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Multicultural Competence And Ethical Counseling Article Summary

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Ethics and counseling combined David Gary II Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center Summary of Article One This particular article, “Forging the Link Between Multicultural Competence and Ethical Counseling Practice: A Historical Perspective” portrays a very succinct history, how the influences of multiculturalism and the need for cultural diversity training found its’ habitation in our current code of ethics. Initially a brief recap of how the counseling profession came to be was given along with the establishment of the APGA in the 1960s to include the first code of ethics (Watson, Herlihy, and Pierce, 2006, p. 100). There is at first, according to the article, an atmosphere of a monoculture outlook (Watson, Herlihy, and Pierce, …show more content…

I was raised in a predominantly all-white background with parents that had white collar careers and my exposure to cultural diversities did not begin until I entered the military. From reading the title and abstract I expected to be able to get a better grasp of cultural diversity and how I can better serve clients fitting into those brackets, not just the history progressing from mono-culturalism to the diversification that we now have in our code of ethics. Expectations Met and Valuable …show more content…

However, I did notice that the field of counseling is portrayed as being closed off to minorities and governed mainly by the white male. I see this as different with the dealings that I have had in recent years and have noticed that the arena of counseling does seem to now have a more diversified milieu (i.e. women, gay, lesbian, Hispanics, and etc.). The article was published in 2006 and even at that period there was still a sundry of stigmatisms placed on minorities and gay & lesbian individuals. Since then there has been even more revisions to the code of ethics to ensure that diversities range over more than the pigment of skin but in all capacities. Also, concerning this article I would have liked to see more background information concerning other revisions leading up to the

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