using scholarly research findings, provide evidence for the use of this theory with your client based on their multicultural identity.

Identify a small-scale and a large-scale strategy for supporting your client’s career and/or educational development or employment opportunities.

An example of a small-scale strategy for supporting your client’s career development is referring them to a support group at the local community college for single mothers.

An example of a large-scale strategy is to advocate for universal childcare for working parents.

Assignment Requirements

Your paper should meet the following requirements:

Written communication: Written communication is free of grammar, spelling, and format errors that detract from the overall message.

APA formatting: Resources and citations are formatted according to current APA style and formatting guidelines. You may reference the Capella Writing Center: Evidence and APALinks to an external site..

Length of paper: 45 typed, double-spaced pages of content, in addition to the references page.

About one page for the theory description.

About one to two pages for the rationale.

About one page for the analysis and justification of the theory based on the clients multicultural identity.

About one page for advocacy strategies.

References: A minimum of three scholarly, peer-reviewed journal articles.

Font and font size: Times New Roman, 12 point.

Competencies Measured

By successfully completing this assignment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and rubric criteria:

Competency 1: Apply relevant theory and research findings to inform the practice of career counseling, development, and consulting across the life span.

Describes the key components of a career counseling theory.

Analyzes the interrelationships pertaining to work, mental well-being, family, and other life roles and factors.

Competency 3: Analyze legal, ethical, and multicultural issues related to the career development process.

Analyzes research findings related to the use of a chosen career counseling theory to a diverse client.

Analyzes the diversity aspects of the chosen strategies to advocate on behalf of a client’s career and educational development.

Competency 5: Communicate in a manner that is scholarly, respectful of the diversity, dignity, and integrity of others and consistent with the codes of ethics guiding members of the counseling profession.

Conveys purpose, in an appropriate tone and style, incorporating supporting evidence and adhering to organizational, professional, and scholarly writing standards.