Question

27. Describe at least three methods used to provide culturally sensitive counseling and psychotherapy to ethnic minorities.

Answer 1

1. Understanding social and historical contexts: When counselors and therapists work with individuals from diverse cultural backgrounds, they should develop awareness about key historical events and social movements that may have influenced attitudes, values and behaviors of groups of people.
2. Recognizing the dynamics of the cross cultural zone: Culturally competent counseling and psychotherapy should involve an examination nature of the helping relationship when there are significant cultural differences between helper and
helpee. These differences have been conceptualized as the cross-cultural zone.
3. Self-awareness: Counselors and therapists should be sensitive to their own inherent racial or cultural identity and privilege, ethnocentrism, prejudice, and stereotypes when interacting with diverse populations.