The cultural milieu of counseling

✍ Scribed by Mahmoud A. Saleh

• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 1989
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 528 KB
• Volume: 12
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0165-0653
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00123451

✦ Synopsis

This article explores the mono-cu!tural milieu of counseling. There are four primary contributors to the cultural domination of counseling by the Western culture. They are as follows:

(1) the deep historical and philosophical roots of counseling in Western culture; (2) the dominant the, ones, practices and approaches of counseling make the assumption that counseling will take place within a Western culture; (3) the bulk of research and literature pertaining to counseling concena'ates on counseling within the West; (4) the emulation by non-Western nations of Western models of counseling. The concept of cultural dissonance is given to help in the understanding of the relation of culture to a counseling relationship at a given time between counselor and client.