Identify culture-specific characteristics that may impact counseling strategies

Unit 3 Assignment

Unit outcomes addressed in this assignment:

 Identify culture-specific characteristics that may impact counseling strategies

Course outcome assessed/addressed in this assignment:

GEL-5.1 Identify human expressions within cultures

Instructions

Imagine yourself in the role of a Nutrition Counselor and Josephine is your client. Josephine

is a 20-year-old female who is present for an eating disorder not otherwise specified. She

currently teaches salsa lessons at the community college and is in her last semester of

college. She reports she is living at home and the food her mom prepares is not the

healthiest because her mom is from Honduras and her father is from Guatemala, so the

food is prepared differently. She indicates she has been thin all her life, although she has

struggled to maintain her weight since going through puberty, and since she is a salsa

instructor, she has to remain fit. She reports she feels very guilty if she has consumed fried

foods during the day, but since that is the way her mom primarily cooks, she feels awful to

tell her mom to stop cooking that way. She reports if she does consume too much fried

foods or junk food, she will run at least 2-3 miles that day or else force herself to vomit, but

all the food does not come out. She reports sometimes if she has a later class, she will not

eat dinner or only eat 1 meal per day. She has tried counting calories, but then she gets so

mad at herself for having more than 1200 calories it causes her to exercise more, which

then leads her to feeling exhausted. She indicates she is on no medication, but does take a

multivitamin when she remembers. She indicates she has gone from 110 pounds to 125

pounds over 5 years and wants to be back down to 110 or even less. She also had gone to

the doctor and he was quite concerned with her lab values. She has provided you a 24 hour

meal record:

Breakfast:

1-6” corn tortilla

½ cup fried beans cooked with peppers, onions and oil

½ cup rice

1 cup no sugar added orange juice

Lunch:

1 slice of whole wheat bread

2 slices turkey

1 small apple

Dinner:

2- 6” tortillas

Beef with onions, peppers cooked in oil

Tomato, onion, pepper salad (made with oil and lime juice)

2 cups of rice

Height: 5’2” Weight: 117 pounds (based on your scale in the office)

Labs:

Test Result Reference Units

Albumin (visceral protein stores) 3.3 g/dL 3.5-4.8 g/dL

Sodium 133 mEq/L 136-145 mEq/L

Potassium 3.8 mEq/L 3.5-5.2 mEq/L

Iron 0.4 mg/dL 0.6-1.1 mg/dL

Vitamin B12 185 pg/mL 200-835 pg/mL

Questions for Unit 3:

1) What is Josephine’s culture? Specifically, in terms of family roles, traditional food,

and social customs.

2) How does her culture affect her food choices?

3) How would you need to change your counseling strategies to establish a trusting

relationship with Josephine?

4) What multicultural communication skills would you use to have a successful

nutrition counseling session?

Requirements

 This assignment needs to be at least one page in length and include at least one

reference.

 This Assignment should be in APA format and follow the conventions of Standard

American English (correct grammar, punctuation, etc.). Your writing should be well

ordered, logical, and unified, as well as original and insightful. Your work should

display superior content, organization, style, and mechanics. Be sure to use APA in-

text citations and a reference page to attribute each source.

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Submitting Your Work

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Unit 3 Assignment Grading Rubric = 80 points

Assignment Requirements Points

possible

Points

earned by

student

Discuss Josephine’s culture.

0-15

Discuss how her culture affects her food choices.

0-15

Discuss how you would need to change your

counseling strategies to establish a trusting

relationship with Josephine.

0-25

Discuss multicultural communication skills you would use to have a successful nutrition counseling session.

0-25

Total (Sum of all points)

Points deducted for spelling, grammar, and/or

APA errors.

Adjusted total points

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