Monday, October 4, 2010

Multicultural Counseling

A counselor should consider those several cultures, multiculturalism has been defined as the forth force in psychology, one which complements the psychodynamic, behavioral and humanistic explanations of human behavior.

We have four dimensions of cultures, the power distance, uncertainty avoidance, individualism, masculinity and femininity. A counselor must go with different process of counseling. This includes self awareness, awareness of ones own culture, awareness of racism, sexism and poverty, awareness of individual differences, awareness of other cultures, awareness of diversity, lastly is the skills and techniques on how will you apply those.

As regards with this matters, multicultural awareness continuum must go through which a counselor recognize those culturally different clients, like for example when it comes on sexism, a person is being discriminat0ry abuse towards members of opposite sex, so the counselor must develop several techniques and skills for them to become more competent

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