Title: Multicultural counseling - Wikipedia
Headings: Multicultural counseling
Multicultural counseling
Contents
History
Why people saw a need for multicultural counseling
Multicultural counselor competencies
Ways of assessing those competencies
Multicultural Therapy In Action
Four innovative programs
Recommendations for future research on multicultural counseling
References

Content: Being a minority can be an impediment to counseling. The belief in ‘rugged individualism’ and the implications that the person is responsible for his or her own lot in life hinders a more realistic understanding of the influence of culture. Multicultural counselor competencies
In 1982, Sue published a paper that described how traditional counseling approaches were irrelevant to the minorities, and that there needs to be a push for new ways of counseling that are more appropriate to the culturally different. He realized that minority experiences have been analyzed from a Eurocentric point of view, and that the field needed universal competencies that all multicultural counselors should have, which are certain beliefs/attitudes, knowledge, and skills. Beliefs/attitudes: Counselors are culturally aware, sensitive to their own ethnicity and value other cultures. They're aware of their own biases and are comfortable with their differences from their client. Every counselor has their own implicit biases, even if they have high self-reported multicultural competencies. Knowledges: Counselors should have a thorough understanding of the sociopolitical system, especially of how it treats minorities.