Addressing Clients Prejudice in Counseling
ANSWER EACH QUESTION WITH 150 WORDS EACH AND USE AT LEAST ONE SCHOLARLY SOURCE FOR EACH QUESTION.
DQ1. How do racial, social, political, and religious attitudes affect the counselor’s perception and treatment of clients? How could the Christian worldview/chosen religious beliefs help with providing treatment to diverse populations?
DQ2. Explain how mental health and addiction therapy are viewed in various cultures. Give at least two examples.
DQ1.
Although clinicians tend to rely more on their experiences and education when dealing with clients, biases based on racial, social, political, and religious attitudes influence the counselor’s decision making. Such factors affect how people perceive different illnesses and this is extended even when seeking for clinical attention (Breland-Noble & Miranda, 2017). In other words, some counselors may have to change their way of treatment when handling some patients depending on the ideas they give concerning their beliefs as associated with certain illnesses (Breland-Noble & Miranda, 2017). 