Counselors Cultural World View Culture influences us everyday and most of the time we do not even realize it. I know that before I left home and moved to another state that I never saw culture as a thing. I grew up with a family who took me birthday presents, bought me homecoming mums, and gifts on valentine’s day to school. I have been continuing the tradition with my kids, but when I left Texas and moved to Georgia and I took my daughter a birthday gift to school the office staff looked at me like I was crazy. They had never had a parent drop off a gift for a child on their birthday or a valentine’s day. I realized that here it was not the norm to do this, and I have found that the African American culture is very different from Hispanics.
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As a counselor I will be giving assessments to get more information about my client and if I have biases it will change the way I give the assessments. The way we ask a question can influence the answer we are given back. If you ask a question with an attitude or a sarcastic undertone your will most likely get a sarcastic answer back. You would think that “Obtaining information is often conceptualized as a fairly straightforward process, but this conceptualization is based on the assumption that the client will respond according to the dominate cultural expectations by providing brief, clearly articulated answers that directly respond to each question in sequential order” (Hays, 2016, pg 131.) Another cultural difference I have noticed about African Americans is the way they speak even in the classrooms it is not proper sentences. Even the teachers don’t speak properly for example they say “axe instead of ask” so if a counselor is expecting clearly articulated answers they are going to be out of luck because even educated African Americans do not speak eloquently. Every culture has their own way of speaking, and unfortunately you can usually tell the education levels of the people in the culture, and if your expecting everyone to talk as if they are educated your going to have a very
As a counselor I will be giving assessments to get more information about my client and if I have biases it will change the way I give the assessments. The way we ask a question can influence the answer we are given back. If you ask a question with an attitude or a sarcastic undertone your will most likely get a sarcastic answer back. You would think that “Obtaining information is often conceptualized as a fairly straightforward process, but this conceptualization is based on the assumption that the client will respond according to the dominate cultural expectations by providing brief, clearly articulated answers that directly respond to each question in sequential order” (Hays, 2016, pg 131.) Another cultural difference I have noticed about African Americans is the way they speak even in the classrooms it is not proper sentences. Even the teachers don’t speak properly for example they say “axe instead of ask” so if a counselor is expecting clearly articulated answers they are going to be out of luck because even educated African Americans do not speak eloquently. Every culture has their own way of speaking, and unfortunately you can usually tell the education levels of the people in the culture, and if your expecting everyone to talk as if they are educated your going to have a very