Assignment 10
Essays II

Your responses must be supported and substantiated by the information discussed by the text authors. All assignments MUST be typed, double-spaced, in APA style, and must be written at graduate level English. Please use the reading assignments to substantiate your responses, citing in APA format.

Your response to each question should be 1/2 – 1 page. Your entire assignment should be 2-4 pages plus a title and reference page. For years homosexuality was considered a mental illness in the United States. Is it still perceived as an illness today? Do you agree or disagree?
Research shows that in Buddhist and Western societies may encourage two somewhat different types of motivation, namely “maximizing” and “satisfying.” Explain both briefly.
What cross-cultural limitations to you see in Erikson’s, Piaget’s and Kohlberg’s theories?
Explain why people in non-Western cultures tend to “somatize” their distress, whereas people Western cultures have the tendency to “psychologize” it.
Assignment Outcomes:

Analyze your own cultural background  

Compare and contrast issues and practices relevant to helping people from culturally diverse backgrounds  

Assess processes and issues related to clients of various ethnic, cultural & diverse origins  Identify patterns of social injustice, racial and ethnic adaptation  

Analyze the global expansion of racism