Multicultural Counselling Process: A Personal Reflection

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Contents
GENOGRAM...............................................................................................................1
INTRODUCTION.........................................................................................................2
DISCUSSION..............................................................................................................2
CONCLUSION............................................................................................................ 4
REFERENCES............................................................................................................4
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INTRODUCTION
Human being is a social animal and has to be within his group in society to spend a
good and comfortable life. Multicultural is the concept that is defined as the mixing of
different cultures and values in a common society (Hays & Erford., 2017). There are
different people addressing different cultures and the diversity due to their belief,
values and cultural differences are usually evident in their thought process and
morals of life and the way they thin, behave and live their life. Multicultural
counselling is concerned with the consoling process where the counsellor gets to
know different culture people and interact with them to understand their lives and
counsel the regarding the current situation of their life. The multicultural counselling
should be devoid of any bias or any discrimination on basis of cultural and value
differences and then only the sessions can be fruitful else the interaction between
the two clients and the counsellor will not result in any positive outcomes (Hays &
Erford., 2017). This assignment is based on discussion of the multicultural
counselling process and practice based on understanding the belief and values of
one’s culture.
DISCUSSION
Human beings evolved through different ages but if the ancestral ages are defined
the communities were building and religion and culture were prepared in order to
promote a group of individual following particular set of values and not getting a lot of
interaction with the individual following different set of principles. This practice was
very much prevalent in the olden ages where the community members use to live in
conserved thoughts of having one community and not getting engaged with others
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with different opinion for their personal safety and longevity. As the human individual
evolved the education and broader thoughts swept in and people began to transfer
from different places and started living in a common society. This evolution led the
human thoughts to develop and go beyond such discrimination of caste, creed, race
or religion (Boer & Fischer., 2013).
I belong to a family dwelling in Andhra pradesh, India. The family background differs
from maternal and paternal sides yet there is some common belief due to cultural
sharing. The qualities a person gains from his or her ancestors are majorly
influencing their character and personality as I belong to a sweet and simple family
with a start-up business in Andhra that was shut down due to crises, the business
was not successful yet my father did not give up and set another business regarding
pharmaceuticals in Bangalore and views me as the heir to expand the business in
future. The family comprises of wide range of relatives and members who are related
by one another and shares some or the other qualities. The values a person gains
from his family are most credential in formation of the attitude and personality
(Pedersen et al., 2015). My family specifically my parents are very sweet and have
always taught me to be able to form a rapport with the individuals and never to pay
any importance to the discriminating factors like caste, creed and race of the other
person. I have been developed a habit of respecting my elders irrespective of the job
they do or the place they live in. Belonging to an Indian culture I have been raised to
respect others religion and also follow my own principles without forcing anyone to
agree to my opinion in any manner.
In a multicultural counselling the most important criteria is the understanding of the
counsellor and the attitude of the client towards the process. A god counselling
session will allow the client to have positive outcomes and counsellor to understand
the client better with knowledge of the culture and thoughts the person may possess.
Difference in opinion can persist but it is the ability of the counsellor to determine the
differences d not overpower and the client’s integrity, rights and dignity is maintained
by not judging him for his values or cultural practices that have influenced his
thoughts. Having lot of relative living in different parts of world it is easy for me to
have an exposure to different cultural beliefs they follow and prepare myself in order
to interact better with all of them.
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My morals and principles regarding following my own belief is firm but I never force
them on others rather I respect the opinion of others with all my senses without
harming or offending anyone and trying to be more responsive while interacting with
other people from different cultures. As our business is in growing stage my father
requires a hand to help him expand the roots and reach the desired pinnacle. Yet my
dreams were different to follow the courses and study abroad and this difference in
opining created some issues within my family. Yet we were able to overcome the
differences and my parents agreed for me to gain higher education and I also had a
new insight regarding their views that I can expand and fulfil (Arpentieva., 2015).
Multicultural counselling is an essential tool that helps various individual to get
prepared for what the life has for them and to modify their attitude towards new
things and situations (Dillon et al., 2016). The understanding between client and the
counsellor is also dependent on the strength and weakness of the client’s cultural
beliefs as in my case I have good understanding of how to behave in multicultural
environment but at the same time I have some language issues that obstructs my
path to success in such communities. Some of my personal values reflect my
attitude towards others that involve my belief that respect is the key element for very
individual’s contentment and it can be gained by morals and how you treat others
and not by the money or power you possess (Gladding., 2012).
As my family has a business I have been taught since I was a child that every person
is equal and have equal rights to speak and put their opinion and we should be able
to analyse and evaluate their opinion and respect it.
CONCLUSION
Multicultural concept has provided some barriers in the living of an individual but
overall is proved to be beneficial in reducing the overall discrimination against the
society based on cultural differences. A multicultural counsellor keeps in his mind
every single aspect of the person’s thoughts and how he lives his life that helps him
identify the issues with the person mental health and also helps him understand the
priorities of the person better to address them in a good manner. Hence it is seen
that the learning that I have received from my family and the ways that my parents
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have inculcated in me helps me to interact with people from different cultures and
also allows me to be competent in my field where I can deal with different cultural
population.
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