Needs Of Latinx First-Generation College Students: Article Analysis

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American Counseling Association (ACA) stated that ‘Counseling is a professional relationship that empowers individuals, families and groups to accomplish mental health, education and career goals.’ Most of the people will face a lot of encounters throughout their life which need some inspiration, advice, support or counseling. Moreover people that have some problems like depression, mental and behavior health most likely use counseling to help them stand on their feet back to achieve goals that stunted before. Counselor is a person that trained to help the people who need help in their problem and focus them on healing. The task to be a counselor is quite challenging as it will take years and lot of dedication just to help people to enjoy their life.
The article entitled ‘The Role of High School and College Counselors in Supporting the Psychosocial and Emotional Needs of Latinx First – Generation College Students’ brings out how the problem that faced by the first generation college students of Latinx and what the counselors do in guiding them through and move forward in their life regret. There are some of the strengths of role of high school and college counselor in supporting the needs of Latinx in aspects of psychosocial and emotional.
One of them is helping to grow the college admission of discriminated groups in higher education …show more content…

Through study by Cavazos, Johnson and Sparrow in 2010 stated that coping strategies of the responses equal to on the culture of the Latinx. Based on the study too, the respondents use coping strategies like positive reconstruct like being affectionate to each other, stay positive and optimistic which some of them are not truly align with other culture but some of them have similar characteristics to ‘fatalismo’ and