Wellness

1. After completing your assigned readings on wellness and resilience, create a brief case scenario regrading the application of the wellness model to a targeted group of clients within a community. Once you have described your scenario and population, address the following:

A. Describe the counselor’s role in promoting optimal human development, wellness, and mental health through prevention and education activities

B. Discuss the importance of the counselor’s role in developing cultural self- awareness: promoting cultural social justice, advocacy, and conflict resolution; as well as other culturally supported behaviors, in order to promote optimal wellness and growth of the human spirit.

C. Incorporate theories and models of individual, cultural, couples, family, and community resilience as well as theories for facilitating optimal development and wellness over the life span.