Personal Philosophy Paper

Personal Philosophy Paper Instructions

 Write a 4 page paper explaining your personal philosophy and model for counseling culturally diverse clients.

 To achieve maximum points for content and analysis, the following elements need to be thoroughly addressed:

o Why is it important for a counselor to be culturally competent?
o The use of the tripartite framework in counseling the individual.
o Ways to avoid or manage forms of microagression.
o Strategies to overcome barriers to counseling culturally diverse clients.
o Specific ways that you plan to communicate across cultures.
o How you would employ Multicultural Family Therapy in your ministry.
o What ways that you can discern the use of alternative means of therapy (non-Western).
o How you would approach counseling a client of a culture not your own? How might the Racial/Cultural Identity Development Model help?
o Universal practices for counseling.
o Any examples of culturally specific practices that may assist the counseling process.
o Where can you get other resources for counseling culturally diverse clients? List at least five resources.
o Concluding paragraph on how the learning concepts from this course might affect your ministry.