Diverse Populations
Memo
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Subject: Counselling Ethnic Minorities
Counsellors deal with clients from diverse backgrounds, especially in terms of culture, age, gender, ability, sexual orientation, and religious background. Whereas the same counselling approach may be applied to all clients, adaptation is often important (Kottler & Sheppard, 2015). The counsellor must consider the unique background of every client and undertake the necessary modifications to ensure a personalised or culturally-appropriate intervention. Ethnic minorities comprise an especially unique group as far as counselling is concerned. This memo explains how to work with clients from this population. The memo specifically provides and justifies a plan for counselling a client from ethnic minority groups, considers stereotypes and biases that may be encountered in working with the client, and identifies strategies for ensuring cultural sensitivity when working with the client.
Working with clients from ethnic minority populations requires five important things. First, the counsellor must be aware of their own cultural identity (Kottler & Sheppard, 2015). Virtually everyone has a cultural identity – an identity that informs their values, beliefs, and worldviews. Understanding one’s cultural identity helps the counsellor acknowledge how their culture differs from others. The second step...
References
Kottler, J., & Sheppard, D. (2015). Introduction to counselling: Voices from the field. 8th ed. Boston: Cengage Learning.
Sue, D., & Sue, D. (2012). Counselling the culturally diverse: Theory and practice. 6th ed. Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons.
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