Assignment:
First step:
• Describe the impact of culture on communication.
• Identify strategies you can use to demonstrate cultural sensitivity when working in human services settings. Be sure to use examples to help make your points.
Second step:
• Assess your own other-orientation, as described in the textbook, as one measure of self-awareness.
• Identify personal communication strengths and growth.
• Describe your strengths with regard to this perspective.
• Identify areas in which you would like to improve.
• Discuss how having a strong other-orientation might be helpful for interpersonal communication in human services.
Third step:
• Refer to textbook and other relevant resources.
• Explain how both culture and self-awareness may be critical in interpersonal communication in human services.
• Identify two to three examples of effective verbal and non-verbal communication techniques that can be used to demonstrate self-awareness and culture in human service settings.
Your Final Paper:
• Must be five double-spaced pages in length (not including title and reference pages) and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the University of Arizona Global Campus Writing Center.
• Must include a separate title page with the following:
o Title of paper
o Student's name
o Course name and number
o Instructor's name
o Date submitted
• Must use at least two scholarly sources in addition to the course text.
• Must document all sources in APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.