Career Counseling

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Career Counseling

• Multicultural Groups

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Introduction

• Role of School Counselor in addressing cultural
  issues is important
• Demographic are changing.
• Need a model for understanding cross-cultural
  issues

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Fischers Common Factors Perspective

• may serve as a framework for unifying the diverse
  body of multicultural counseling literature
• has some empirical research support
• may be useful in guiding future research in this
  area

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The Theory

• Etic approach - isolate and understand common
  factors
• Emic approach - supplement etic perspective with
  necessary contextual, and culture-specific
  knowledge

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Four Common Factors

• the therapeutic relationship
• shared worldview
• meeting client expectations
• use of appropriate ritual or intervention

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What do I need to Know

• therapeutic relationship
• shared worldview or plausible rationale for
  distress
• clients expectations will be raised
• to plan a healing procedure