Counseling approaches
Crisis intervention denotes the psychological care offered to help individuals confronted by situations that need restoration. Counseling approaches refer to models and techniques used to solve crises using the therapeutic processes; these models build and develop sturdy tools to approach problems and successfully solve them. Counseling approaches employed at racial, ethical as well national levels assist in promoting multicultural analysis. Multicultural approaches to counseling indicate that no method of questioning can be transferred from one group to another. Clients from varying racial groups require dissimilar treatments due to uniqueness, independence, and personal perceptions (James, 2008). Cognitive behavior therapy indicates that we should analyze situations depending on how we behave. Humanistic therapy solves crises through perceptions and personal responsibilities. Psychodynamic therapy indicates that conflicts arise due to unconscious relations.
Mistake
Crisis interventionists in their duties may make mistakes. A common mistake would be to believe that all persons come to terms within their own community or tribal group before interventions occur. Therefore, crisis interventionists should avoid making prejudgments or assumptions before careful analysis of the matter (Sandoval, 2013). They should not assume that individuals react the same way to certain situations depending on tribal, communal, or any social group. Confinement of interferences into groups only spoils the process and results in failure. Hence, crisis interventionists should always try to tilt situations in the best way possible to improve understanding of perceptions in cultural and general aspects. This will involve personalizing the crisis and solving issues from an individual’s point of view rather than on a community basis.
Multicultural view
A focused multicultural outlook considers multicultural counseling relative to visible as well as ethnic minorities, which involves a number of models and approaches. In this case, multicultural counseling proficiencies work best if integrated with the interventionists’ models. This view indicates that a successful counselor is aware and acutely understands the cultural backgrounds, practices, and beliefs to help him or she develop quality and effective intervention strategies (James, 2008). This involves understanding the individual’s race, habits, and ways of life to develop the correct view of the person’s emotional disturbances for successful interventions.
A high-context culture
Culture refers to values and practices exercised by a definite group of people; thinking, behaviors and beliefs that define who is from a given group. A high context culture connects an individual to a particular group due to relations and affiliations created amongst persons (Croucher et al., 2012). Cultural affiliations are enhanced by behavioral aspects in groups and are created by unity and associations in functional groups. However, an individual fits in a group only to the extent of self-belief and esteem as well as respect for others. Group members are attached to ethnicity entirely since social restrictions are inflexible and long-term.
Ecology
Cultural ecology is significant due to its position in the determination of customs and emotional pressure within social groups. Cultural ecology may be necessary for handling group conflicts and crises in respect to varying cultures. Conversely, in an individual’s perspective, cultural ecology plays an insignificant role in solving crisis (Sandoval, 2013). Ecology and culture are diverse in their relational aspects and only interact based on level of composition. Variations in the ecological views of crisis interventions are raised by changing environments in cultural diversities and reliability of cultural approaches to diverse situations; hence, the cultural environment does not determine solutions to crises.
References
Croucher, S. M., Bruno, A., McGrath, P., Adams, C., McGahan, C., Suits, A., & Huckins, A. (2012). Conflict Styles and High–Low Context Cultures: A Cross-Cultural Extension. Communication Research Reports, 29(1), 64-73.
James, R. (2008). Crisis intervention strategies. (6th ed.). Belmont, CA: Brooks/Cole Cengage Learning.
Sandoval, J. (2013). Crisis counseling, intervention and prevention in the schools. (Ed.). London: Routledge.