Week 3 - Chapter 1 S. Butler Flashcards
How is counseling defined?
A professional relationship that empowers diverse individuals, families, and groups to accomplish mental health, wellness, education, and career goals.
All counseling is to some extent BLANK because BLANK is within each person
multicultural; culture
What is culture?
A personal orientation towards each decision, behavior, and action in our lives.
Counselors must consider what in order to interpret their behavior accurately and to provide effective and competent treatment?
A client’s cultural context
When is cultural competency achieved?
When counselors understand the role that culture plays within a counseling relationship, appreciate and have a thirst to learn and immerse themselves into diverse environments, and have the wherewithal to genuinely connect with the cultural worldview of others.
Why were the Multicultural Counseling Competencies (MCC) developed?
To provide guidance and a culturally attuned perspective to mental health practitioners.
What is a consequence of having power and privilege?
Citizens are often governed by culturally encapsulated behaviors and/or ethnocentric worldviews.
What is cultural encapsulation?
The tendency to operate from a monocultural worldview and to dismiss variations in how people from differing cultures view the world.
What is ethnocentrism?
A sense of ethnic group self-importance and self-centeredness, where one’s ethnic group is central, and all other ethnic groups fail in comparison.
What is the fifth force in counseling?
Social justice
What is the fourth force in counseling?
Multiculturalism
What are the five forces of counseling?
Psychoanalytical, existential-humanistic, cognitive-behavioral, multiculturalism, social justice
What are the 4 critical principles that social justice-minded counselors espouse?
- Equity
- Access
- Participation
- Harmony
What does equity refer to?
The fair distribution and access of resources, services, power, information, rights, and responsibilities to all members of society.
What is access the key to?
A socially just world because it allows for self-determination and healthy human development.
When does harmony occur?
When the best possible outcomes for the entire community are realized.
When is participation successful?
When every person has the right to control their personal narratives and make the decisions that impact their lives.
What four developmental domains does the MSJCC outline?
- Counselor self-awareness
- Client worldview
- Counseling relationship
- Counseling and advocacy
Interwoven into the first 3 developmental domains are which four aspirational competencies?
- Attitudes and beliefs
- Knowledge
- Skills
- Action
What lays the foundation for meaningful interactions and understanding value differences with clients?
A counselor’s consciousness and ability to acknowledge and articulate their biases, worldviews, and experiences.
What allows a counselor to honor and respect their clients’ worldview?
Deep self-reflection and increased self-awareness
What is the most important pillar of counseling?
The counseling relationship.
The counselor’s genuine interest in the lived experiences of their clients will build a foundation for the counseling relationship.
What are attitudes and beliefs?
Involve counselors acknowledging their own identity and how they are similar or dissimilar to their clients, recognizing the influences of social status on the counseling relationship.
Helping the counselor recognize biases, value systems, and worldviews, broadening their curiosity to learn.
What is knowledge?
Involves understanding the impact of systemic barriers, stereotypes, and biases related to counselor and client privileged or marginalized statuses and accurately integrating salient multicultural theories and interventions.
Finding effective means of communicating with clients.