The Assignment on Multi Cultural Model

Running head: MULTI-CULTURAL MODEL
MULTI-CULTURAL MODEL
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Summary of the Multi-cultural Counseling model
People who require counseling come from different cultures and different backgrounds.
Therefore these issues have made it compulsory for conducting multicultural counseling. In case
of multicultural counseling the councilor is required to carry out counseling through the world of
the client. In order words the counselor is required to consider the values and culture of the client
and provide an unbiased advice to the client. Moreover multi-cultural counseling is a part of
professional counselling. Through multi-culture counselling the counsellor is able to help the
undeserved communities. In fact the need of the multi-cultural counselling becomes more
important in case of diverse workforce (Arthur, 2019). Moreover there is a high demand for
counsellors who have multicultural competency across different nations.
In order to conduct multi-cultural counselling, it becomes necessary to have certain
competencies such as having awareness of the cultural values and biases of oneself, need to have
the awareness of client worldwide and the counsellors are also required to carry out intervention
strategies that are culturally appropriate. Therefore one of the most important competency that a
counsellor is required to have in order to become competent multiculturally includes- their
ability to understand their own cultural values and biases and they also need to identify the limit
for the same. Moreover the counsellors are required to understand the concepts of discrimination,
racism, oppression and also stereotyping (France, Hett & del Carmen Rodriguez 2017).
Therefore it is necessary for the multicultural counsellors to understand the cultural perspectives
of people from different backgrounds. The counsellor should have the competency of
understanding the fact that the way they view the world may be different from the way the
customers view the world. Therefore this requires the counsellors to be aware of their own
emotional reactions to different groups.

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Therefore a counsellor who is multiculturally competent respects the views, beliefs,
values and other practices of the clients (Shen, Ting & Shen, 2017). Therefore the counsellor
should understand the therapy that they are going to provide and the impact of the same on
people with different cultural backgrounds. Therefore the counsellors should be good
communicators both non-verbally and verbally and eliminate any form of bias based on different
cultures of his clients.
Moreover multicultural counsellors maintain good and respectful relationship with the
clients. In order to ensure the same there are ten main factors that needs to be considered and
these factors includes- the religious factors, the economic factors, the sexual factors,
psychological factors, ethnic factors, chronological factors, condition of trauma, family
conditions, unique conditions and locational factors (France, del Carmen Rodríguez & Hett,
2017). That is the counsellor needs to have knowledge and understanding about the spiritual
identity, class background, sexual identity, psychological maturity of the clients and also needs
to consider other similar factors. Therefore the counsellors need to make application of the
RESPECFUL model for the purpose of providing unbiased counselling to his clients. Therefore
it can be said that the multicultural model includes two main parts that is understanding the view
of the world by the clients and understanding their own cultural values and biases.

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References
Arthur, N. (Ed.). (2019). Counselling in cultural contexts: identities and social justice. Springer.
France, M. H., del Carmen Rodríguez, M., & Hett, G. G. (Eds.). (2017). Diversity, Culture and
Counselling: A Canadian Perspective, 2e. Brush Education.
France, M. H., Hett, G. G., & del Carmen Rodriguez, M. (2017). Developing Multicultural
Counselling Skills. Diversity, Culture and Counselling: A Canadian Perspective, 2e, 52.
Shen, Y. J., Ting, S. M., & Shen, H. J. (2017). Enhancing multicultural counselling competencies
and services. International Journal of Services and Standards, 12(1), 1-30.