Examples Of Multicultural Awareness

Journal: Multicultural Awareness This paper will introduce and define the need for Multicultural awareness as a clinical mental health counselor. It will further explore examples of various topics in Multicultural counseling such as: Racial and ethnic diversity, gender, social economic status. As a result of this research, in Multicultural awareness, the self-assessment depicted the identity of myself. It allowed me to realize what and who I was as “other.” In realizing who I was as “other”, I saw my own self-identity. Therefore, this assessment made me realize how the need to develop a plan to correct areas of acceptance in change, stereotyping, and assuming may interfere as a mental health counselor if not corrected.

Multicultural Self-Assessment

I am determined to understand all aspects, related to the emotional well-being and developing skills in multicultural counseling regardless of personal beliefs. I am more than confident, my personal life experiences, and work history as a clinician will allow me to be loyal and devoted to all and any culture. Therefore, my love and desire to listen carefully, and respond in a genuine matter, will allow the diversity in culture greater in growth and human development regardless of social class, gender, sexual orientation, religion, and cultural

Nevertheless, the ability to adapt to the demographics changes in society, and the societal changes and challenges that develop along the way. The importance of understanding my own values, my client’s values and beliefs, and the ability to become flexible in cultural differences, would contribute to this factor. In addition, it is important as a counselor become involved in social advocacy through the American Counseling Association(ACA) (Hays & Gray 2014, p 242-43). The framework of this advocacy would give me proper guidelines and tools related to multicultural counseling (Hays & Gray 2014, p