Review “Some Guidelines for Serving Multicultural Populations” from Chapter 1 of the text Theory and Practice of Group Counseling.
Choose three of the guidelines in the list.
Here are the 3 guidelines:
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Identify your basic assumptions—especially as they apply to diversity in culture, ethnicity, race, gender, class, religion, and sexual identity—and think about how your assumptions are likely to affect your practice as a group counselor.
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Recognize that all encounters are multicultural.
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Move beyond the perspective of looking within individuals for the sources of their problems, and strive to adopt a self-in-relation perspective. Take into account the environmental and systemic factors that often contribute to an individual’s struggles.
Prepare a one-page reflection on the three guidelines you chose in light of your personal experience and background and your future profession.
(I can add in some personal experience and background but write from the perspective of a caucasion female, gay, social worker, special educatin teacher, with experience working with a diverse student population)