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Training
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It is recomended that all counselor regardless of their etchnic or racial background receive training in multiculatural counseling and therapy.
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characteristics of the culturally skilled counslero
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Becoming a multiculturally competent mental health practitioner involves three dimension.
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1. deals with the prattioners attitudes and belifes about race, culture, ethnicity, gender, and sexual orientation. developing a a positive view towrd multiculturalism, and understanding how one's values and biases may get int he way of effecrive helping.
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2. A cultuurally competent praticiones is knowledage and understanidng of his or her own worlview, possesses specific knowledge of the diverse groups with wohom he or she works, and has a basic understaidn of sociopolitical influences.
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3. deals with skills, intervention, techniques nad stategies necessary in serving diverse cients groups.
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Mental health seveces can be delivered best if practitiones accuraely begin with the assumption that their clients aare basically psychologically healthy and are experiencing normal developmental struggles.
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The first step in the process of acquiring multicultural cousneling skills should be that students become involved in a self exploratory clas to help identify their cultural and ethnic blind spots.and a second course dealing exclusively with multicultural issues and minority group.
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Multicultural perspective shoul be integrated throughgout the curriculum.
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Training: Classes, teachers that are well trained and experienced in multicultural counseling, interships that offer experiences in a multicultural settings, interactions with diverse groups of people who face a myriad of problems.. Well selected intership experiences, trainees will not only expand theri own consciosunes but will also increase their knowledge of diverse groups and will have a biasis for acquiring intervention skills. Reading and traveling, films and videtapes, seminars,workshops that focus on ulticultural issues int eh helping profession. Such range of experiences will snsitize students to a broad range of life experiences and cultural values will contribute to their effeciveness as cousnlors.
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While learning the trainnee should be paitient and accept limitiations and expand your vision of how your culture continues to influence the person you are today. Work on becoming a more effective person and cousnelor and remember that this is an ongoing process.
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