Multicultural Counseling Vs Community Analysis

The two similarities between mental health services in community strings and correctional settings are that they serve the same purposes. According to the author, “the basic purposes for mental health delivery systems in both correctional and community settings are the same—to empower persons with mental illness or co-occurring disorders to attain their maximum level of crime-free employment, self-care, interpersonal relationships, and participation in the community or prison population. Power (2006) stated this shared goal in the following manner”(Fagan & Ax, 2011, p. 45). They both have the same purpose of helping people, specifically by helping people understand about their mental illnesses. Another similarity is that mental health services …show more content…
47). As seen in even correctional settings, more of an aggression than mental health services. These services still take multiple roles that have a lot of similarities I believe that multicultural counseling is very important in the correctional setting, because a person who is counseling in a jail is going to work with a lot of people with different backgrounds. The author goes more in depth with the definition of multicultural counseling, and I agree with the author. He states: “Multicultural counseling is the understanding that individuals exist and behave in a larger context that includes all of these notions of self. Indeed, cultural identity is fluid and often changes according to social context (Monk, Winslade, & Sinclair, 2008)”.(Fagan & Ax, 2011, p. 126). Another reason that multicultural counseling is very important in correctional settings is described by :“Correctional mental health is practiced in a fast-paced environment and requires specialized training focused on the unique needs of the criminal