Walden University Addressing Multicultural Practice Discussion

Culture influences beliefs, attitudes, and perceptions across all  aspects of life, even professional ones. Within your own cultural  paradigm and worldview, it can sometimes be difficult to detect how  others’ cultures influence their behaviors and beliefs. Consider, for  instance, that you are working with a client that has been unemployed  for almost a year. The client has stopped actively looking for work.  From a cultural perspective, to what degree does the client’s cultural  group generally take more of a passive or active role regarding changing  their external environment? To what degree might the client feel  helpless in the face of past or active discrimination against his or her  cultural group? To what degree do the techniques you use in your work  with the client coincide with these cultural influences or locate  sources of control within the self, as is more common in Western  perspectives? Being self-aware of your own cultural paradigm as well as  educating yourself on how it may influence your interactions with  clients is an ethical imperative in psychological practice.