Counselor Competencies

Question 1

What is cross cultural counseling?

Answer 1

two or more participants are culturally different

Question 2

What is multicultural addiction counseling?

Answer 2

recognizing that client identify includes the individual, group and universal dimensions.

Question 3

What are the three competencies of multicultural counseling?

Answer 3

awareness
knowledge
skills

Question 4

What is awareness

Answer 4

being aware of your own heritage, values and bias. Aware of your own racist, sexist, heterosexist attitudes beliefs and feelings and how those can affect clients.

Question 5

What is knowledge

Answer 5

Knowing the history of cultural groups, different practices and worldviews, different sociopolitical system and how it marginalizes various groups. Institutional barriers.

Question 6

What are skills

Answer 6

Ability to challenge ones own cultural beliefs and assumptions. ability to engage in cross cultural interactions. flexible and tolerant. verbal and nonverbal communication approaches. Advocacy of marginalized individuals and groups.

Question 7

What is cultural humility

Answer 7

A way of being instead of doing. other oriented.