Understanding Multicultural Competence in Counseling Ethics
School
Carlos Albizu University**We aren't endorsed by this school
Course
PSYCHOLOGY 319 A
Subject
Philosophy
Date
Dec 11, 2024
Pages
2
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1Ethical Vignette AssignmentMulticultural competence is a highly demanded virtue in healthcare and psychology. Stubbe (2020) define the concept as the personal attributes and skills required to appreciate, understand, and interactive with people from diverse belief and cultural systems. Any deviation of multicultural competency is a violation of ethics. ACA Codes of Ethics, section B.1. (a) on multicultural diversity consideration demands counselors to always maintain the sensitivity and awareness regarding cultural meanings of privacy and confidentiality. It is paramount for counselors to respect differing and rights of people from diverse communities, more so in the disclosure of information. In the case study, Maurice, a counselor or a trained psychoanalytic therapist, finds himself violating ethical codes on multicultural issues. Part of multicultural competence is to respect the beliefs and cultural systems of various people. The client is a Chinese by origin. One of the belief systems in the client’s family, and perhaps a cultural system,is siblings continuing with the jobs designed by the parents. In the case study, the parents own a large accounting firm and they expected Ling, the client, to take over the business. Maurice violated the ethics regarding cultural competence by advising against the wishes of the family and to an extent, changing the perspective of Ling, who had decided to go with the views of the parents. This is an ethical conduct bordering on cultural disrespect. The three violated cultural competencies are; counselor awareness of client’s worldview, counselor awareness of own cultural values and biases, and culturally appropriate intervention strategies. It is important for Maurice to have the right attitudes towards other cultures, in this case the Chinese culture and beliefs, and not to have biases towards other cultures. Reference
2Stubbe, D. E. (2019). Practicing cultural competence and cultural humility in the care of diverse patients. Focus: Journal of Life Long Learning in Psychiatry, 18(1), 49-51. https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.focus.20190041