SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES IN CLIENT POPULATIONS

LEARNING RESOURCES

Required Readings

Sweitzer, H. F., & King, M. A. (2019). The successful internship: Personal, professional, and civic development in experiential learning(5th ed.). Cengage. 

Chapter 7, “Working with Clients” (pp. 198–203)

Walden University. (2017d). Safety in fieldLinks to an external site.[Webinar]. Available from http://academicguides.waldenu.edu/c.php?g=81877&p=…

• To locate and view the “Safety in Field” webinar, click on the link referenced above, and then locate the applicable webinar link.

Submit a reflection paper in which you do the following:

Describe the client population with you are currently working. Identify clients:

• Backgrounds

Reasons for seeking services

• Personalities

Histories

Behaviors

Explain whether or not the population you are serving is heterogenous. Consider:

Race

Ethnicity

• Social Class
• Religion

Gender

• Sexual Orientation

Explain how similar or different your clients are from you. In your explanation, answer the following questions:

• What do you have in common with them?
• What aspects of their lives and lived experiences are different from yours?
• Explain the importance of recognizing these similarities and differences.
• Explain how this knowledge impacts your work with clients.