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Cultural Identity Development

The document discusses the significance of cultural self-evaluation and understanding clients' perceptions within the framework of Multicultural and Social Justice Counseling Competencies. It emphasizes the importance of self-awareness for counselors to avoid biases and enhance empathy, while also addressing the challenges of advocacy in promoting social justice. Additionally, it highlights the role of grace and compassion from a religious perspective to enrich multicultural counseling practices.

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Cultural Identity Development

The document discusses the significance of cultural self-evaluation and understanding clients' perceptions within the framework of Multicultural and Social Justice Counseling Competencies. It emphasizes the importance of self-awareness for counselors to avoid biases and enhance empathy, while also addressing the challenges of advocacy in promoting social justice. Additionally, it highlights the role of grace and compassion from a religious perspective to enrich multicultural counseling practices.

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Cultural Identity Development

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Cultural Identity Development

When examining the "Multicultural and Social Justice Counseling Competencies," two

competencies stand out as particularly significant: Article 2: Cultural Self-Evaluation:

Consciousness of One’s Cultural Standards and Judiciousness and Perception of the Client’s

Reality.

Cultural self-efficacy is central to any model of multicultural sensitivity since simply

being mindful of one’s own values and prejudices is a first step toward understanding another

culture. It is critical for a counselor to appreciate his or her own self-organized social bias to

avoid it affecting the professional practice (Sue et al., 2016). These are important factors of self-

awareness, which entails the counselor’s receptiveness, as well as the ability to enter the client’s

emotional and psychological reality and respond appropriately: in other words, counseling skills

demand empathy.

Exploring the client’s perceptual model is as crucial since this empowers the counselor to

understand and respect the cultural assumptions of the clients. This competency is quite helpful

in establishing the relationship and understanding since the clients are respected (Ratts, et al.,

2016). To that extend, the paper concludes that by accepting the different perception on culture,

the counselor is in a foggy to address the ethnic and cultural demands of their clients; bettering

the therapeutic provisions.

There is one competency, Advocacy, which may be easier said than done in terms of

acquiring. Advocacy means that a counselor is active outside of counseling, practicing social
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justice and fighting for the socially injustice systems (Ratts et al., 2016). This competency can

thus pose some challenges given the systemic features combined with conflict of interest with

personal beliefs or confrontation with institutional norms.

Given a religious worldview, there is another aspect that can enrich multicultural counseling,

known as Grace and Compassion. Rooted in Christian teachings, grace involves unconditional

love and forgiveness, while compassion emphasizes empathy and understanding (Colossians

3:12). Integrating these principles make the counselor choose to meet the client with better

understanding and no judgment allowing for healing.

In conclusion it can be suggested that application of these competencies and principles

collectively will help to improve multicultural counseling.


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References

Ratts, M. J., Singh, A. A., Nassar-McMillan, S., Butler, S. K., & McCullough, J. R. (2016).

Multicultural and Social Justice Counseling Competencies: Guidelines for the Counseling

Profession. Journal of Multicultural Counseling and Development, 44(1), 28-48.

Sue, D. W., Arredondo, P., & McDavis, R. J. (2016). Multicultural Counseling Competencies and

Standards: A Call to the Profession. Journal of Counseling & Development, 70(4), 477-

486.

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