Ethical Standards for Cross‐Cultural Counseling: Counselor Preparation, Practice, Assessment, and Research

Forging the Link Between Multicultural Competence and Ethical Counseling Practice: A Historical Perspective

“…This special issue included a section on cross-cultural concerns in which Casas, Ponterotto, and Gutierrez (1986) identified an "urgent need to revamp the [ethical standards] to address racial and ethnic minorities explicitly" (p. 348). In the same issue, Ibrahim and Arredondo (1986) recommended that the existing code be extended to address cross-cultural dimensions of counseling and proposed for inclusion in the next revision of the code eight new standards in the areas of counselor preparation, counseling practice, assessment, and research.…”

Cultural competency in genetic counseling

“…Cross-cultural competency of counselors has been based on the acquisition of knowledge, awareness of beliefs and attitudes, and skills of: (1) social, cultural, and institutional barriers that restrict utilization of services; (2) the socio-political context of worldviews; (3) the counselor's own worldview and how his or her values and biases may influence clients; (4) valuing and acknowledging cultural differences; (5) particular knowledge of a group membership(s) he or she may be working within the context of within group variation; (6) general knowledge and understanding of counseling; (7) sending and receiving verbal and nonverbal communications accurately and appropriately (American Psychological Association, 1991;Carney and Kahn, 1984;Casas, Ponterotto, and Gutierrez, 1986;Ibrahim and Arredondo, 1986;Ponterotto and Casas, 1991;Sue, Arrendondo, and McDavis, 1992;Sue, Bernier, Durran, Feinberg, Pedersen, Smith, and Vasquez-Nuttal, 1982;and (8) understanding racial-cultural identity models (Ponterotto and Casas, 1991).…”

“…The theoretical underpinning and organization of the Handbook of Cross-Cultural Genetic Counseling is based on the conventional cultural competencies outlined by the Education and Training Committee of the Division of Counseling Psychology of the American Psychological Association (Sue et al, 1982) and others (Ibrahim and Arredondo, 1986;Ponterotto and Casas, 1991)…”

Ethics, Violence, and Counseling: Hear No Evil, See No Evil, Speak No Evil?

“…Casas, Ponterotto, and Gutierrez (1986), Cayleff (1986), Ibrahim and Arredondo (1986), and Goodyear and Sinnett (1984) have all addressed the ethical implications of working with clients who are of a different race, sex, social class, culture, or sexual orientation when the counselor lacks the knowledge or skills about or has a basic misunderstanding of these populations. These differences "must be considered, understood, and honored to prevent doing harm, serve the client's welfare, respect autonomous principles, and ultimately to provide effective counseling" (Cayleff, 1986, p. 346): SUMMARY The information that has been provided in this article clearly illustrates that counselors are increasingly being forced to make difficult judgment calls relating to degrees of client dangerousness and are being held legally liable for not taking reasonable steps to protect the third person(s) from threatened harm.…”