Understanding the role of self-awareness in family assessment
Understanding the role of self-awareness in family assessment and how cultural values influence beliefs and values about family membership and family functioning. Using the information on self-awareness in family assessment, discuss how your worldviews may differ from the worldviews of the client. In another paragraph discuss what the author means about Parent Management Training. There should be two paragraphs. One heading should be: Worldviews and the other heading should be Parent Management Training.
Understanding the role of self-awareness in family assessment
The need for counselors to recognize that how they view others, the world, and the counseling process is often a reflection of their own values, beliefs, and worldview. Stepping outside their myopic perspective is an essential skill for building cultural empathy and embracing diverse perspectives on health and healing. Recognizing the ubiquitous nature of culture (Sinacore et al., 2011), the uniqueness of each individual`s personal cultural identities, and the diversity of worldviews alerts counselors to attend actively to cultural distance-similarity (Gupta, 2017) in each client-counselor encounter. However, it is the responsibility of the counselor to forefront client beliefs, values, and assumptions and to actively challenge their own tendencies towards cultural encapsulation to avert stereotyping or imposition of their subjective lens on clients.
