Personal Action Plan
Order Description
Personal Action Plan
1. Identify one personal goal that you will continue to work on that is amid at further developing
your cultural competence as a counselor as you wok with particular cultural identity group. (my
personal goal is working with elderly clients)
2. You will examine your own self and decided what personal learning about disabled body folks you
want to make the focus of your action plan. What are you willing to do to develop your cultural
competency in regard to the disabled bodied community. How are you willing are you to stretch your
“comfort zone”? (This is not for you to identify a particular problem population with whom you
might want to work more effectively) this is intended to address your personal learning objectives
from this class. In regard to race, ethnicity, gender, socioeconomic status/ class, sexual
orientation ability physical or mental and age.
3. Describe why you chose this goal?
4. Identify at least one feature for each of the Multicultural Counseling Competencies (awareness,
knowledge and skills) described in Sue and Sue(2016) (box2.1 pages 59-60) that you commit to
developing around your goal and describe what you intend to do to develop those aspects of your
professional competence.
5. Describe what steps will be involved in planning and implementing your personal action plan.
6. Identify what personal resources you bring to support your action plan and how these resources
will support your attaining your goals.
7. Identify personal challenges you anticipate that might occur in implementing your plan and how
you might address these challenges.
8. Specify what supports you will need to implement your action plan
9. In conclusion Speak to what you hope will be different for you and for your clients when you are
successful in reaching your cultural competency goal.
Text book: Sue, D.W., & Sue. D. (2016) Counseling the Culturally Diverse: Theory and Practice (7th
edition) New york: Wiley