Counselors have a significant role to play in helping Afghan refugees and U.S. veterans as they face several challenges and conflicting emotions after the U.S.’s sudden withdrawal from Afghanistan this past summer.
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Counselors must understand that relationship boundaries considered ‘healthy’ by the dominant culture in the U.S. don’t automatically apply to immigrant and bicultural clients.
The potential effectiveness of counseling is minimized when these clients’ varied and diverse experiences are overlooked or disregarded in the process of addressing presenting problems.
To establish culturally responsive care, counselors must consider both the macro-level political stress that is causing these students harm and the micro-level challenges that affect their psychological well-being.
Despite its emphasis on cultural competency, the counseling profession faces a daunting challenge in trying to meet the fast-growing demand for bilingual and bicultural services.
For many immigrants, both their journey to and their experiences in the United States can be traumatizing, but they are unlikely to access help from counselors unless counselors themselves work to mitigate some of the barriers.
Because immigrants often feel like they are straddling two worlds — their origin country and their new one — identity development is complex and critical for this population.
To work with immigrant and refugee populations more effectively, it is important to understand that discussing political issues with these clients can have a positive impact in their lives.
An activist is a person who campaigns and takes action for social change. Counselors are often activists for their clients and for their profession by nature of being in a helping field. The issue of self-care looms for both counselor practitioners and counselor educators as we face difficult client issues,
We are living through a historic era that many people describe as divisive, polarizing and disheartening. The world of social media never sleeps, and we are bombarded with images of pain and strife. The visible presence of neo-Nazi groups marching, the increase in arrests and deportations of immigrants from sanctuary