Challenges Associated With Counselling Multicultural Clients

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Author(s): Sindusha Darshini Kanna Dasan (HELP University, Malaysia)
Copyright: 2019
Pages: 22
Source title: Multicultural Counseling Applications for Improved Mental Healthcare Services
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Anasuya Jegathevi Jegathesan (HELP University, Malaysia)and Siti Salina Abdullah (University Malaysia Terengganu, Malaysia)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-6073-9.ch001

Keywords: Medical Information Science Reference / Mental Health & Behavioral Studies / Psychiatry and Mental Health / Social Sciences & Humanities

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The chapter is about different situations that therapists face challenges in and outlines what a therapist can do when faced with these challenging situations. The challenges covered are: challenging the competency of the therapist of color; transferring minority animosity to clients of other cultures; unrealistically viewing the therapist of colour as a super minority therapist; overidentification with the client; encountering clashes in cultural values; encountering clashes in communication and therapeutic styles; multicultural competence in a therapist; therapist of colour needing to prove competence; dealing with expressions of racist attitudes/beliefs/behaviors from clients; receiving and expressing racial animosity; and dealing with the stages of racial and cultural identity of therapists and clients. This chapter is to create awareness in therapist and help build multicultural competent therapist.

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