Cultural Competence In Counseling

For counselors to have a good sense of worldview with elementary children they need to understand the world, including attitudes, values, opinions, and concepts that influence how people of different cultures a person thinks, makes decisions, and behaves. When working with kids counselors should involve their families. How a family influence career decision making of its members is related to culturally specific factors. Exploring the relationship between cultural diversity and family influence helps counselors to understand the uniqueness of all clients. It is important that counselors are culturally competent and sensitive to those of diverse cultures. They need to be aware of stereotypes beliefs and be open-minded when counselong.
Counselors should be aware of the challenges that may come with working with children of diverse backgrounds. Some challenges may include communication barrier, misunderstanding the client's culture, making assumptions about the client and their culture, misunderstanding their social and cultural values and beleifs, making stereotypical generalizations and assumptions of cultural bias, and failing to understand the
Before counselors start working with culturally diverse clients they can partake in training that promotes awareness of culturally learned attitudes, beliefs, values, and teaches skills for interventions that are culturally appropriate for all clients.
There are many ways counselors can involve parents or community members in elementary school career counseling. One fun ways is to set up a career activities for the families and the kids. One popular integration of families and career exploration is “career day”. This is when parents come to their child’s classroom and discuss their career with the students. Counselors can have a career night, inviting parents to participate in activities. A career workshop might be a good idea for parents to be