Examples Of Multicultural Counseling

The Counseling Experience
Cognitive behavior therapy helps to change the way that people think or behave. This paper will discuss this approach applied through multicultural lenses. It will discuss a therapy session and how the therapist applied this approach and how effective it was. It will then explain how the therapist applied the AMCD multicultural counseling competencies.
Multicultural Counseling Competencies Multicultural and cognitive-behavioral approaches both place importance on tailoring the therapy to the particular situation (Hays,1995). The counselor recommended therapy with his wife, but he continued to focus on therapy with Louis. He believed that they should go to another therapist because he already started to build a rapport with Louis. He understood

When the counselor explained that he would not counsel the couple but recommend them for couples counseling. I then understood the he did not want to have any biases toward the client’s wife. In the dialogue with the two counselors it went a little deeper. The client was also a little apprehensive about couples counseling with his wife. She did not even know he was there to see a therapist.
Another insight that I gained occurred when he explained the term neo-machista. In listening to the dialogue the counselor figured out he was suppressing his culture. This seems to be one of the moments where the counselor seemed to be getting at the root of the problem. I then realized that it was because he had some knowledge about the culture.
Lastly, when the therapist realized t. I that the client was hurt because the wife did not seem to be willing to be sensitive to his culture. I saw that it may have been part of the reason that he suppressed it. The therapist discussed that it was painful and it hurt his feelings and the client never informed his wife.

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