Sue and Sue (2016) disclose that all cultures have specific heritages that make them different from each other. However, some of the distinctions can create monolithic view towards their attitudes and behaviors (Sue and Sue, 2016, p. 358). While working with different minority groups, it can be difficult assisting each minority group. Based on Sue and Sue’s (2016) research, they discuss the racial/cultural identity development stages that assists professionals counseling in the multicultural field (p. 358). While counseling white clients, a counselor must examine the White racial identity development model.…
When adhering to the client’s attitudes and beliefs, the ACA Code of Ethics addresses in F.2.a how supervisors must be aware of the multiculturalism and diversity. Also, in F.7.c, the code addresses how counseling educators must apply multiculturalism/diversity teachings into trainings, courses, and workshops to help educate professionals on multiculturalism. Lastly in section F.11. , it discusses multiculturalism/diversity within the counseling education and training programs. In F.11.a.…
An effective counselor will be aware of the cultural differences because they will need to incorporate it when helping the client. It is essential that the counselor have an understanding of the client’s culture. This will help them to understand what the client is going through and be aware of why it affects them in that way. Increasing one’s multicultural competency is a lifelong process in social advocacy (Hays & Gray, 2014, P.243). In conclusion, it is essential that the counselor in training realize that they have to understand and be knowledgeable about their client’s culture and word…
The relevance of the AMCD guidelines and standards is to facilitate the proficiencies for multicultural counseling to enhance their skills while in training, and during their practice to effectively work with diverse cultural clienteles. Therefore, the purpose of the AMCD is to provide a framework for professional counselors to use to ensure that they are maintaining human dignity and civil rights that is prescribed by the law. The AMCD mission is to predispose counselors who are culturally competent to understand the importance to develop appropriate attitudes, values, and address potential biases about a particular race. (AMCD, 1996). Finally, once multicultural counselors address potential issues, then they will notice personal…
Multicultural Psychology Chapters 7 & 8 Question Set 3 I am a 44 yr. old European American female who was happened to be raised by equal rights advocates. And although I admit being uninformed about privilege and the realities of racism, I do not feel that Helms’ contact is completely accurate for my 1st stage, or status. When my father says he “doesn’t see color” he means it as he feels it genuinely should be.…
Similarly, counselors are able to gain ample knowledge of culture specific factors such as language and religion that influences a client’s behavior (Zunker, 2012). Moreover, culturally competent counselors are better able to detect their own racist attitudes, beliefs and feelings they direct towards particular minority groups (Corey, 2013). In addition, multicultural counselors refrain from imposing their personal values and expectations on clients from different cultural backgrounds (Corey,…
My reason for contact of this individual was to fulfill the assignment for PYCL 632 Social & Cultural Foundations of Counseling, and to further my understanding and aptitude for analyzing a specific case in multicultural mental health counseling. Alejandra Lopez is a 40-year old single, divorced female from Ponce, Puerto Rico with a Bachelor’s degree in Accounting. She was raised Catholic but is now a self-described recovering Catholic with an agnostic proclivity. We met in 2002 while I was the Director of a Sylvan Learning Center in Tampa, Florida. I decided to interview Alejandra due to the fact that she is a multicultural female of Puerto Rican descent and cultural heritage who relocated from the Island of Puerto Rico to raise her children…
There many efforts that are being done today to close the achievement gap, including raising students’ achievement gap across the board. Multicultural education is an instructive approach that empowers differences and correspondence (attention on human relations, different backgrounds, investigation on social and ethnic, and critical thinking skills). As achievement gaps view the differences between the majority and minority of how students’ learn, it weighs on the variances on systematics in education…
Also discussed is how I would integrate cultural competence with my clients. There was a thought provoking question on last week’s exam, that is still resonating with me. The question prompted me to give thought to my own biases and stereotypes in depth. The question asks how as a minority counselor would I not project my own biases, stereotypes, and prejudices if any, against a White client. I had to stop and give much thought to that question.…
In regards to therapeutic treatment, Ms. Stokes noted that Jonathan was received therapy for behavioral issues for acting out and change in his attitude. She reported referring him to Multicultural Mental Health Center, West Palm Beach, Fl. She reported Jonathan’s attended individual therapy once weekly for six months. Ms. Stokes noted that she mentioned to the psychiatrist that Jonathan was diagnosed with ADHD, by which he was prescribed Adderall. However, she stated that Jonathan stopped his medications in June of 2016 because the family moved to Broward County from Palm Beach.…
Racism is a broad topic, that umbrellas more complex interactions in a given society of race-based worldview with stereotyping, prejudices, and discrimination. Racism when slavery was present had a different effect on the people back then. Black African Americans felt as if the only way to gain their right was to hold their ground and let no one break you. Most of the time it resulted in violence, but coming from the White counterparts being angry at black African Americans standing up for what they believe in. Africans Americans were called criminals, filthy, and disgusting, so many stereotypes and names, when in reality they wanted make a name labeling black for the rest of their lives.…
This annotated bibliography will give you a look into chapter 9 from the Multicultural Education textbook. It will also go in depth of two articles. The first article, African American and White Adolescents' Strategies For Managing Cultural Diversity in Predominantly White High Schools, will show you a questionnaire that was conducted to students who are White and African American. The second article, Discrimination, Ethnic Identity, and Academic Outcomes of Mexican Immigrant Children: The Importance of School Context, focuses on Mexican immigrant students and how they experience discrimination, their academic attitudes, and ethnic identity in schools. Both articles provide their statistics, and results.…
The textbook, Intentional Interviewing and Counseling: Facilitating Client Development in a Multicultural Society (2014) explores core counselling skills and techniques. The authors, Ivey, Ivey, & Zalaquett (2014) assert that counselors help clients to help themselves by using competent and effective counselling skills. When counselors accurately use their basic counseling skills, they aid clients in developing their own abilities to use their human potential in the present and in future. Numerous counseling skills are discussed in the textbook, such as intentional and diagnostic interviewing skills, attending skills, observing and reflecting skills, listening skills, confronting skills, and influencing skills. These skills and techniques are…
Throughout the centuries America has been the place where cultures merged. It is embedded in our history. People from around the world traveled in search of a better life and with them they brought their music, language, religion, art and traditions. Today, the American family is more diverse than ever. Rapid demographic changes are altering the way we shape our education.…
Gender surrounds us daily through our beliefs, actions, and behavior. Gender differences and equality have become a major topic in the area of education. This paper will examine the differences between males and females and what future educators can do to in promoting equal opportunity under the multicultural education concept. Research has shown the biological differences between males and females are based on the X and Y-chromosomes that verify the sex of the child and signify a minute quantity of the total gene pool (Gollnick and Chinn 2013). According to Gollnick and Chinn (2013:111) "Males and females share roughly 99.8% of their genes."…