Implications For Clinical Practice

IMPLICATIONS FOR CLINICAL PRACTICE

Chapter 1. The Multicultural Journey to cultural competence: personal narratives
1. Listen and be open to the stories of those most disempowered in thissociety.
2. Understanding groups different from you requires more than book learning. Supplement your readings with experiential reality.
3. Don´t be afraid to explore yourself as aracial/cultural being affected by the system.
Chapter 2. The superordinate Nature of Multicultural counseling and therapy
1. Understand the terms “sociodemographic” and “diverse backgrounds” in the MCTdefinition to be inclusive and encompass race, culture, gender, religious affiliation, sexual orientation, elderly, women, disability, and so on.
2. Realize that you are a product of culturalconditioning and that you are not immune from inheriting biases associated with culturally diverse groups in our society.
3. When working with different cultural groups, attempt to identify culture-specificand culture-universal domains of helping. See what others might cultures might understand by normal.
Chapter. 4. Sociopolitical implications of oppression
1. In working with diverse clients, itis important to distinguish between behaviors indicative of a true mental disorder and those that result from oppression and survival.
2. Don´t personalize the suspicions a client may have of yourmotive. Don´t be defensive.
3. Monitor your own reactions and question your beliefs.
Chapter 5. Racial, Gender, and Sexual Orientation Microaggressions
1. Be aware that racial, gender, andsexual orientation microaggressions are a constant realtiy in the lives of culturally diverse groups.
2. Be aware that everyone has, and continues to engage in, unintentional microaggressions. Makethe invisible, visible.
3. Don´t invalidate the experiential reality of culturally diverse groups.
4. Don´t get defensive if your culturally diverse client implies that you have engaged in...