Cultural Intersection of Asian Indian Ethnicity and Presenting Problem: Adapting Multicultural Competence for Clinical Accessibility
✍ Scribed by Roy A. Bean; Gayatri Titus
- Publisher
- American Counseling Association
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 131 KB
- Volume
- 37
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0883-8534
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✦ Synopsis
a more accessible approach to using multicultural counseling competence is presented to bridge the researcher-practitioner gap and increase the likelihood of quality clinical services. the focus of the approach is on counselor awareness, knowledge, and skills as they relate to the most important contextualing factors: ethnic culture and the culture of the presenting problem.
se presenta una aproximación más accesible al uso de la competencia multicultural en consejería para zanjar la brecha entre investigadores y profesionales clínicos y también para incrementar las probabilidad de que los servicios clínicos sean de calidad. el enfoque de la aproximación es hacia la conciencia, conocimientos y habilidades del consejero en relación a los factores contextuales más importantes: la cultura étnica y la cultura del problema inicial.
O ne of the greatest challenges for mental health counselors in this century is to more effectively serve the mental health needs of individuals and families who represent diverse ethnic or cultural backgrounds. The need to meet this challenge is a dramatic one, as evidenced by a lower level of accessibility to mental health care and a poorer quality of clinical services for ethnically diverse groups in the United States and other industrialized countries (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2001;Williams, Turpin, & Hardy, 2006). A call to correct this problem has been made numerous times in the professional literature, and many researchers and practitioners have responded accordingly (e.g., Muir, Schwartz, & Szapocznik, 2004). Nevertheless, the overwhelming need for information and guidance in working with ethnically diverse clients is, for the most part, accompanied by an undersupply of clear, culturally relevant treatment recommendations. In an attempt to correct this shortcoming, practitioners and researchers are encouraged to focus on a target that is simultaneously culturally and clinically relevant, the intersection of the client's ethnic culture and the culture of the presenting problem.
Culture includes "common and shared values, customs, habits, and rituals; systems of labeling, explanation, and evaluation; social rules of behavior; perceptions regarding human nature, natural phenomena, interpersonal relationships." (Roysircar, 2003, p. 170). Various groups may demonstrate a