While contemplating my fourth journal, thoughts of how this multiculturalism class has addressed my effectiveness as a future counselor with culturally diverse clients remain in the forefront of my mind. By tackling issues such as microagressions in a clinical setting and their impact on a client and the effects of class bound values in today’s conventional models of counseling, I am able to reflect on my self-awareness and personal growth. My development is evident as I analyze my existing assets and limitations as a culturally competent therapist and how I can support my strengths and attend to my weaknesses.
Part A: Reflection 1) There are varieties of transitory commonplace interactions and environmental indignities that cast disparaging significances to marginalized clients that may occur in the clinical counseling practice by culturally inept therapists. Microaggressions such as; ascription of intelligence, colorblindness, or the myth of meritocracy, to name a few, have had detrimental …show more content…
When a counselor in power only believes in the Western ideology of individualism and that everyone can just “pull themselves up by their own bootstraps, he/she demeans the value and the Eastern culture of collectivism. I myself had to process the fact that I believed that independence and individuality was the ideal and I lessened the impact that collectivism had on a client. Thus, as I took more classes my eyes were opened to the fact of how beneficial a collective society is for some individuals. As counselors, we must understand how culture affects the expression of emotions and cognitions and realize that one’s own worldview is not the only suitable world view for a healthy
Part A: Reflection 1) There are varieties of transitory commonplace interactions and environmental indignities that cast disparaging significances to marginalized clients that may occur in the clinical counseling practice by culturally inept therapists. Microaggressions such as; ascription of intelligence, colorblindness, or the myth of meritocracy, to name a few, have had detrimental …show more content…
When a counselor in power only believes in the Western ideology of individualism and that everyone can just “pull themselves up by their own bootstraps, he/she demeans the value and the Eastern culture of collectivism. I myself had to process the fact that I believed that independence and individuality was the ideal and I lessened the impact that collectivism had on a client. Thus, as I took more classes my eyes were opened to the fact of how beneficial a collective society is for some individuals. As counselors, we must understand how culture affects the expression of emotions and cognitions and realize that one’s own worldview is not the only suitable world view for a healthy