Part A: Reflection 1) There are varieties of transitory commonplace interactions and environmental indignities that cast disparaging significances to marginalized clients that may occur in the clinical counseling practice by culturally inept therapists. Microaggressions such as; ascription of intelligence, colorblindness, or the myth of meritocracy, to name a few, have had detrimental …show more content…
When a counselor in power only believes in the Western ideology of individualism and that everyone can just “pull themselves up by their own bootstraps, he/she demeans the value and the Eastern culture of collectivism. I myself had to process the fact that I believed that independence and individuality was the ideal and I lessened the impact that collectivism had on a client. Thus, as I took more classes my eyes were opened to the fact of how beneficial a collective society is for some individuals. As counselors, we must understand how culture affects the expression of emotions and cognitions and realize that one’s own worldview is not the only suitable world view for a healthy