Assignment

Part 1

o What specific Multicultural counseling competencies will facilitate additional trust between Riza and Steve?

1. How did Steve's initial assumptions and personal beliefs affect his work with this client? What do you think about his decision to dwell on his own personal experiences and how they may have influenced his relationship with Riza?

2. What specific strategies could Steve use to under- stand Riza better from her own perspective during subsequent sessions?

3. What might be some effective strategies that Steve could use to address Riza's social with- drawal, which seems to be associated with judg- mental/prejudicial social encounters she has experienced?

4. What specific multicultural counseling compe- tencies will facilitate additional trust between Riza and Steve?

5. Ethnic and racial identity and acculturative status are often noted as major factors in a client's response to counseling, but research indicates wide variability in how those variables relate with well-being and experiences in counseling. Discuss how those two constructs may affect a counselor's work with Riza in light of the meta-analytic findings presented in this chapter

Part 2

1. What is the culturally relevant history a therapist needs to understand when working with a client such as Donna?

2. What are some of the culturally relevant tech- niques a counselor can use when working with Native clients who have been abused by people in positions of power, such as priests?

3. How can a therapist connect a Native client back to his or her culture and its various institutions and practices?

4. How might Donna's therapist help her to recon- nect with her family in a manner that promotes wellness for everyone?

5. How might Donna's therapist help her to reconnect with her family in a manner that promotes wellness for everyone?

Part 3

1. What are some of the reactions to traumatic stress seen in the community described above?

2. How did culture play a role in the crisis thatoccurred in this community?

3. What are some of the considerations for "outsid- ers" entering a community that has been affected by a disaster?

4. Was the community described above resilient?

5. How do the IASC guidelines apply in this setting? How do they serve to protect a community during a crisis response?

Part 4

1. How might you facilitate an initial counseling session with this young woman?

2. How does this young woman's situation illustrate tensions in the acculturation process?

3. In the contextual domain, what elements of the broader social setting and the specific school set- ting do you think are influencing the situation?

4. In the relational domain, how would you identify who should be part of the counseling process? Should friends, family members, or others be involved? Who should make the decisions regard- ing whom to include or exclude, and how will these choices affect the sessions?

5. In the individual domain, what identities, per- sonality attributes, and personal characteristics are pertinent to the situation?

6. How does this situation illustrate the interac- tions among domains within the ecology of acculturation?

7. How would you design an intervention for this young woman that takes into account the influ- ences from all ecological domain?

Part 5

1. What are some of the racial and cultural dynamics that Alice may be experiencing in the group?

2. Why do you think Alice has been pulled into this particular role?

3. What are some of the racial and cultural dynamics that Alice may be experiencing in the group?

4. Why do you think Alice has been pulled into this particular role?