Multicultural Self Analysis

Self-Assessment on Multicultural Awareness
I completed the Multicultural Self-Assessment and learned that their must another me. Based on my answers that I completed for each section, I had 22 number twos’ and 19 number threes’. I am constantly aware that I can always improve on being more conscious and sensitive to the many different cultures around me. My family immigrated to the United States when I was very young. Even at my young age, I can remember my first reactions to the new people and environment I was brought into. I learned many things about being in a different culture and the many different people within the new culture. Not only did I lean how to be around the African American culture, which I had never seen before, but I also had to learn to be around the American Caucasian culture. With the help of my parents and
many understanding people, I was taught from an early age that the world is filled with different types of people and I can learn many things from each of them. I learned to make friends easy and accept everyone without judgement. The only judgement I had was on a case by case situation. It did not matter from what nationality someone was, I learned that it was how they treated me that made the difference. I realized that I did not rate myself high because I know that I am always learning and that there are always things to improve on. One of those areas that I rated myself as being competent in and rated a two on each question was the knowledge section of the counselor’s awareness of client’s worldview.
As a professional working in the mental health field, I am aware that our emotions are continuously changing when we encounter other racial and ethnic groups. We may have a positive or negative reaction with different people within the same culture. I am always aware that my emotions will vary and I will need to be aware of those emotions to work on them. The second area within the same section that I scored the lowest was the area of self-esteem and self-concepts when dealing with immigration issues, poverty, racism, stereotyping, and powerlessness. I do realize that each person deals with these differently, and it impacts their self-esteem and self-concept differently. I was fortunate to have positive role models in my transition into my new culture and I now realize that this impacted me positively. I do need to remember that many people in different cultures do not have that positive environment and their self-esteem and self-concept is not
developed. Once I looked over the multicultural self-assessment ratings I gave myself, I realized that it is a handy tool to show one’s weakness and one’s strong areas when dealing with clients. We as counselors will deal with different culture’s more since people are able to move more from country to country. We do need to me more aware of those cultures and how we must be able to fulfill the right outcome for our clients without judgement or bias. I consider this to be one learning tool that I can refer to improve on how I interact and treat my clients. I realize that I am in a profession that I will continue to learn about people and where they come from. The more knowledge I have of their culture, and being open minded towards a person that has different beliefs and culture, I will be able to help that person