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getting to know people different from you in a personal way
Awareness, Knowledge, Skills, and Action for Multicultural Competence
5. According to the authors, if your first helping lead seems to be ineffective with a culturally different client, you need to
be ready to
explain what you are doing and try again.
say it again, but using different, clearer words.
try another helping lead.
try silence, as perhaps this client needs time to think and respond.
Awareness, Knowledge, Skills, and Action for Multicultural Competence
6. Microaggressions___________________________________.
are large and small insults and slights
can produce negative physical and mental health concerns
are damaging through repetition
Awareness, Knowledge, Skills, and Action for Multicultural Competence
7. Mark Pope, Cherokee Nation and Past-President of the American Counseling Association noted all but one of the
following:
Counselors are now being trained fully to meet multicultural competencies.
We are all committed to the dignity and value of each individual.
Each of us is a multicultural being.
We need to address our own issues of prejudice.
Awareness, Knowledge, Skills, and Action for Multicultural Competence