Directions: Provide short answers of 150-200 total words (per essay). Please 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).
