The implications of counseling immigrants will be met with some challenges as they may view this as an extension of the government, therefore reject the necessary assistance needed. In our society, we have seen that we are biased concerning immigrant as they are taking jobs, they add to population growth so that they can stay in the States, and the language barriers are difficult to overcome. Again, language barriers are a constant problem when counseling immigrants, therefore, as suggested by Dr. Sue, there should be trained interpreters present, they should be trained in relationship skills, the clients should feel comfortable with both the counselor and the interpreter, and understand that some of the clients are traumatized, which can cause emotional responses in them and to exercise self-care strategies (Sue D.W, Sue, D. 2013). p. 465. In counseling within this population, trust is most imperative, as some immigrants from Third World countries, have been traumatized and are leery of their surrounding …show more content…
The most profound statement that Dr. Parham made in the video that each of us has a self-healing power inside of us and should be recognized as an aspect to tap into that self-healing idea that the client has and believes. I as an African American female believe that we are bred to be survivors, therefore our strength be overbearing. We as counselors and therapists are called to be healers and we serve as a conduit to ensure that healing takes place. We must identify that the African people are more spiritualists – not the mystical spiritualism but the ancestral type of spirituality and that their spirit is always present, in that they respect the divineness that is from their historical and cultural identity. I must understand that my blackness and my culture may not be identifiable with what they hold sacred. I was impacted by the video as the scene with the young male and the connection the counselor achieved with him, identifying all that he held important and inviting those elements into the self-healing process. This to me was a very interesting concept and I found it to me an element that would be therapeutic in all counseling scenario’s as we counsel the diverse populations. I liked that Dr. Parham noted that African culture considered everything interconnected in the world, the elements in the world are of the