Client who has strong religious belief from you…what would be some of the most important elements to be considered during the initial assessment, and why.
The client religious belief should take into consideration, but it should not affect my ability to provide any treatment to the client. As a rule, I should not allow client religion to be conflicted with mine since it’s them that I am solely healing. Perhaps it might sound somewhat condescending, but integrating religion does not mean I should impose my own values on clients. In contrast, I should be prepared to discuss and address clients’ beliefs only if they are adamantly against mixing religion or spirituality with treatment. Example, once there was a middle Eastern patient admitted to …show more content…
How to use multicultural counseling as a multidimensional model
Multicultural counseling (MC) help me recognize that clients are different, not only by the nature of their illness but by their cultural makeup. MC allows me to identify clearly my own worldview and personal beliefs about clients who are different than I am. If I can openly acknowledge the differences and respect the client’s belief systems, I can easily build rapport with cross culture clients where they can express a willingness to change and growth.
If MC techniques applies appropriately to multidimensional model (MM), it may help me as a counselor to process and understand the modalities and define objective consistently with life experiences and cultural values of my clients. Ensuing, MC and MM able me to recognize my clients’ identities that may include their individuality, group, universal dimensions, healing process during the assessment and throughout the treatment stages. In another sense, both models help to highlight the client’s individuality that determines in the ways which several factors (i.e., their ethnic background, sexuality, religious economic class, family status, etc.) that undeniably affect the client uniqueness or different from the …show more content…
Nonetheless, since Dr. Sue illuminate the case of the Hmong soldier, my answer can only base within the text. First and foremost is to acknowledge that not every client can afford Western medicine, and since indigenous treatment is not in the DSM manual or any insurance code provided, sometimes counselor hands are tied. Second, any non-Western practices should consider equally complex and important. We must take into account that indigenous practice is unique, respected so that we may learn more from it—allow it to emerge and
The client religious belief should take into consideration, but it should not affect my ability to provide any treatment to the client. As a rule, I should not allow client religion to be conflicted with mine since it’s them that I am solely healing. Perhaps it might sound somewhat condescending, but integrating religion does not mean I should impose my own values on clients. In contrast, I should be prepared to discuss and address clients’ beliefs only if they are adamantly against mixing religion or spirituality with treatment. Example, once there was a middle Eastern patient admitted to …show more content…
How to use multicultural counseling as a multidimensional model
Multicultural counseling (MC) help me recognize that clients are different, not only by the nature of their illness but by their cultural makeup. MC allows me to identify clearly my own worldview and personal beliefs about clients who are different than I am. If I can openly acknowledge the differences and respect the client’s belief systems, I can easily build rapport with cross culture clients where they can express a willingness to change and growth.
If MC techniques applies appropriately to multidimensional model (MM), it may help me as a counselor to process and understand the modalities and define objective consistently with life experiences and cultural values of my clients. Ensuing, MC and MM able me to recognize my clients’ identities that may include their individuality, group, universal dimensions, healing process during the assessment and throughout the treatment stages. In another sense, both models help to highlight the client’s individuality that determines in the ways which several factors (i.e., their ethnic background, sexuality, religious economic class, family status, etc.) that undeniably affect the client uniqueness or different from the …show more content…
Nonetheless, since Dr. Sue illuminate the case of the Hmong soldier, my answer can only base within the text. First and foremost is to acknowledge that not every client can afford Western medicine, and since indigenous treatment is not in the DSM manual or any insurance code provided, sometimes counselor hands are tied. Second, any non-Western practices should consider equally complex and important. We must take into account that indigenous practice is unique, respected so that we may learn more from it—allow it to emerge and