Counseling approaches operating racial, ethnic, and national lines promote multicultural view
s through promoting mutual respect of patients to other races, ethnic backgrounds, and nationalities. This type of counseling helps in getting rid of stereotypes that affect the multicultural view and approaches of patients. Stereotypes affect the ability of people to make multicultural relations. It forms the basis for differences that persist between cultures and ethnic relations. Multicultural view augments through improved communication ability from counseling based on ethnic, racial, and national lines.
Crisis intervention classic mistake
Believing that all individuals reach a consensus before intervention affects the ability of the interventionist to bring parties into consensus, intercultural differences make the ability of individuals to reach a consensus within their community, tribe, or clan relative (Aday, 1994). It is, therefore, imperative that the interventionist has an open mind that leads to individuals not coming into consensus. The main reason for the assertion is that not all cultures allow resolutions to be made before intervention. Believing that individuals have reached a resolution before intervention jeopardizes the reason for the intervention and influences the inability of reaching an amicable solution.
Focused multicultural view
A focused multicultural view entails basing multicultural views on visible, racial, and ethnic minorities. Therefore, it helps in detaching the negative image of the minority groups. Additionally, this also allows the expansion of human relations with other cultures as the negative image barrier vanishes. Focusing on racial and ethnic minorities aids in giving the minority a voice to base on their positive achievements rather than having a negative self-image that affects the way they relate with others. The focus on minority groups is affected mostly by negative classification and there could be a feeling of lack of ethnic identity, hence a focused multicultural view has to base on visible and racial ethnic minorities.
High-context cultures
High-context cultures determine an individual’s position in a given group. It defines how the individual relates to others, and there is a portrayal of unspoken cues. This presence of relation rules determines the position of the individual in high-context cultures. There is the presence of a long-term relation in high-context cultures; there are authoritative figures that determine the ties, and the relation an individual has to the group (Healey, 2006).
Ecology of culture in crisis resolution
Cultural ecology entails adaptation of humans to physical and social environments. It has a great effect on crisis resolution. Cultural ecology mainly aids in the need to adapt to changing environmental conditions for survival and development. Despite of Cultural ecology being an important aspect in the resolution of crisis, its impact is limited due to the influence of other factors that affect how crises are resolved (Healey, 2006).
Culture in crisis resolution determines the expression of diverse individuals on the situations, their interpretation, and their reactions (Bridget & Polak, 2003). It is, therefore, important to consider the cultural perspective despite of it playing a less significant role in crisis resolution. Culture also helps in understanding the diverse needs of participants from different cultural backgrounds, beliefs, and assumptions (Bridget & Polak, 2003). The main factors that come before culture in terms of importance in crisis resolution include relationship between the individuals, origin of the crisis and social systems involved among other influences.
References
Aday, L. (1994). Health status of vulnerable populations. Annual Review of Public Health, 15487–509.509.
Bridget, C. & Polak, P. (2003). Social systems intervention and crisis resolution. Advances in Psychiatric Treatment. 9: 424-431.
Healey, J. (2006). Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Class: The Sociology of Group Conflict and Change. California: Pine Forge Press.