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As part of annual refresher training courses, I had the opportunity to attend a cultural competency based workshop and the main takeaway was that you don\u2019t need to understand every cultural and ethnic background; you need an open mind and understanding of the impacts of social determinants of health and cultural\/ethnic\/religious aspects that influence clients\u2019 access to services. This attitude encourages clients to self-identify issues and concerns and determine what types of supports are needed.<\/p>\n

While this is true for counsellors, I have often found that it\u2019s not as easy for clients, who might not have that open mind or understand where we as counsellors are coming from. They tend to gravitate to counsellors who look like them, speak like them and come from their background. So as frontline counsellors, I think it\u2019s equally important to educate and bring awareness to our clients, informing them about the counselling service, the frameworks and the professional competencies of the counsellors irrespective of the cultural background. While it\u2019s understandable that language might be a barrier but that can be overcome by using interpretation services. I think it\u2019s important that before we make culture and linguistic specific counsellor referrals, attempts should be made to debunk the misconceptions of \u2018you can\u2019t understand me because you don\u2019t know where I am coming from\u2019 perceptions of clients.<\/p>\n

I am wondering if anybody else has any thoughts around this-of trying to convince clients that no matter how we look like, what we speak\u2026as counsellors we listen to and speak the same language when it comes to delivering competent service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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