MULTICULTURAL PERSPECTIVES ON COUNSELLING AND CAREER CHOICE
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ABSTRACT. One of the tasks confronting professional counsellors is understanding the complex role of culture in the counselling relationship. Both counsellor and client operate from a set of values, beliefs, and behaviors that affects the helping relationship. The defmition of cultural diversity is not limited to race, ethnicity or nationality. To meet the needs of culturally diverse clients, counselling assessment and determination of career services must be understood in a context which presupposes self-awareness, knowledge of others, acceptance, adaptation of helping and treatment models, and the appreciation of difference. RÉSUMÉ. Les conseillers professionnels sont confrontés à la nécessité de comprendre le rôle complexe de la culture dans la relation qu'ils établissent avec leurs clients. Conseillers et clients ont chacun leurs propres valeurs, croyances et comportements qui influent sur la relation d'aide. La définition de la diversité culturelle ne se limite pas a la race, à l'ethnicité ou à la nationalité. Pour répondre aux besoins des clients d'origines culturelles diverses, l'évaluation et l'identification des services d'orientation professionnelle doivent être appréhendées dans un contexte qui présuppose la connaissance de soi, la connaissance des autres, l'acceptation, l'adaptation des modèles d'aide et de traitement et l'aptitude à reconnaître la différence.Downloads
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1995-04-01
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McDowell, E. A., & Eskedal, G. A. (1995). MULTICULTURAL PERSPECTIVES ON COUNSELLING AND CAREER CHOICE. McGill Journal of Education / Revue Des Sciences De l’éducation De McGill, 30(002). Retrieved from https://mje.mcgill.ca/article/view/8238
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