COUNSELING

Working with Culturally Dissimilar Clients in Counseling

Otis Magee Jr.

Walden University

Working with Culturally Dissimilar Clients in Counseling

Introduction

Cross-Cultural Counseling refers to the differences between clients on cultural values, background, and lifestyle in counseling relationship (Sue & Sue, 2008). Counseling practitioners, educators, and researchers pursue a vast array of professional topics to discover effective methods for counseling culturally different people.

Social psychological theories highlight the client preferences concept in context of cross-cultural counseling. This presents the natural tendency of people to associate themselves on the basis of social situations and cultural similarities (Sue & Sue, 2008). Social desirability, racial identity development theories defines the ...