This involves property owners, local government, and business owners. As an advocate, it is important to cultivate support from high-profile people, people with special skills, and people with good community reputations, to lend credibility to an advocacy plan. My advocacy plan would help the homeless find shelter, medical care, and jobs so they can become more independent. If members of the community or group have different views on how I should proceed, I may need to use meditative skills to bring the people to consensus. My role as a mediator in this situation would be to nurture cooperative partnership, maintain confidentiality, and develop strategies to address any barriers to reduce homelessness.
In our society there are large groups of people living with the difficulties of racism, profound fear, hopelessness and loss. This makes the area of intercultural counselling increasingly important and relevant. Other mainstream counselling approaches do not give us the opportunity to explore the impact that race and identity has on the counselling process. It also provides us with a way of investigating the concerns that we all share regardless of our heritage or background. In our multicultural society we need to learn to live with difference in a constructive way.
Also, because some clients might be traumatized, it is important for the crisis worker to be comfortable in dealing with stressful situations. It is important for the crisis counselor to identify the problems a client presents by asking open ended questions in order to figure out the most information possible on the precipitating event. Questions that begin with “what” or “how” are the most effective in a case. (Kanel, 2006, p. 73) For example, “How may I assist you?” or “What do you believe is the primary problem?” Even though close-ended questions allow the interviewer to gather factual information, they should be aware that they might make the client feel attacked or defensive. (Kanel, 2006, p. 73) A crisis worker should always act in an ethical way.
Patterns need to be considered, because the conditions within a family at times affect behavior development and personality. Understanding a client's past influences often helps uncover details that are insightful during treatment and can assist the clinician in treating the client. As a clinician, you need to establish a sense of how the client views themselves as a person, how they perceive their past, and who he or she would like to become in the future. According to the Adlerian theory, my role as a clinician would be to establish an understanding with the client, assess the client's circumstances, and use modeling to encourage the client in his or her efforts to reach their desired changed behavior. The function of
Political empowerment is the government working to help the community and promoting political participation on specific issues for the community population. (Zastrow & Krist-Ashman, 2010) Macro, mezzo, and micro are three categories that is viewed through social work. These three categories may influence and coincide with each other. The practice of macro systems is the effort to help clients by intervening in a larger system, such as the neighborhood, at a smaller group level, or institution. (Zastrow & Krist-Ashman, 2010) Macro systems empowers clients by involving them in systematic change.
In an inpatient or an outpatient program, the characteristics of a program are often a significant determinant of the outcome of a substance abuser’s treatment. While the effects of these characteristics are not usually evaluated quantitatively, many observers feel that differences in the outcome of treatment can be positively linked to, among other important factors, the quality of the therapeutic staff (Anglin & Hser, 1990, 396). Each stage of counseling interventions should effectively prepare clients to move toward the next stage and work toward preventing regression. Relapse, according to Levin, Culkin, and Perrotto, is inevitable for addicts if they do not have effective “maintenance-stage work” (2001, 271). A counselor needs to be able to correctly evaluate the current stage of a client in order to appropriately intervene.
Multicultural Awareness Nicole Barnes Walden University Multicultural Awareness Mental health counselor, one must consider the socio-cultural context of the client when conceptualizing client cases in choosing interventions (Laureate Inc., 2010). While being aware of the client’s socio-cultural context, it is equally important to be aware of one’s own, with its bias’ and beliefs so that the client conceptualization is not influenced by a lack of self-awareness (Laureate Inc., 2010). In order to effectively gain an understanding of one’s multicultural awareness and cultural competence a mental health counselor should participate in a self assessment. Multicultural self assessments should assist the mental health counselor in gaining and understanding of who they are, what they believe in, and how to separate those personal aspects from the counseling process (Laureate Inc., 2010). After administering a multicultural self assessment provided by Petrone, my hypothesis concerning my level of multicultural awareness and competence was found to be null.
Theory of multicultural counseling and therapy (MCT) Most career counseling and guidance practitioners would readily acknowledge that each client is unique, and that individual differences must be accepted and respected. However, practice - based on theories taught during initial training and subsequently developed into 'action theories' in the field - often reflects the assumption that a particular interviewing approach is transferable across a wide range of clients. Multicultural counseling challenges this view. Sue et al (1996) propose a theory of multicultural counseling and therapy (MCT). This is considered necessary because of the inadequacies of current theories informing current counseling practice.
Therefore, group counseling is a process that has several purposes, which are: a) share specific individual experiences and events, b) realize how these events occurred, c) acknowledge and understand the response of different members, d) examine and identify what happened in group, and e) how to compare group discussions to their personal lives (Glass & Benshoff, 1999). The PARS Model Without proper processing skills, group workers have a greater risk of assigning exercises that do not help their clients recognize what they do in the group can be used in their daily lives. It takes more than engaging in multiple group activities to run a victorious group. There is a functioning model technique called Processing: Activity, Relationships, Self (PARS) that is used by group leaders in processing group undertakings. The PARS model acts as a bridge, guide or road map on how to accurately process group activities.
Evaluating the client and coming up with goals understanding their social supports will help form rapport with the client, show them their strengths and align treatment with their beliefs and values. Although there is research for Mexican American elders more research needs to be conducted to have a broader understanding of how their childhood, and adulthood affects the aging