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Culturally Appropriate Assessment
The chapter provides comprehensive assessment techniques in relation to race, gender, sexual orientation, class, disability/impairment, age, religion, language, region, and multiple identities and their inters...
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Introduction: Still Partially Visible
The chapter discusses a few more identities that have been added since 2009. But adding more identities without explanation of how these identities affect existing identities does not contribute to providers’ ...
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Assessment of a Provider’s Values, Beliefs, and Biases
Effective counseling or psychotherapy is based on a provider’s ability to know the client’s worldview and his experienced life. A precursor to knowing the client’s worldview is the provider’s ability to know h...
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Sexism
The chapter introduces the social construction theory of gender by defining differences between sex and gender, sex roles and gender roles, and sexual discrimination and sexism.
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Heterosexism
The difference among sexual orientation, homophobia, and heterosexism is described. The chapter discusses underlying factors for minimal success in transforming heterosexism despite substantial progress in fed...
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Disablism/Ableism
It has been 25 years since the Americans with Disabilities Act was implemented. However, discrimination and prejudice against individuals with impairment/disability have continued. The chapter explores factors...
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Other Isms Due to Age, Language, Religion, and Region
Identities related to age, language (ESL), religion, and region are explored in order to demonstrate how to see the whole person who is complex with multiple identities that are interwoven, interdependent, and...
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Identity Construction and Multiple Identities
The chapter begins with exploring Erikson’s conception of personal and social identity development and how social identity has expanded to include cultural identity as a result of sociocultural and political c...
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Culturally Appropriate Treatment/Healing
The previous chapters were step**-stones to this chapter. This chapter is how to walk the talk of multicultural counseling competencies and see the client from his worldview. It advocates culturally appropri...
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Intrapersonal Communication (Inner Dialogue or Inner Speech)
The chapter discusses the mechanisms involved in learning values, beliefs, and biases and their with an individual’s thinking styles to form intrapersonal communication (inner dialogue, inner speech, or self...