Roles And Mission Of The Counselor

In an effort to become a culturally aware counselor, Stephanie will want to become aware of her own assumptions, values, and bias (Sue & Sue, 2013). Counselors who have an awareness of this, are able to compare their world view with that of their client's and see how they can bridge the gap of understanding. Counselors should actively try to understand their clients worldview by asking questions about their clients cultural background, hopes, fears, and aspirations(2013), thus , gaining a better understanding of the client and who they are,enabling them to work with various clients despite the differences in backgrounds, race, gender, or culture.

On the issue of abortion with the 19-year old rape victim, I feel that she has a right to choose whether or not to go through with the abortion. As her counselor I have to put my personal feelings aside and help her to make the best decision for herself. My client is firm in her plans to have the abortion and since she is an adult her parents have no legal right to make her change her mind. I am unable to convince the parents to change their minds as they are not my clients and I have no input in how they feel. According to the ACA (2005) I must be sensitive to the family’s cultural beliefs and in the

There is no doubt that the counsellor needs to be aware of the complexity of culture (Pedersen & Ivey, 1993). Culture results from the interaction of a number of variables including ethnographic, demographic, socio-economic, and relational factors. Within a culture, people develop patterns of behaviours based on a number of assumptions they have learned either directly, observationally or vicariously (Mitchell & Krumboltz, 1996). People also develop a cultural identity by

Supervision can be a very foreign process to a mental health counselor when first starting their professional journey. In other professions supervision can mean addressing performance, administrative compliance and personnel concerns. In the field of mental health counseling the purpose of supervision is therapeutic and multifaceted. In order to explain the complexity of supervision for a mental health counselor it must be broken down into key areas. The first is the very definition of supervision.

According to Baruth & Manning 2012, "it is a counselors task to help these clients accept and value their culture and to help them resolve difficult conflicts that can impede personal and social growth (p.149). The counselor plays the role of consulting, teaching, and training when dealing with the Native American and Asian American communities.

I would like to express my gratitude for the wonderful interview opportunity for the Financial Aid Counselor position. I sincerely appreciate the experience and value the time you spent to provide me a quick departmental.

I would like to apply for a Counselors-in-Training position at Royal City Soccer Club to be a Counselor in the future, as I have found many interests while volunteering here last summer.

While reading this week’s assignment I contemplated issues the counseling profession may face in the future. After reading about multicultural awareness, one matter that came to mind was the increase number of gangs in the United States. According to the FBI, gangs contribute to about 48% of crime and include over 1.4 million American members as of 2011. With 33,000 gangs across America, counselors everywhere will be faced with people who are affected by gang related crime (FBI, 2014). How will we handle this gang war? This is a frightening issue in which I have no idea where to begin unraveling. What I do know is students in my school may be pressured to join a gang or already have. Being aware of these students

From my perspective, supervision is beneficial in many ways to the counselor-in-training. By being supervised, the counselor-in-training, will be able to receive some value feedback from an experience counselor, whom can help them learn how to improve certain techniques, their communication and nonverbal languages. It is very important for the counselor-in-training to follow the codes of ethics, because the counselor needs to be aware of their strengths and weakness in leading groups (Thomas and Panders, 2008). If a counselor is practicing beyond their scope of expertise than they might cause more harm to the group member or

With the diversifying population in America’s schools, a profession school counselor should be culturally competent to meet the needs of all students. “The transformed professional school counselor is culturally competent, respectful of human diversity, and a school leader in ensuring that oppressive systemic barriers to academic, career, college readiness, and personal/social development are removed (Erford, 2015, p. 173).” A school counselor needs to have a deep understanding of a variety of cultures to meet the personal, emotional, developmental needs of a student using individual and group interventions while being aware of their cultural and spiritual needs.

fought until the police came arrested him. The day he left a weight was lifted off our shoulders. We felt secure and safe that day, we no longer had to worried or fear leaving the house without our mother.

This paper will discuss the following 4 Core Functions of a Counselor: Case Management, Client Education, Crisis Intervention, Referral and their primary purposes.

Every day they kicked dirt in my face, and every day I came home filthy and broken. It seemed that I would never find happiness again, and I wondered to myself how could I get out of this funk? I became listless and began to dread each weekday I had to volunteer, and I began to ask myself: “Is this what I have to look forward to for the next fifty years of work?”

Counselors are sensitive to the cultural diversity of families and respect the inherent rights and responsibilities of parents/ guardians over the welfare of their children/ charges according to law. Counsellors work to establish, as appropriate, collaborative relationships with parents/ guardians to best serve clients.

As a potential counselor, there are different reasons why I choose this journey to be a helper, servant and a leader. Not only was my early experiences in life a stepping stone towards this path, but my faith in God and the realities of life led me as well. Even though I am still creating my future towards this goal, there is no doubt that I am called to be in servitude to others. In this journey, I am appreciating the learning fundamentals I have gained from the academic coursework, professionals/teachers and experience that I have encountered to be molded into a multicultural competent counselor. By taking advantage of this opportunity of learning, I have chosen a theoretical orientation that best suits me as a potential clinician according to my beliefs, values and logical thinking. It is also noteworthy to indicate that the self-awareness of my beliefs, values, interests and thought process has been further explored due to the assessments and activities of the Life Story Board, Meyer-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), Strong Interest Inventory (SII), My Career Story, and Career Genogram, including a reflection of my spiritual walk with Christ.