Journal Article

Getting Comfortable with Discomfort: Preparing Counselor Trainees to Broach Racial, Ethnic, and Cultural Factors with Clients during Counseling

Steen, Sam, Day-Vines, Norma L, Beverly Booker Ammah, Arnold, Kristy M

2018

Overview

Counselors’ considerations of racial and cultural factors in the lives and experiences of clients enhances counseling outcomes. Acknowledgement of cultural factors enhances counselor credibility, client satisfaction, and the depth of client disclosure. This article opens with an overview of the Continuum of Broaching Behavior (Day-Vines et al. 2007), continues with a case illustration that enumerates categories along the continuum, provides empirical support for the continuum, and closes with a set of instructional strategies for counselor educators to infuse within a multicultural counseling course.

• Publisher: Springer Nature B.V
• Subject: Client satisfaction / Coping / Counseling / Counseling Effectiveness / Counselor Client Relationship / Counselor education / Counselor Educators / Counselor Training / Counselors / Credibility / Cultural factors / Cultural Influences / Discomfort / Educational Methods / Educational Strategies / Ethnic Groups / Ethnicity / Family (Sociological Unit) / Group Membership / Illustrations / Immigration / Learning Activities / Minority Groups / Multicultural counseling / Multiculturalism & pluralism / Race / Resilience (Psychology) / Satisfaction / School Counseling / Teachers / Teaching Methods / Trainees