Do you believe that counselors have a social and professional responsibility to eliminate oppression?
What will be an ideal response?
Answer should include the following: Counseling professionals must challenge the systems that perpetrate and maintain oppression; not afraid to be involved in advocacy to end actions in society that support the existence of oppressive systems. Counselors must consider how cultural contexts and experiences of minority clients differ and are implicated in the onset and continuation of mental health concerns. Counselors have the responsibility not to perpetrate discrimination and oppression by avoiding cultural biases, stop imposing the dominant cultural values, worldviews, and expectations on their minority clients through research, diagnosis, and intervention strategies that are culturally bound. Counselors can play a leading role by operating from the social justice perspective that is consistent with the development of multicultural competence. It is also an ethical responsibility of the counselor’s to contribute to the elimination of oppression based on the ethical standard of ACA Code of Ethics that requires counselors to recognize and avoid historical and social prejudices in the misdiagnosis and pathologizing of minority clients’ behaviors.
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a. Assimilation b. Alternation c. Separation d. Acculturation
According to Reardon, modules of the Florida State curricular career information services (CCIS) include all of the following except
A. providing students with an introduction to the service. B. orienting students to the career decision-making process. C. helping students with their coursework. D. helping students engage in self-assessment.
Why is group counseling harmful for some clients?
What will be an ideal response?
The authors describe four possible interventions when boredom seems prevalent in the group. Which of the following is NOT included?
a. Change the level of engagement to active mode. b. Change the structure of the group. c. Initiate a trust-building activity. d. Provoke some reaction from members. e. State what the leader senses members are feeling.