ERIC Number: ED320048
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1988
Pages: 31
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Guidelines for a Cross-Cultural Counseling Course.
Vontress, Clemmont E.; Jackson, Morris L.
This document presents guidelines for planning and teaching a cross-cultural counseling course. Problems encountered in defining the culturally different are discussed. Ten minimum course objectives are presented and three ways that a professor may focus on the impact of culture on the counseling process and address the counseling relationship, diagnosis, intervention techniques, and follow-up are described. Twenty social science and counseling constructs are recommended as course content. These include alienation, cosmology, cultural anxiety, cultural cross-over, culture, group-centeredness versus individualism, historical hostility, modern versus traditional societies, oppressor versus oppressed, social class, autoplastic-alloplastic dilemma, countertransference, cultural encapsulation, cultural intuition, emic-etic distinction, empathy versus sympathy, transference, relative deviancy, introspection, and the therapeutic environment. Methods and procedures to promote the achievement of the objectives are advanced. The report concludes that in the near future all counselors will be expected to be able to serve a multi-cultural and multi-racial clientele. (NB)
Publication Type: Guides - Non-Classroom
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Audience: Teachers; Practitioners
Language: English
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