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IMPLICATIONS FOR CLINICAL PRACTICE
Оглавление1 Become cognizant of the generic characteristics of counseling and psychotherapy: culture‐bound values, class‐bound values, and linguistic factors.
2 Learn to stop and consider how your conventional therapeutic training, with its deeply embedded European American cultural assumptions, can lead you to misinterpret the views, values, and behaviors of clients of diverse racial, ethnic, and social class backgrounds.
3 Realize that the problems and concerns of many clients of color are related to systemic and external forces rather than to internal psychological problems (Chavez, Fernandez, Hipolito‐Delgado, & Rivera, 2016).
4 Know that our nation's increasing diversity means that psychotherapists must broader their cultural conceptions of the family with the understanding that one is not superior to another.
5 Realize that no family can be understood apart from the cultural, social, and political dimensions of their functioning. The traditional definition of the nuclear family as consisting of two heterosexual parents in a long‐term marriage, raising their biological children, and having the father as primary wage earner refers to a statistical minority of people.
6 Know that the United States is increasingly becoming a multilingual nation and that the linguistic demands of clinical work may place some populations at a disadvantage.
7 Consider the need to provide community counseling services that reach out to diverse cultural and social class communities.
8 Learning about cultural characteristics is important, and so is the need not to overgeneralize or stereotype. Familiarizing ourselves with general and/or traditional group characteristics is different from rigidly applying preconceived notions.
Microtraining Series Video: Overcoming Barriers to Effective Multicultural Counseling and Therapy
