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Cross-Cultural Counseling

The purpose of this research is to examine the counseling process in cross-cultural counseling. Views are presented for both sides of the issue. Although some educators feel the clients suffer articles are cited with evidence that this is not necessarily true. Problems occur in counseling minority students because it is difficult to establish a rapport. There are racial and cultural attitudes that the client and counselor bring to the relationship. If these ethnic and cultural attitudes are not clearly understood barriers develop which impede the counseling process.

The rapport established in the counseling process is the line of communication that must be maintained. The difficulties that arise when a white counselor is working with a black counselee stem from the separate status that has caused blacks and whites to develop unique approaches to dealing with their environment. The perceptual distortions and hostility contribute to barriers in the counseling relationship.

Minorities are so disadvantaged that when one of them has succeeded he is suspected by members of his own racial and ethnic group (Vontress, 1973, 7). Minorities believe the achiever must have collaborated with the enemy to have succeeded. They are also consumed with envy because they have not succeeded. This ambivalence is magnified when the minority group suffers from self-hatred. In a black-black counseling dyad, the client's ambivalence and self-hatred must be considered. The self-hatred can cause each to reject the other which helps to explain why white counselors may be more effective in counseling some black counselees.

To help establish rapport with minority group members, especially ones who have not experienced much contact with members of the dominant cultural group the counselor should avoid extremes in behavior. He should refrain from over or under dressing. Native Americans are suspicious of people asking too many questions. Cou...

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