Multicultural counselors often face a moral dilemma: should they follow the ethical guidelines of their professional counseling organization at the expense of a client or take the appropriate action while bending official standards?Ethics in a Multicultural Context provides strategies for critical decision making in multicultural settings. Utilizing extensive case studies, authors Sherlon P. Pack-Brown and Carmen Braun Williams present a comprehensive exploration of counseling ethics in a cultural context. Examining the implications and consequences of competent multicultural counseling, they present ethical dilemmas arising in face-to-face counseling interactions, supervisory relationships, and educational situations.By placing ethical issues in a cultural context, this inclusive volume provides readers with the practical tools to address complex questions such asAre dual relationships ethical?How do you handle unintentional cultural bias?Can you barter for counseling services?How do you manage a client’s welfare?Does counseling foster dependence?What are the boundaries of competence? Ethics in a Multicultural Context encourages critical thinking rather than passive acceptance. The authors identify culturally troublesome issues, encourage culturally appropriate interpretations of existing ethical guidelines, and promote ethical behavior in multicultural contexts.encourages critical thinking rather than passive acceptance. The authors identify culturally troublesome issues, encourage culturally appropriate interpretations of existing ethical guidelines, and promote ethical behavior in multicultural contexts. Designed for students and educators in counselor education and counseling psychology programs, this book is also an essential guide for social workers, psychologists, and health professionals who work in multicultural environments.

Awareness: The First Stage of Ethical Thinking in a Multicultural Context

Awareness: The first stage of ethical thinking in a multicultural context

Counseling has frequently erred in assuming that if a test, a book, or concept is accurately translated in terms of its content, the translated tool will be effective and appropriate. Consequently, in translating, it is important to change not just the content of a message for counseling but also the way of thinking through which the message is being expressed. Although counselors spend considerable time making sure that the content of their messages is culturally appropriate, they spend less time adapting the underlying way of thinking behind the translated message.

—Pedersen (1987, p. 22)

The task facing practitioners and practitioners-in-training aspiring toward cultural competence in their ...

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