DISCUSSION ESSAY

Directions: 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.” Please 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).