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Culturally Alert Counseling DVD
Working With Latino/Latina Clients
August 2008 | SAGE Publications, Inc
Culturally Alert Counseling: Working with Latino/Latina Clients:
Latino/Latina clients share many characteristics, while, of course, being diverse among themselves. In this video, a White female counselor works with a Latino/Latina couple with alertness to some issues common to traditional Latino/Latina culture. The counselor sensitively accounts for cultural dimensions such as familismo, respeto, simpatia, and defined gender roles in this session. The video illustrates such culturally alert counseling skills that might be important in working with Latino/Latina clients such as focusing on the present, taking a problem-solving orientation, including family in the process, acknowledging the family hierarchy, and adapting language. The session uses graphics and narrative voiceover to teach counselors to be effective with Latino/Latina clients. By viewing the session in its entirety, students and clinicians will benefit from seeing first hand how the counselor managed the session and used opportunities to deepen the therapeutic relationship. By viewing the session in its entirety, students and clinicians will benefit from seeing first-hand how the counselor managed the session and used opportunities to deepen the therapeutic relationship.
Latino/Latina clients share many characteristics, while, of course, being diverse among themselves. In this video, a White female counselor works with a Latino/Latina couple with alertness to some issues common to traditional Latino/Latina culture. The counselor sensitively accounts for cultural dimensions such as familismo, respeto, simpatia, and defined gender roles in this session. The video illustrates such culturally alert counseling skills that might be important in working with Latino/Latina clients such as focusing on the present, taking a problem-solving orientation, including family in the process, acknowledging the family hierarchy, and adapting language. The session uses graphics and narrative voiceover to teach counselors to be effective with Latino/Latina clients. By viewing the session in its entirety, students and clinicians will benefit from seeing first hand how the counselor managed the session and used opportunities to deepen the therapeutic relationship. By viewing the session in its entirety, students and clinicians will benefit from seeing first-hand how the counselor managed the session and used opportunities to deepen the therapeutic relationship.