A brief description of the strengths and limitations of the AMCD Multicultural Counseling Competencies.
Multicultural counseling competence is defined as the counselor’s acquisition of awareness, knowledge, and skills needed to function effectively in a pluralistic democratic society (ability to communicate, interact, negotiate, and intervene on behalf of clients from diverse backgrounds); on organizational/societal level, it is defined as advocating effectively to develop new theories, practices, policies, and organizational structures that are more responsive to all group (Sue & Sue, 2016).
However, AMCD Multicultural Counseling Competencies has some strengths and some limitations. One of the strengths of the AMCD Section-IA2 states that …show more content…
This is a limitation to consider because when counseling other especially people of other cultures, backgrounds, race, ethnic, beliefs or life style we want to make sure that we are getting the communication across to them in a way of understanding. In a way they we are impacting them positively where we don’t allow our social impact or styles of communication offended others. Therefore, making sure that both the counselor and the client have an understanding of what is being communicated is important because we do not want the communication line to brake nor clash. Also, being aware of other social impact has its limits because of the continuously changes in the world. Furthermore, because social impact is so wide-ranging it would depending on the client and who they are, where they are coming from, because they might define it differently. For that reason, counselors should want to make sure they have a continuously understating the cultural social impact and ways to communicate effectively. This is because counselors should want to be culturally aware of the growing …show more content…
Two recommendations that I would enhance to the current guidelines would be for the counselor to become more aware of the many cultures and the cultures within cultures. I would also, enhances the way counselors take classes and how they received training. This is because education is something that is continually in counseling however, they world is changing every day and alone with it the points of views that impact the way people see
Multicultural counseling competence is defined as the counselor’s acquisition of awareness, knowledge, and skills needed to function effectively in a pluralistic democratic society (ability to communicate, interact, negotiate, and intervene on behalf of clients from diverse backgrounds); on organizational/societal level, it is defined as advocating effectively to develop new theories, practices, policies, and organizational structures that are more responsive to all group (Sue & Sue, 2016).
However, AMCD Multicultural Counseling Competencies has some strengths and some limitations. One of the strengths of the AMCD Section-IA2 states that …show more content…
This is a limitation to consider because when counseling other especially people of other cultures, backgrounds, race, ethnic, beliefs or life style we want to make sure that we are getting the communication across to them in a way of understanding. In a way they we are impacting them positively where we don’t allow our social impact or styles of communication offended others. Therefore, making sure that both the counselor and the client have an understanding of what is being communicated is important because we do not want the communication line to brake nor clash. Also, being aware of other social impact has its limits because of the continuously changes in the world. Furthermore, because social impact is so wide-ranging it would depending on the client and who they are, where they are coming from, because they might define it differently. For that reason, counselors should want to make sure they have a continuously understating the cultural social impact and ways to communicate effectively. This is because counselors should want to be culturally aware of the growing …show more content…
Two recommendations that I would enhance to the current guidelines would be for the counselor to become more aware of the many cultures and the cultures within cultures. I would also, enhances the way counselors take classes and how they received training. This is because education is something that is continually in counseling however, they world is changing every day and alone with it the points of views that impact the way people see