What is Liu’s social class worldview model? Describe the goals for the client and five domains of the model.

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What will be an ideal response?

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Liu’s social class worldview model is one of the few models that have counseling interventions designed to get at the issue of social class. Goals include insight regarding the client’s experiences related to classism, the client’s social class worldview, and any economic pressures that the client might be undergoing; counselor empathy regarding the client’s classism experiences; help in identifying the client’s life situations that are linked to classism. The five domains comprising the model include consciousness, attitudes, and salience--individual’s ability to articulate and comprehend the relevance and meaningfulness of social class in his or her environment; referent groups--the three groups to which an individual belongs: the group of origin, the peer/cohort group, and the group to which people aspire; property relationships--materials that individuals value, use to define themselves, and expect as part of their worldview, and use to exclude others; lifestyle--the manner in which people choose to organize their time and resources within a socially classed context to remain congruent with their economic culture; behaviors--learned and socialized, purposeful and instrumental actions that support an individual’s social class worldview.